EVENTSOURCE CREATES TRACKING TOOL; JOINS WITH EXTENSITY Shortly after launching Compass, its new meeting management and expense-tracking tool, EventSource announced that the 170 corporate customers of Extensity Inc. (www.extensity.com) have access...

2001: A Year of Change? It seems like the U.S. hotel seller's market is never going to end. But, according to at least one hospitality industry forecaster, meeting organizers may gain some negotiating clout in the second half of 2001...

Live Training Lives On, Says Survey Training remains big business in these millennial times - and live and in person still beats online. According to Training magazine's (www.trainingmag.com) Industry Report 2000, released in October, U.S...

Service, technology, consolidation, competition for producers - these are just a few of the topics coming to the fore in 2001. It's time again to look ahead...

The message from this year's e-mail survey of 410 CMI Readers is clear: If your incentives are not innovative, individualized, and customized, they're not going to measure up. Today's competitive and talent-hungry marketplace demands a new breed...

Appreciate Them - If You Want to Keep Them It's no secret that in the current economy, talented employees are hard to hold onto. Especially if you don't make them feel appreciated, says a recent survey of 473 human resource professionals conducted...

From the photos in your brochures to the contracts you have with speakers, copyright laws come into play in just about every phase of the event planning process. Here are a half-dozen key copyright concerns...

...from the meeting and incentive industry's main event, the Motivation Show, held in October in Chicago ...

* CHANGINGFACES Barbara Best, a 20-year sales and hospitality veteran, has been named director, global accounts, North America for Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which includes such brands as Westin, Sheraton, W, Four Points by Sheraton, St. Regis...

Copyright 101 Don't assume that lack of a copyright notice on someone's materials means that you may copy them freely...