Meeting planners (and the journalists who cover their industry, present company most definitely included) have been on the tech-wagon for a while now, Facebooking and Linking In and blogging to generate excitement about their events. Which is goo...
Have you embraced social media yet? Chances are that you’re dabbling in it on a personal level—I’d bet you have a Facebook page and maybe a board or two on Pinterest—but you haven’t fully taken the plunge as a...
Last week I had the opportunity to take a short trip into Cambridge, Mass., to check out the Marriott's new Teleporter at the Boston Marriott Cambridge by MIT. It was set up in the lobby just inside the front doors, a phone booth-sized apparatus ...
Elena Werth, client services manager, Cvent, outlines what she calls her 10 Commandments for user-friendly event Web sites at her company’s Association Meetings Summit, held in June in Las Vegas. Here are her suggestions on how to design a...
IAEE's Future Trends Task Force identifies emerging trends and their implications for exhibition organizers, attendees, exhibitors, facilities, and vendors.
Don't you love it when condiments invite you to play a game? Well, it actually had never happened to me before we went out to brunch over the weekend and I saw this jolly little red bottle of ketchup doing just that. And on the back was this:
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It wasn't too long ago that I found myself musing about how virtual reality technology like Oculus Rift could affect meetings and events. Little did I know that Marriott Hotels was cooking up a seriously interesting VR project of its own, what it...
