McGettigan Partners, a Philadelphia-based meeting management company, is working with software giant Microsoft Corp. to shake down the latest version of its meeting consolidation software. After Microsoft's field consulting group completed a...

Houston-based Continental Airlines launched its electronic airline ticket concept, E-Ticket, in 1995 and now reports 40 percent of its domestic passengers are using it. With those results, the airline is expanding the program with plans to make E...

Just weeks from now, the Computer Event Marketing Association (CEMA) gathers on Hilton Head Island for its annual meeting of event managers, exhibit managers, and other marketing and communications executives...

The editors favorite innovations to help you do your job better--or at least have fun trying. Get the Message he pitfall with most pagers is that when the user is out of range, their messages may be lost. For event planners, that can be often: in...

If an outsource company insists on paying other vendors itself, ask to see those vendor bills. The amazing thing about meeting planning is that your work is never done. While you are handling the internal "public relations" on site, someone must...

Sunday evening, April 26, 1998, 6:30 p.m., Hall C, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center: My badge has been smilingly but carefully scrutinized by a pleasant young woman wearing a red CA World golf shirt and khakis, and I've just been waved into...

Standouts Want ideas for how to maket your meeting more effectively on your Web page? Conduct the most effective online education? Now, you have role models. World-Class Web Sites, by Fusion Productions' Co-founder Don Dea and President Hugh K...

"These days, it is as important for me to find a spot on the golf course where NBC can put a camera as it is to find sleeping rooms," said Ed Simeone, CMP, meetings and events director with EMC Corp., a data storage systems supplier based in...

April, American Airlines dedicated a new resource to the technology market: Alynne Hanford. Now the airline's national sales manager for high-tech and telecommunications, Hanford initiated the new post herself after eight years with American, most...

Tech Associations The Personal Communications Industry Association in Alexandria, Va. has named Garret Dunn director of sales in the meetings and conventions department. Most recently, Dunn was national accounts manager for DIGEX, Inc., a Web site...