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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
