What do the Internet matchmaking site eHarmony and the social networking site MySpace have to do with the annual meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand? An awareness of those sites — and how they are all about connecting people...
The second version of the APEX Toolbox — a package of electronic templates for requests for proposals, rooming lists, event specifications, and more — is now downloadable from the Convention Industry Council Web site...
Your event Web site should serve two purposes: Attract new attendees and retain existing ones. If you can answer everyone's questions, you have gained friends. You've given them a good experience. Here are tips on how to make it happen...
The meetings industry has a big problem, and everyone knows it: Planners cannot communicate electronically with their venues. Event details are spelled out in one format and returned in another. Rooming lists have to be re-keyed. Hotels receive...
EIBTM's WorldWide Technology Watch had 26 entries in its 2006 contest to find innovations in meeting technology. While The Event Assistant took top honors, four companies earned an honorable mention from the judges...
Last month Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide held a grand opening for a hotel brand that guests won't be checking into for more than a year. Human beings must wait, but avatars are welcome in the first of the chain's new aloft hotels, which...
Taking advantage of the worldwide, near-fetishistic attachment to cell phones, Dutch company Log On has created a Web-based application that allows conference-goers to use their mobile phones to network, view the agenda, participate in polls, and...
Taking advantage of the worldwide, near-fetishistic attachment to cell phones, the Dutch company Log On has created a Web-based application that allows conference-goers to use their mobile phones to network, view the agenda, participate in polls...
If you're looking for the next thing in creative marketing tools for trade shows, you would have found it at last month's International Manufacturing Technology Show, September 6 to 13, in Chicago. That's where HypoSurface made its North American...
