Alison Hall

WHO WANTS TO CANCEL A SPEAKER CONTRACT? In early February, one of the lesser-known speakers in the portfolio of Speak Inc., a speakers bureau in San Diego, Calif., called the bureau to predict that his star was about...

"Another day, another dot-com press conference." So Tom Flanagan quipped in April at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York. Flanagan, vice president of marketing for Philadelphia-based StarCite (www.starcite.com)...

Free Computers--and a New Partnership "Another day, another dot-com press conference." So Tom Flanagan quipped in April at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York. Flanagan, vice president of marketing for...

In January, at the Meeting Professionals International Professional Education Conference (PEC) at Nashville's Opryland Hotel, MPI Chairman Ed Simeone, CMP, continued a theme that he introduced at MPI's World Education...

The partnership of site selection firm HelmsBriscoe and online meeting management firm StarCite pairs two fast companies to create a new business model--"bricks and clicks," in the words of Roger Helms, HB president...

Even if you don't believe that "business is combat," a stage full of fighter pilots will convince you that their tools can teach your employees to work better--and, more important, can make them want to. "Every...

Who better to talk about balance between work and family than someone who lives it? In January, at MPI's Professional Education Conference (PEC) at Nashville's Opryland Hotel, Chairman Ed Simeone, CMP, was joined...

Continuing a theme--balance--that he introduced at the Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Philadelphia last summer, MPI Chairman Ed Simeone, CMP, brought his wife, Joy, and children...