Get association meeting managers talking and one topic that's bound to come up is how to keep attendees from booking outside the official hotel room block. Between third-party pirates marketing their rates to your attendees, to online travel site...

We know that hoteliers have wanted guests to post their (positive) experiences far and wide in social media land. But did you know that some are now monitoring guests' Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts to better personalize their ...

I know, I don't particularly like to think about all the germs that congregate with us as we mix and mingle at meetings. But they are as eternal a staple as chicken entrees and too-loud music at receptions, and think about them we must. Despite t...

Want to know the difference between an old-style meeting and one that works? Here you go. Courtesy of artist Hugh MacLeod, Gaping Void.

Planning meetings may be stressful, and it may entail you doing and enduring things you hate as well as love, but few would argue that it's boring. Which, it turns out, is a really good thing. While you can't actually be bored to death, people i...

While I couldn't get myself out of bed at 2 am for the first #FRESH14 livestreamed session (Copenhagen, where the meeting is being held, is six hours ahead of where I live in Massachusetts), I did catch one of the afternoon sessions, plus a some ...

Meetings industry events aren’t usually magnets for IT students and Web/mobile developers, but Boston’s finest techies flocked to the Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders conference at the Hynes Convention Center a c...

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This kid makes me want to enroll in Georgia Tech! Do your speakers get this fired up? Should they?