This is a good time to be a technology meeting or event manager thinking about meeting in Indianapolis. Here's one reason: The city broke ground in early June on 100,000 square feet of new column-free exhibit space at the Indiana Convention Center...

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Tired of dashing out of your hotel room late at night in your bunny slippers to pick up the latest "confidential" fax--which has now been perused by the front desk staff? The folks at eFax.com know just how you feel. The Menlo Park, Calif....

You have 60 days to organize the next sales meeting, but you just don't have time to call your national sales contacts or peruse an online facilities database. For those last-minute meetings, consider Smart RFP, a new Web-based site selection...

If you watch TV, you've probably seen one of the pervasive IBM commercials exhorting us to "Work the Web." It's a great concept, but of course, the toughest part about working the Web is figuring out what exactly you want to work...

Imagine you are sitting in a training class, and every 15 minutes someone comes in, opens your wallet, and pulls out a $20 bill. That class would have to be pretty darn good for you to stay very long. But this is what it's like to be a sales rep...

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CEMA Summit, the annual gathering of the Computer Event Management Association, this year convenes in Quebec, Canada, at Chateau Mont Tremblant. Best known as a ski destination, located at the foot of Mont Trem- bant, the 316-room property will...

PowerPoint is a terrific presentation tool, no doubt about it, but we've all had our fill of those graphics of the man at the podium, the guy pounding his fist, and the dozens of other dopey clip-art images. That '50s/'60s-retro look only goes so...

Jason E. Chudnofsky, president and CEO of ZD Events (producer of Comdex) in Needham, Mass., once said that he would worry about the impact of the Internet on live trade shows when the virtual honeymoon had replaced the real thing. During his...