For taking her team from admins to valued consultants—and having fun along the way

A “high-risk-taking” meeting manager who has repositioned her event …  a well-known industry blogger… several stars behind strategic meetings management successes … an “industry whiz kid”… a founder of a meeting tech tool … a strong leader whose ...

The Meetings Mean Business Coalition’s latest campaign to highlight the meetings industry holds up the U.S. presidential election as a model for the importance of people getting together face to face...

Here are some of the stories I found to be kind of intriguing on the interwebs this week. TGIF! You may love your smartphone, but it is affecting you more than you may think. Check out this Mental Floss video that explains just how our smartph...

Participants posing with their finished Mud Pie KitchensMany meetings include some sort of corporate social responsibility activity to give back to the community in which the event is held. While it’s relatively easy to raise funds to donate to a...

File this one under the strangest press release I've gotten so far this week: A low-water laundry system maker surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. and U.K. consumers to find out how towels impact the quality of the hotel guest experience. And guess wha...

On October 17, the day before IMEX America 2016 opens in Las Vegas, volunteers are invited to join conference staffers and local residents in an organized cleanup of walking trails and parks. The new corporate social responsibility project, calle...

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Hilton Cleveland Downtown will be home to the Republican National Convention's Host Committee in July.The new Hilton Cleveland Downtown celebrated its grand opening on Wednesday, June 1, but rooms in July are already hard to come by. That’s when ...

You walk into the convention ballroom and immediately recognize that this meeting is going to be different. The stage is not at the front of the room, but in the middle of the room. There is no lectern—no “front” to the stage. The chairs are p...