The meetings industry continues to "e-volve," taking advantage of the quicker response time, reduced paperwork, and lower costs of e-commerce, e-mail, and industry Web sites. Now Congress is joining the e-trend by enacting a new law, The...
OK, so you knew when you took the job that you'd spend a zillion hours on the road, but you find yourself pining for home and hearth more than you expected. With X-10's XRay Vision Video Camera Kit (just $129), you can keep tabs on your home, your...
Taking a cue from the online adult entertainment industry, one of the few industries that has actually made money on the Web, the International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus announced an ambitious new Web initiative at its annual...
Mission Possible: Security Remember to think about the security of your meeting. Even if your preparation just avoids a rumor, it will have been worth it...
"High-speed access and old world charm," says Harry Wouters, general manager of the Tinley Park Holiday Inn and Convention Center being built in Chicago Southland, just minutes from Midway Airport. "That's our promise and our motto." And he means...
A billion bits a second, coming soon You may have heard about the coming expansion of the Austin, Texas, Convention Center. Groundbreaking took place in November, and the work, which will double the size of the present facility to 881,400 square...
At Electro-Media Design, we study presentation technologies from the perspective of meeting planners, attendees, and presenters. We have led workshops and focus groups on the use of presentation technologies in our quest to anticipate and...
Some people prefer not to travel more than two hours at a time because they don't want to carry spare batteries for their laptops. But how about a spare battery that would get you from Los Angeles to Sydney at full power, even with a stop in...
Sooner or later every major convention center has to deal with a big Microsoft event. For the Northern Kentucky Convention Center (NKCC) it was sooner: Within four months of its November opening, the Covington, Ky., center got the Microsoft...
It's Not Either/Or If the popular press is to be believed, it won't be long before the world of in-person training events will have evaporated, having been completely replaced by online learning. Companies, they suggest, will no longer invest in...
