Boom Town Chicago ...

Trade show producer Key3Media Events Inc. has a new housing provider, Passkey.com Inc., whose Web-based housing service allows event planners and hotels to manage room block information 24/7...

Just five minutes from O'Hare Airport, sitting at the confluence of three highways, Rosemont, Ill.'s Donald E. Stephens Convention Center has a reputation for accessibility … that is, unless you mean online accessibility. In that case, until...

Destination Crown Center is the name used to market a package of hotels and exhibit space in downtown Kansas City, Mo. The package includes the 52,000-square-foot Crown Exhibit Hall, which opened in January; the 731-room Hyatt Regency Hotel with...

Sweet Liaison Chocolates in San Ramon, Calif., is among the companies that will fashion a business card out of chocolate for you. What puts these treats at the head of the Rolodex is the quality of their goods. The company uses Belgian Callebaut...

Bluedot Launch ...

When you pick up your copy of Fast Company, do you think the story about the person whose title is “Knowledge Sorceress” is a little bit ridiculous? A lot ridiculous? When a product manager tells you that he wants to discuss product launch ...

Event planners who returned our recent fax survey on the economic slowdown were placed in a drawing for a $100 gift certificate from L.L. Bean. Congratulations to our winner, Julie Steible, CMP, CMM, events managers, NCR Corp., and to everyone who...

In the recently published Training with a Beat, author Lenn Millbower makes a case for the power of integrating music into the learning process. Music, he argues, establishes a positive learning environment, aids memorization, changes energy...

All manner of “tech solutions” cross my desk, so it's getting hard to surprise me. But believe me, my socks flew off when I heard about Anna Morris, the concierge at the Westin Santa Clara. Ms. Morris is a telecommuter. That's right, a hotel...