Tool Time: Here Comes Visual Search, and More
Mar 10, 2010
Hard to believe that 2010 is in full swing. (Wasn’t it just the holidays?) Lots on the plate for this column: cool search ideas, a few industry tech tidbits (would those be techbits?), and a bit of social media, too...
Time Out with … Jennifer Squeglia
Time Out with … Jennifer Squeglia
Mar 09, 2010
Jennifer Squeglia, CMP, is principal, RLC Events, in Marlborough, Mass.
Top Five Reasons to Attend FICP’s Education Forum
Mar 09, 2010
Registration opens March 22 for this year’s Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum, set for June 16–18 in St. Louis. Here’s why you should make plans to be there...
The Motivation Show Wants You Back
Mar 06, 2010
The Motivation Show, held annually at McCormick Place in Chicago, has suffered declining exhibitor and visitor numbers, especially on the Incentive Travel & Meeting Executives side. But organizers are making changes, responding to opinions of...
Commentary: When Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong
Mar 05, 2010
Being a lightning rod gives one a heady, slightly edgy sensation. After last week’s column, I had an almost physical sense of the energy flowing through the MeetingsNet Web site, as colleagues debated the merits of a conference keynote who was...
Travel Stimulus Bill Awaits Obama’s Signature
Mar 02, 2010
President Obama is expected to sign in to law within the next week or so the Travel Promotion Act, landmark legislation designed to create 40,000 new travel-industry jobs and attract 1.6 million more international visitors to the United States...
Chile Recovering: What Was and Wasn’t Hit
Mar 01, 2010
Following a massive earthquake February 27 that measured 8.8 on the Richter scale and killed more than 700 people, many Chileans are slowly recovering basic essential services such as water and electricity. Relief supplies from the United Nations...
FICP Profile: Jennifer Dela-Cruz, CMP
FICP Profile: Jennifer Dela-Cruz, CMP
Feb 25, 2010
FICP Profile: Jennifer Dela-Cruz,CMP, Canadian Regional Chair, Senior Meeting Planner, Event Production, RBC, Toronto Q: Why did you decide to take on the responsibility for being chair of the FICP Canadian Region? A: I wanted to take ownership...
FICP Profile
FICP Profile
Feb 25, 2010
Jana Stern, VP, Education, Director, Conventions & Conference Planning, ING, Minneapolis
Dale Irvin's Comic Relief: Ketchup is the Key to Motivation
Feb 25, 2010
Motivation is really "the art of getting people to do what they don’t want to do even though they’re not going to do it very long." The problem with motivation is that it doesn’t stick around. When you first get motivated you are an unstoppable...
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