McGettigan Partners, a Philadelphia-based conference planning company, has created a 15-page guide to successful user group conferences. Since nothing is really ever free, the booklet is also a vehicle for McGettigan to promote itself, but, wisely...

Motivation Online (www.motivationonline.com) describes itself as being in the "behavior business." Its online performance improvement and rewards system, launched last January, was built from a foundation of behavioral principles, with the goal of...

When you're pursuing a competitive market in the midst of explosive change, how do you find out what you need to know? Agilent's answer: Let a third party hold a conference for you...

If you're looking for a meeting site in the U.K. or Ireland but you don't need a primer on planning or a chat with other Web denizens or any other flashing, spinning, pulsing distraction, venuedirectory.com is your kind of Web site...

Moon Palace brings high-tech to Cancun, and its sister property will soon follow. Groups have long favored Cancun for its sun and sand, but with two new expansions--at Palace Resorts' Moon Palace in Cancun and Aventura Palace, 45 minutes south of...

Cooperative Philanthropy On October 30, a philanthropic experiment begins at SD 2000 East, the Software Development Conference & Expo (www.sdexpo.com). Taking advantage of the huge pool of talent among its 1,000 or so attendees, volunteers...

When i2 Technologies decided to expand its Planet user conference to Europe, planners had less than six months to make it happen...

*The second phase of the $100 million Queensway Bay Project to redevelop 300 acres of Long Beach oceanfront broke ground last spring. The project will include an entertainment, dining, and retail area targeted for completion in May...

New Products Need New Offers My mailbox and in box are swamped. Daily, I'm cordially invited to learn about the latest in something: solutions, tools, partnerships, products, services, or techniques. Most of these offers are from energetic...

DOT-COM TARGETS SMALL MEETINGS MeetingXpress aims to distinguish itself in the crowded online meeting planning space by narrowing its focus. Its concept is the same as many other dot-coms - a Web site where planners can search a database of...