E-mail is the marketing vehicle of choice for independent planners who need to get the word out about their services. We tapped several planners for tips on how to keep recipients from hitting the delete key...
If you run large meetings at which networking is a priority — and you've got budget to spare to make that networking happen — read on. A tech tool called Rio, created by CRG-Total Event Solutions, Seattle, allows attendees to search an online...
San Francisco-based Certain Software released version 4.0 of its popular registration and attendee management software, Register123, in June. Among the application's new capabilities are roommate matching and change tracking...
IF YOU RUN LARGE MEETINGS at which networking is a priority — and you've got budget to spare to make that networking happen — read on. A tech tool called Rio, created by CRG-Total Event Solutions, Seattle, allows attendees to search an online...
WHAT DO COPIERS, ELECTRICITY, AND OFFICE SUPPLIES have in common with meeting services? Some major corporations are purchasing all these things, and more, using a reverse auction process. This efficient, but somewhat contentious, sourcing strategy...
Through June, Corbin Ball's e-book, Ultimate Technology Guide for Meeting Professionals, is available free to members of Meeting Professionals International. The updated guide, released last fall, features 1,200 meeting industry — related...
TALK TO THE RESIDENT GEEK in a convention center's tech support group long enough, and you're bound to hear something like this: “We have the scalable capacity to partition and provision multiple secure LANs, WANs, and VLANs for point-to-point...
IT USED TO BE NEWS to report that a hotel or convention center had installed a wireless Internet system, but these days the little wireless transmitters are going up so fast that it's hard to find a destination where you can't unplug. How about...
At Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Mass., the big issue three years ago was how to liven up its grand rounds programs. Donna Beales, MLIS, librarian and CME coordinator for the hospital, says the audience-response system they bought to perk...
