Plenty of organizations are ready to help you meet your teambuilding, creativity training, and other intangible goals using "ropes" courses, scavenger hunts, game shows, drumming circles, even playing with clay. Recently, however, I heard about a...
Winning meeting business will take more than an eight-year-old, glass-walled facility in sunny Fort Lauderdale, said Mark Gatley, referring to the building where he serves as general manager. It will take the 230,000-square-foot expansion now...
Planning a satellite event will put your decision-making skills to the test and, with its lexicon of industry-specific buzz words, may send your head spinning. Here's a glossary to help you on your way...
Two major providers of audience response technology--Option Technologies, Ogden, Utah, and MeetingNet Interactive, Orlando, Fla.--have merged to create Option Technologies Interactive. The new company offers a suite of audience response and group...
Remember when a "multimedia" show meant having three to 12 slide projectors, a cassette recorder, and maybe a 16mm film projector? If you got fancy, you might have fog, three side-by-side screens, and some dissolve units. Remember the sky-high...
The future may not be now at Moscone Convention Center in the heart of San Francisco, but it's just around the corner. And that's a problem for Facilities Manager Dan Bora. Moscone broke ground last fall on a freestanding expansion, Moscone West...
As I've reiterated in my columns about outsourcing meeting production and creative services, the most important part of the client-vendor mix is the relationship itself. It's time to revisit this important issue by looking at the beginning of the...
The Internet is shaking up the way we do business. The new tools to e-market events, e-register attendees, and e-communicate with suppliers are just the basics. There's a lot to talk about, and that's exactly what we'll do in July at Summit 2000...
We asked three legal experts--John S. Foster, a principal in Foster, Jensen & Gulley, Atlanta; Jonathan T. Howe, senior partner/president of Howe & Hutton, Chicago; and Jed R. Mandel, a partner in Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago--to...
