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Twitter may still be the go-to social media channel for a lot of on-site participants at meetings, but is that where meetings professionals should focus their attention? Sure, it's a great way to find out if you need to turn down a thermostat in a...

Today's guest post is by Richard Fertig, founder and president of Brilliant Transportation. Scrupulous attention to detail is essential for any meeting or event, especially when dealing with global transportation and time management, as I lear...

Today's guest post is by speaker, author, and one of my favorite Aussies Neen James. The lights came up as the person who was about to interview a living legend slowly walked onto the stage at an industry conference. Our anticipation turned to...

Maybe it’s because I don’t have a long history with Meeting Professionals International, but sometimes it feels like it's the Rodney Dangerfield of meetings industry organizations—no matter what it tries, it gets no respect. Take the latest an...

Say your conference uses a blind speaker selection process to ensure you get a fair, diverse group of speakers. Then you accept as a speaker a guy who in addition to having created an experimental computing platform ends up having a pretty well-k...

While I can't say it brought tears to my eyes, as it did the first meeting professional who watched this video celebrating all things meetings, I love that we now have a soundtrack to go with the Global Meetings Industry Day celebrations being...

Today's guest post is by Mark Kao, department manager for COS Group, and head of COS Rental. This is the third in a three-part series on successful strategies for using Instagram for events. Instagram boasts over 300 million active and highly ...

What did participants at this year's Pharma Forum, taking place this week at the Marriott Marquis in New York, see when they entered the general session ballroom that made their eyes widen? Just this: I don't know if you can see all the wa...