For the past eight years, the Incentive Research Foundation has surveyed incentive industry professionals on a regular basis to assess their outlook on incentives in the near term and to identify longer-term trends. The IRF’s Fall Pulse...
In 2013, we conducted a survey in partnership with our friends at Tagoras. One hundred and twenty conference/education professionals responded to the question “Does your organization re-write any of its speaker session submissions (e.g...
At the American Society of Association Executives Annual Conference and Exhibition, held in August in Detroit, I went to a great learning lab session about disruptive developments that could affect future meetings. Key among the disrupters discus...
Social media users tend to fall in one of two camps: Those who love it when their friends post pictures of their meals, and those whose friends don’t know how to take good food pictures.
Okay, I jest. Social media—and, in this case, Instag...
The Federal Communications Commission plans a $718,000 fine against electrical contracting company M.C. Dean for blocking consumers’ Wi-Fi connections at the Baltimore Convention Center. The same day it announced this action, November 2, the...
Meeting Professionals International has purchased the assets of Plan Your Meetings, an Atlanta-based privately owned educational and networking resources company that produces live meetings and events, a meeting planning guide, and digital meetin...
Her version of Stevie Wonder's Superstition won Lauren Blocker the grand prize at a talent show held during IMEX America this year.One of the things I really enjoyed at Cvent Connect this year was that they used homegrown talent—the company’s own...
