The Washington, D.C., Convention and Visitors Association has promoted Kelley Hogan to corporate sales manager for the Northeast region. Hogan will handle the technology market...

Most organizations want to be learning organizations; many claim to be, and some actually are. High-tech companies, especially, like to think of themselves as places where data-driven decisions are the rule, where post-mortem analysis leads to...

American continues to ramp up service to San Jose, Calif., introducing daily nonstop flights to Washington Dulles airport August 1. This summer the carrier has also added new nonstop service between San Jose and Vancouver, B.C., and through its...

They had been told he would appear via satellite--the rumor was his wife was about to give birth. So when Apple Computer's interim CEO Steven P. Jobs strode on stage to deliver the keynote address at MacWorld Expo in New York City on July 8, the...

Gathered in the parking lot of San Jose's venerable Hayes Conference Center on an early April evening were the big dogs of Prism Solutions Inc.'s sales force--all the domestic reps and the cream of the international team. They were fresh from the...

Your spouse faxes grocery lists from home to your office. You send bad jokes all over the world via e-mail. You buy books and wine over the Internet every week. You sit in on videoconferences with the advertising agency. You've got this high-tech...

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Success as an event manager is often considered a mix of strong organizational skills, savvy negotiating, and bubbling creativity, but some days it's simply knowing all the right questions to ask...

In mid-August, the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus announced its "intent to enter agreement" with Quincy, Mass.-based Passkey Systems as a preferred provider for convention housing reservations systems. Using the...

Sometimes, you just get lucky. "In 1997, when Denver hosted the G-8 Summit, we knew we were going to be the world's press room," says John Adams, general manager of the Denver Convention Center Complex. "So the city asked us to put out a bid for a...