Leave it to a veteran event planner to write a soup-to-nuts book on how to do it right. Judy Allen, founder and president of Judy Allen Productions, has put it all down in Event Planning: The Ultimate Guide to Successful Meetings, Corporate Events...
Most conventions have a number of photography needs. Prior to the conference you might need pictures of the conference site for advertising or campaign material. Your program will have portraits of your key executives and guest speakers. Once the...
The meeting industry continues to "e-volve," taking advantage of the quicker response time, reduced paperwork, and lower costs of e-commerce, e-mail, and industry Web sites. Now Congress has joined the e-trend by enacting a new law, The Electronic...
Fond Memories Your recent Up Front column (September CMI) brought tears to my eyes! As you may recall, I was part of your group in the Philippines in 1993. Like you, I have often wondered what happened to the tree that I planted near yours on...
On Location Melbourne, Australia Anyone who thinks all the action was in Sydney during this Olympic year simply wasn't paying attention. Construction crews are everywhere in Melbourne...
SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION: A QUICK PRIMER Your audience speaks English, Spanish, and Mandarin; your keynoter speaks English. Time to call a translator, right? Wrong. Translation involves the written word. If you want your non-English-speaking...
Members of the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus turned out in large numbers at its annual meeting this summer, where CVB execs learned about the umbrella organization's new, for-profit Web initiative called...
IACVB Launches Web Site Members of the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus turned out in large numbers at its annual meeting in late July, where CVB execs learned about a strategic plan for their future at a general session...
The meeting industry continues to "e-volve," taking advantage of the quicker response time, reduced paperwork, and lower costs of e-commerce, e-mail, and industry Web sites. Now Congress has joined the e-trend by enacting a new law, The Electronic...
