Welcome to this year’s class of MeetingsNet Changemakers. We were thrilled to nab Mike Shea of South by Southwest for our list. If there’s a more changemaking meeting than SXSW, we haven’t seen it. What’s truly impressive about Shea, who’s been w...

Dan Young, CMP, has been managing Thrivent Financial’s annual Peak Performers’ Conference since its inception. (He also worked predecessor conferences at Lutheran Brotherhood beginning in 1994, until that organization merged with Aid Association ...

Tech bells and whistles can enhance a presentation—or put an audience to sleep. It pays to choose wisely.

The Ritz-Carlton, St. ThomasIn recent years, a few Caribbean destinations have made a big splash in the group market with new resort offerings, some of them all-inclusive. On a recent familiarization tour of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands...

The legendary golf resort gets the Trump touch with a $250 million makeover.

Twitter allows us 140 characters to deliver a message and catch the attention of our followers to take action. That action may be to connect to an article, Web site, book, or to engage another person. Either way, it is the haiku of the Twitter...

In a recent survey, “venue cost” predictably came out on top as the most important factor considered by meeting planners when booking venues...

Toss the boring old meeting-as-usual and inject some of these ideas to transform your events into must-attend experiences.