Today, strategic meeting management technologies have a low-tech side. When the bills come in, spend figures have to be manually keyed in to the expense reporting system. The next step for strategic meeting management technologies is to put some...

Much attention is being paid on Web 2.0 and related web themes like social networking, collaboration, and measurement because they impact how we work, learn, and play. But how can an online movement relate to face-to-face events and the meetings...

Technology continues to advance at exponential rates and is changing the face of the meetings industry in astonishing ways. We will see many developments in the next few years. Web 2.0 (the participatory Web) will change the events industry in...

Wikis are Standard fare for technology conferences — and what's hot with tech companies tends to spread fast. A wiki is a Web site that lets users easily add, edit, or remove content. While a blog is made to broadcast the thoughts of one or a few...

Imagine it is midnight during a trip overseas, and your CEO wants to schedule an emergency board meeting in New York for the next day — with lunch and a coffee break — and don't forget the company procurement policy that requires you to use a...

If Elliott Masie were king of the forest, the woods would be blanketed with Wi-Fi, every encounter between predator and prey would be televised, and the results of every campfire chat would be shared instantly via blog or IM...

This year’s Chicago edition of the Meetings Technology Expo will take place at Navy Pier on May 15. The daylong event, the only one of its kind devoted to meetings-technology topics, vendors, and services, will feature 12 educational concurrents...

American Express Advisory Services within two months plans to offer midsize companies a new sourcing tool for small meetings. The tool, called Preferred Extras: Meetings, is an electronic catalog of properties with pre-negotiated rates secured by...

The two of us met in a spotless, glass-walled boardroom, video screen at one end, photos of the organization's leaders at the other, and a large table commanding the center of the space. Nothing alarming. Larry Pixel's mop of blond hair...

In Just 11 Years, electronic requests for proposal have grown from novelty features on hoteliers' Web sites to an entire subindustry with hundreds of facilitators, templates, and tools. E-RFP technology has remained relatively static over the past...