BMI Expands License Pact Broadcast Music Inc. announced that it will expand its music license agreement with the meetings and trade show industries by including meeting management companies in the pact. The agreement now allows association or show...
"We felt emboldened to move more quickly, to accelerate our plan for an Internet presence," says Perry Reynolds, director of marketing and trade development for National Housewares Manufacturers Association in Chicago...
In what is by far the largest pledge of venture capital to an Internet-based company targeting the meeting industry, investors signed a deal giving PlanSoft $24 million, bringing the Cleveland-based company's total invested capital to $40 million...
Fast Company, one of the hottest new business magazines in recent years, positions itself as "the handbook of the business revolution," one that focuses on the "growing community of people committed to new ways of working, competing, living, and...
When James H. Gilmore spoke at Meeting Professionals International's 1999 World Education Congress, he challenged attendees to turn meetings into experiences by using the language of theater as an operating model. Co-author with Joseph Pine of The...
The hotel is completing an $85 million redesign, including a new front entrance and lobby for speedier check-in, two new floors of meeting rooms, two new restaurants, new lounge, and new bar...
E-Commerce Headlines at IAEM People come to meetings "hungry for new ideas, new ways to understand a world that is going haywire," remarked keynote speaker William Taylor, co-founder and editor of Fast Company magazine, at the annual meeting of...
Throw out your meeting facility guides and dusty stacks of hotel brochures. Forget about faxing or overnight mailing your request for proposals directly to hotels. These methods of finding and booking meeting facilities are rapidly giving way to...
