Christine Hilgert, CMP, senior vice president of meetings, Meeting ExpectationsDrones, those remote-controlled quadrocopters you probably have seen and heard whining overhead—have come a long way from their early role as solely military tools. Th...

Today's guest post is by Mark Kao, department manager for COS Group, and head of COS Rental. This is the third in a three-part series on using Instagram's newest features for events. Part 1: Power Up Your Planning with Instagram's New Features...

Today's guest post is by Mark Kao, department manager for COS Group, and head of COS Rental. This is the second in a three-part series on using Instagram's newest features for events. Part 1: Power Up Your Planning with Instagram's New Feature...

Today's guest post is by Mark Kao, department manager for COS Group, and head of COS Rental. This is the first in a three-part series on using Instagram's new features for events. Instagram just keeps growing. Its user base surpassed the 500 m...

MeetingsNet recently caught up with Tracy Petrillo, CAE, chief learning officer at EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association for higher education IT leaders, which provides digital badges to members completing some of its educational offerings. Petrillo...

Cvent Founder and CEO Reggie Aggarwal will serve as CEO of the newly merged company.Cvent and Lanyon Solutions have officially merged into one global meeting, event, and travel technology company. Lanyon’s owner, Vista Equity Partners, reported t...

Meeting planners are experts at orchestrating how content is presented. They know how to provide the production values needed to create a great experience around the content. But not all planners are specialists themselves in the topics their mee...

As the world of meetings evolves from what we traditionally thought of as education and networking to a more experiential format, hotel companies are also working to improve attendee (and overall guest) experience while on site. Some are opening ...

FOMO, or the fear of missing out, is that feeling that everyone is having more fun than you are. You know it—it’s how you feel when you scroll through your social media feeds and see all those shiny, happy people doing shiny, happy...

Rotten WiFi, the U.K.-based website that calls itself the public Wi-Fi and 3G/4G watchdog, is out with a new report on wireless Internet speeds at the world’s airports. Seven U.S. airports made the top 20 based on download speeds and...