Orlando-based e.port Public Information Network, which has Internet kiosks in many of Orlando's convention hotels, launched a customizable e-card product in September. The prepaid cards give users time at the company's kiosks, and can be...
The old McCormick East hall enters the fast lane. Chicago has long been the Land of the Giants. The biggest events in the country have shuttled in and out of McCormick Place for decades. But now you don't have to run a behemoth to find a...
Most event professionals know how much their meetings cost. But do they know how much their meeting contracts cost? Do they know that there are expenses buried in "standard clauses" just waiting to break the budget? While identifying those hidden...
When SAP plugged in back-to-back developer/user conferences, the strategy saved a bundle, but the event team had to do the L.A. hustle. We didn't want to do this," says T. Christopher Burton, marketing director for SAP America, the U.S. unit of...
n the final hours of the 105th Congress, the Internet Tax Freedom Act was still in limbo and was expected to die when lawmakers recessed. Although the act, which would impose a three-year moratorium on taxation of Internet commerce, had passed the...
Three factors affect intelligibility: noise, reverberation, and echoes. The effective transfer of audiovisual information from the presenter to the audience relies on a balance between both the audio and visual elements...
Remember the game of "telephone"? You whisper something to a friend, who whispers it to the next kid, who whispers it to the next, and on and on. A message that begins: "There are three bugs in Susan's soup" inevitably ends up something like "Hair...
When Henry Ford introduced the mass-produced Model A, he didn't organize a conference to talk about the coming revolution in American transportation. He didn't need or want partners. He built the River Rouge plant, where iron ore came in one end...
Most surprising to the first-time visitor is the soft, natural light that brightens meeting and exhibit space even on a rainy day. Unlike some examples of contemporary architecture that feel cold and stark, Design Center Linz projects a cheerful...
