At the American Society of Association Executives Annual Conference and Exhibition, held in August in Detroit, I went to a great learning lab session about disruptive developments that could affect future meetings. Key among the disrupters discus...
Rendering of Colorado Convention Center expansionThis week, Denver voters were asked to extend the current 1.75 percent visitors tax on hotel rooms and car rentals in order to fund an expansion of the Colorado Convention Center, an upgrade of the...
Keynoter Rick SmolanASAE, the American Society of Association Executives, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Technology Conference & Expo, which is scheduled for December 15–16 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National...
Social media users tend to fall in one of two camps: Those who love it when their friends post pictures of their meals, and those whose friends don’t know how to take good food pictures.
Okay, I jest. Social media—and, in this case, Instag...
The Federal Communications Commission plans a $718,000 fine against electrical contracting company M.C. Dean for blocking consumers’ Wi-Fi connections at the Baltimore Convention Center. The same day it announced this action, November 2, the...
Meeting Professionals International has purchased the assets of Plan Your Meetings, an Atlanta-based privately owned educational and networking resources company that produces live meetings and events, a meeting planning guide, and digital meetin...
Penton, a professional information services company and parent of MeetingsNet, continues to strengthen its hand as an event producer with its third acquisition of the year.
The company has just announced the purchase of London-based media and ...
Her version of Stevie Wonder's Superstition won Lauren Blocker the grand prize at a talent show held during IMEX America this year.One of the things I really enjoyed at Cvent Connect this year was that they used homegrown talent—the company’s own...
