Many conference organizers provide potential attendees with templates and tools designed to convince the boss to approve their participation. These are cost/benefit tools with boilerplate copy. Quantifying the expense side is straightforward. The...
In sales, you’re only as good as your last sale. In meeting planning, you’re only as good as your last meeting. Or so it seems. There is immense pressure to deliver more, better, faster, and with less...
Earlier this year, along with thousands of other association executives, I attended the American Society of Association Executives' annual meeting in Detroit and witnessed fascinating discussions and presentations on a vast range of topical...
Good news! All signs point to the fact that strategic meetings management is not only alive and well, but here to stay. After the industry meetings I attended this fall (CIC Conclave, IMEX America, Lanyon Live, BTN Strategic Meetings Summit)...
In 2013, we conducted a survey in partnership with our friends at Tagoras. One hundred and twenty conference/education professionals responded to the question “Does your organization re-write any of its speaker session submissions (e.g...
Social media users tend to fall in one of two camps: Those who love it when their friends post pictures of their meals, and those whose friends don’t know how to take good food pictures.
Okay, I jest. Social media—and, in this case, Instag...
You know if you have it. You know if someone else has it. And, you know if some places and things have it. In the world of style, you either have it, or, you don’t. Many of you may have been told that your meeting and events are different...
The idea of having to resolve conflicts of interesting in continuing medical education is not new, but there still is a lot of confusion around what does and does not constitute a COI.
