Marketing guru and author Seth Godin offers a one-page PDF that will give nonprofits a good introduction to what Web 2.0 can do for them. Click here to download.
An electrical fire at the Marco Island Marriott Resort on January 29 caused an evacuation, injury to an outside contractor who had been working on the system, and a power loss, but ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership’s Great Ideas...
Technology, shifting social values, the new consumer, and demographic shifts are the four trends that will shape the meetings industry in the future, according to Peter Yesawich, chief executive officer, Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown, and Russell...
There's no question that strategic meeting management is no longer just the purview of a handful of Fortune 500 companies with large, centralized meeting departments. In Meeting Professionals International's 2007 Futurewatch survey, presented at...
Ethics will be on the agenda at the MeetNow! 2007 Joint Educational Conference of the WestFieldand Connecticut River Valley Chapters of Meeting Professionals International, to be held February 22-23 at the Omni New Haven Hotel in New Haven, Conn....
“This industry cares more about security than any,” said Roger Dow, president and CEO, Travel Industry Association of America. ”We saw our industry brought to its knees after 9/11. So it’s about getting back to balance. We can put a wall around...
According to a recent study conducted by PKF Hospitality Research in conjunction with Convention South magazine, 64 percent of meeting planners are planning the same number of meetings in 2007 as they did last year, but they expect greater...
The U.S. Senate passed a measure last week that bans most lobbyist-paid travel for lawmakers, but provides allowances for travel to meetings and conventions. The bill will become law once it’s approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, which...
