Are you using your corporate events to lay out the company’s plans for the year ahead? While broadcasting information to customers and teams was once a prime objective for in-person meetings, it now makes no sense to waste your meeting doing some...
Sitting for the Convention Industry Council’s Certified Meeting Professional designation is not cheap in terms of time or fees, but is it worthwhile? Results from the Professional Convention Management Association’s 2016 annual salary survey find...
In some circles, associations are generally viewed as being slow movers. They’re strengths skew towards protecting the status quo, valuing the past, and advocacy...
Pay it forward by spending some time today responding to an important green meetings survey. The Green Meeting Industry Council has commissioned a major study of sustainability practices, which is being conducted by Dr. Dina Zemke and Dr. Yen-Soo...
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Mike McAllen with Grass Shack Events and Media sits down with Steven Wickel, founder of the Future of Events Conference, which is coming August 22–24 In RAI...
Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and magician, blew my mind a little with this article on Medium on how technology is being used to influence our decisions without us even realizing it. And as I was reading, I couldn’t help but thi...
The sustainable Hotel at Oberlin opened in May.The Hotel at Oberlin made its debut in mid May with bragging rights as one of the most environmentally sustainable hotel projects in the country. Located about 35 miles west of Cleveland in the colle...
How can meeting planners create the kind of top-notch collateral that attendees have grown accustomed to while keeping a lid on ever-tighter budgets? In the past, complex and expensive four-color off-set printing was reserved for only the biggest...
