CventConnect's Innovation Pavilion was the place to preview the company's upcoming releases.What is Cvent? Well, unless you want the vaguest of answers (say, “meeting technology”), you can get different answers depending on who it is you’re talki...

Reggie Aggarwal, CEO and cofounder of Cvent Inc., addressed what he called “the elephant in the room” at the company’s annual client conference, CventConnect, being held this week in Las Vegas. “Most of you are aware that Cvent entered into a def...

“Event coordinator” comes in fifth on the Forbes 10 Most Stressful Jobs list for 2016. Because that’s Lanyon’s customer base, the event management software company decided to poll meeting planners to find out what’s...

Meeting professionals want to use social media to foment more participant engagement around meetings and events, but getting started can be daunting. In a recent MeetingsNet webinar, Luann Edwards, CMP, CMM, social media strategist, FM Global, of...

I have to admit I haven’t felt compelled to play around much with image messaging app Snapchat as a social channel for meetings and events—why use something that is designed to disappear, rather than the sturdier Twitter? Snaps are only available...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Grass Shack Events and Media's Mike McAllen sits down with Kiki L’Italien, founder and CEO of Amplified Growth. Amplified Growth is a Washington, D.C.–based social med...

Futurist and innovation expert Jim Carroll giving a keynote speech at digitalNowA conference dedicated to the steep and swiftly changing digital world’s effects on associations is taking place at the Hyatt Regency Orlando this week. digitalNow, o...