Sustainable events company MeetGreen has teamed up with TerraPass, which specializes in innovations for environmental impact reduction, to offer the TerraPass Event Carbon Calculator. The goal is give meeting and event organizers a simple way to ...

It’s not enough to just approve the use of virtual meetings. Top companies are defining their virtual meeting strategy by researching their needs and technology options, designing a plan, educating their meeting managers and meeting owners...

In 2012, I became my organization’s social media manager, combining my experience in meeting management with my studies in interactive media. To many, this seemed like a departure from a career path on which I’d traveled for more than...

I'm going to be moderating what I think will be a really cool free webinar this Thursday, March 19, at 2 p.m. ET on how you can use the six ways your attendees behave digitally to design activities that will help you get your key messages across...

Meet CJ, one of the St. Bernard Rescue Foundation rescue dogs currently looking for a home in Texas.As much as I love the puppy-cuddling stations Meeting Professionals International has been including in its World Education Congresses in recent y...

I may have uttered a little "Yelp!" of my own when meetings industry consultant Joan Eisenstodt posted a link to this Fast Company article on the Miforum listserv, in one of those "Why didn't I think of this?" kind of ways. The article talks abou...

Screen shot of the fastest flights interactive Web site home pageI went to a session on data journalism led by the Boston Globe's Evan Horowitz at an American Society of Business Press Editors bootcamp last fall. It's a whole different way of tel...

Image courtesy of StarwoodStarwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide is bringing a mashup of digital, design, and luxury brand teams together in one place—a creative hub called Starlab—to drive innovation and bring a startup sensibility to the hospita...

Fewer than one in five event marketing executives believe they are “very effective” in creating a viral impact from their events—extending their reach and visibility through social media sharing. It’s a surprising statistic, considering that abou...

Meeting planners can collect lots of data about attendee behavior when they use mobile apps at meetings, and really get granular about what content and experiences are connecting with participants. But there are other stats that can go into the m...