The Computer Event Marketing Association (CEMA) has expanded its staff to include Erik Holden as member services coordinator. The Sudbury, Mass.-based association (www.cemaonline.com) welcomes IT professionals whose responsibilities include events...

* The $83 million Savannah International Trade & Convention Center cele- brates its grand opening in early May. The complex has 100,000 square feet of exhibit space, a 25,000-square-foot ballroom, a 400-seat amphitheater, and 17 meeting rooms...

Tackling the nuts and bolts of planning events in other countries, the fourth annual Beyond Borders Conference drew about 85 registrants to the New York Hilton Hotel & Towers in New York City in March for an information-packed, two-day...

George Little Management, White Plains, N.Y., has been producing trade shows since 1924, but only recently decided to venture into the corporate meeting arena. Its initial target is the high-tech market...

Cue the "Dragnet" music. The rumbling voice of the narrator intones that we will once again visit our hotel contract files to review the raw, the true, the underbelly of the hotel contract world. We will take a look at a real provision addressing...

Event managers often balk a convention center with an exclusive deal with a communications provider. But at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center, exclusivity comes at a price to its provider: No matter what the client wants, BellSouth...

Last year meeting management Web sites boomed. This year, companies may actually be using them. Online sites that can help you find a property, send out an RFP, and much more--like StarCite, EventSource, AllMeetings.com, and the relative grand...

One of my clients is a medical society that recently teamed with a company called The Virtual Operating Room (www.thevirtualor.com) to provide real-time and archived online educational events suitable for continuing education credits. Although VOR...

Cleveland, Ohio-based Penton Media has put 28 of its shows, including such major high-tech events as Internet World and Wireless Symposium, in the hands of GES Exposition Services. Penton signed a five-year agreement to have GES serve as general...

The partnership of site selection firm HelmsBriscoe and online meeting management firm StarCite pairs two fast companies to create a new business model--"bricks and clicks," in the words of Roger Helms, HelmsBriscoe president and CEO...