The International Association of Conference Centers’ Thought Leader Summit on Conference Technology convenes in downtown Chicago on March 24, and meeting professionals are invited to watch a live stream of the event, free of charge...
For the first time, Affordable Meetings Mid-America, the annual conference and exposition sponsored by Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International, will offer three distinct educational program tracks...
Association executives are showing increased optimism in the financial performance of their organizations, according to a study released March 9 by ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership...
Hard to believe that 2010 is in full swing. (Wasn’t it just the holidays?) Lots on the plate for this column: cool search ideas, a few industry tech tidbits (would those be techbits?), and a bit of social media, too...
It’s not often that an article about a religious meeting, appears in the trade journal Advertising Age. But it’s not every day that a religious ad wins a major advertising award and a virtual religious event wows the Internet...
More than broadcasters were interested in the National Religious Broadcasters 2010 Convention and Exposition, held February 27-March 2 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, Tenn...
A bridal show that was supposed to have taken place this past weekend, March 5–7, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, turned out to be a scam and is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to an article in the ...
Earlier this year, Destination Marketing Association International launched empowerMINT.com, a new Web site that allows meeting professionals to shop for and compare meeting destinations through a new user-friendly search tool. By filling out a...
Being a lightning rod gives one a heady, slightly edgy sensation. After last week’s column, I had an almost physical sense of the energy flowing through the MeetingsNet Web site, as colleagues debated the merits of a conference keynote who was...
Comdex lives again. The computer industry trade show that launched in 1979 and grew to be one of the largest expositions in the world before being canceled in 2003 has been reimagined as a virtual show.
The Everything Channel, a Framingham, Mass...
