A few months ago I interviewed Scott Owens of Salesforce, the biggest name in customer relationship management technology (“The Dreamforce App: In Your Corner, Not in Your Face”). Owens is in charge of the event app for Dreamforce, the...
Ruth Levine, founder of SpeakInc. Speakers bureau, released her list of the most popular female speakers for 2014 in July 2013. That prompted us to get in touch and ask her more about gender and the corporate speaker circuit.
MeetingsNet: Do y...
We found some new twists (selfies as promotional tools), major shifts (have you considered downscaling hotels?), little wows (smartphones as room keys), and big impressions (a wall of Instagram photos) to share with you in our roundup. We'd love ...
The event planning software company Social Tables and the advocacy group Meetings Mean Business have collaborated with industry experts on a trend report called “The 9 Ways Meetings Will Impact Hotels in 2015.” Among the contributors...
One of the chief joys when traveling is visiting a world-class, historic city for the first time. That first time you set out to explore a metropolis is like the morning after a snowfall. The virgin snow stretches out as far as eye can see, just ...
Incentive organizers should take their increasing budgets and positive outlook and focus on attracting and retaining high-performing employees to help their organizations through the coming talent shortage. Venues should abandon the wellness...
Can the electronic request for proposal process between meeting planners and hoteliers be improved? The answer was a resounding “yes” from the participants at a session I led at last month’s Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Co...
Hold a meeting at an Omni property, use the hotel company’s technology partner, Encore Event Technologies, a Freeman Company, and get a free event app. Encore, which is on site at more than three dozen properties in the Omni portfolio and is...
