Association meeting planners have been hesitant to embrace virtual meetings, but the trend is starting to catch on. “Within three to five years, I would say, most associations will be moving to a three-dimensional immersive virtual platform to...
Cvent, a McLean, Va.–based event technology provider, has released a major upgrade to its online request for proposal tool, the Cvent Supplier Network. Major changes include the option for meeting planners to send hotels a stripped-down request f...
Cisco Systems, the San Jose, Calif.–based technology giant, has announced plans to market its suite of collaborative communications tools to the events industry...
In the future, everyone likely will know how to use social media to make their meetings and educational outcomes more effective. Until then, there's a lot to figure out. A group of early adopters met at this year's American Society of Clinical...
A recent survey on Internet privacy and reputation management points to some interesting twists on the road to integrating meetings with social media...
Creating and executing a social-media strategy has become a must in the meeting and event planning process. For those learning the ropes, two new resources were announced in early June: a free white paper, produced by TBA Global, and an online...
Mobile phones are changing the meeting experience, from how we interact with a destination to the way we register on site. Here are five new applications that illustrate the trend...
