Today, strategic meeting management technologies have a low-tech side. When the bills come in, spend figures have to be manually keyed in to the expense reporting system. The next step for strategic meeting management technologies is to put some...
By the first quarter of 2008, StarCite expects to have a new travel booking feature: a direct link to Orbitz for Business and Travelport for Business from its attendee-management application...
Unless Osram Sylvania Inc. can get some quick relief from a Florida court, it’s going to have to find a different location for its national sales meeting, booked for October...
Destination Marketing Association International (the former International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus) held its annual convention in Pittsburgh last week, where leadership announced several items of note for meeting planners...
Meeting Professionals International 2007-2008 leadership assumed their roles July 1, bringing in a board of directors led by Angie Pfeifer, CMM, assistant vice president, corporate meetings, travel and incentives, Investors Group Financial...
When the NASD/NYSE Member Regulation merger is completed, two things are sure. The group will have regulatory authority over financial services firms’ practices relating to, among other things, meetings and education/training seminars, and it will...
Haggis—sheep guts mixed with oats and boiled in a stomach casing—is best enjoyed with a liberal amount of whiskey. Actually, I recommend getting started on the whiskey before the haggis even hits your plate, but as they say: When in Scotland, do...
A packed educational agenda drew a record-breaking 176 planners and hospitality partners to the Financial and Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum, June 20 to 22. This year, the annual three-day conference, aptly themed “Presenting You,”...
When the NASD and NYSE Regulation (the arm of the New York Stock Exchange that deals with regulatory issues) merge, the new organization will be known as the Securities Industry Regulatory Authority. NASD CEO and Chairman Mary Schapiro, who will...
