The MeetingsNet IdeaXchange has been hopping this week. Here are a few of my favorite posts—feel free to click through and add to the discussion!
Steve Bova, CAE• You have to love a post with "Kids these Days" in the headline, right? Steve Bova...
Pacific World regularly checks in with its offices in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia to create a monthly Destination Index, showing the currently trending cities and countries for meetings and incentives. Now, the DMC and event...
Image by Gustavo da Cunha Pimenta via FlickrStarwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide this week launched two new initiatives: a partnership with Uber that gives Starwood Preferred Guests points for using the ride-sharing platform; and the ProMeetings...
Special Events magazine, a sister of MeetingsNet, honored 2014 top events and their event planners from around the world in January at The Special Event 2015 convention and trade show in Anaheim, Calif. The Special Events Gala Awards—the...
Image courtesy of StarwoodStarwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide is bringing a mashup of digital, design, and luxury brand teams together in one place—a creative hub called Starlab—to drive innovation and bring a startup sensibility to the hospita...
SAP CEO Bill McDermott SAP CEO Bill McDermott likes to share his personal stories about the power of meetings to solidify and spread corporate values, and even turn a company around. He beamed his message into IMEX America last fall, and now he’s...
The Meetings Mean Business Coalition recently announced the first-ever North American Meetings Industry Day, set for April 16. As co-chair of the MMBC, I’m very proud to see this come together—a day for us to rally in celebration of...
Once upon a time, meeting attendees had pretty minimal meal choices—generally chicken or beef, and if they didn’t like it, they ate around it or got their meals outside of the ballroom. But the plates were cleared long ago on those simple meal ch...
I am often struck by how corporate meeting professionals understand the need for strategic meetings management while simultaneously disparaging SMM for not putting the needs of meeting stakeholders front and center. They argue that the standardiz...
Even Mango is sick of being up to her neck in the white stuff.I rejoiced this morning when I looked at the thermometer and saw it was 24 degrees out—heat wave! Then I looked again and it was actually 2.4 degrees. Sigh. It takes me longer to don m...