To measure is to know. These are the words of Lord Kelvin, 19th-century mathematical physicist. Another of his quotable phrases: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” Indeed, meeting executives are wise to take his thinking to heart...

HYATT'S ONLINE GROUP BOOKING ENGINE got an upgrade this summer, one significant enough to give it a new name, changing from “E-mmediate Meetings” to “E-mmediate Response,” and a new home at www.e-mmediateresponse.com...

Financial services and insurance companies are nothing if not conservative, and few seem to have jumped on the blogging bandwagon — at least, few have so far. But even if you don't think blogging (short for Web logging), or online journaling, is...

GE CONSUMER FINANCE'S Corporate Payment Services unit has added a third kind of credit card to the roster of payment solutions it markets as a way that companies can track and control meeting expenses...

A RECENT SURVEY of incentive planners by the Incentive Federation shows that about one in four respondents runs an online incentive program — a significant gain of 19 percent from the last survey, completed in 2003. Larger companies have been the...

CONNECTING WITH YOUR ATTENDEES is the name of the game, and two facility-based technologies offer a glimpse into leading-edge, on-site meeting communications...

The American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan., did something a little different this year with its eight-year-old Annual Clinical Focus educational initiative — it was done entirely through video-streaming on the Web. In previous years...

TWO EVENT MANAGEMENT software companies have merged — Bellevue, Wash.-based Peopleware, with a strong U.S. customer base, and Brisbane, Australia-based Amlink Technologies, with clients in 46 other countries...

IMMERSITRON VIRTUAL REALITY UNIT — The unit lets up to 120 participants per hour engage in virtual sports or fantasy battles using green screen technology. Because there are no headsets, guests don't have to worry about mussing up their hair or...

Starwood's new online booking engine for day meetings was operating in 25 hotels as of mid-May, with plans to double that number by the end of the summer. The service allows planners to make a definite booking for meeting space, F&B, and...