The success of your meeting depends on what your participants are eating. Here's why a meeting travels on its stomach--along with some lessons from the world of food marketing for medical conference organizers...

Meeting executives hire speakers to educate or to entertain; the best speakers do both. It has become common practice for organizations that retain speakers, be they professional or volunteer, to enter into agreements with them outlining the terms...

When Michael H. Paige, director, meeting and convention operations, Parke-Davis, Morris Plains, NJ, decided to outsource meeting services he took an unusual tack. "I wanted them in-house," he says, "so I could have hands-on control." After a six...

For years now, conference organizers and meeting planners have been promised the Virtual Reality Big Rock Candy Mountain, a magical place where you just push a button and seamlessly send your in-house meeting registration and requirements to a...

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What makes second-tier cities worth a medical conference organizer's while? They may require more hands-on attention, but they give good value, they're friendly, and they can be extraordinarily helpful. Here are three takes on these benefits, plus...

Meeting management software is great stuff, but it will not deliver benefits without careful attention. Read this before you buy anybody's meeting software...

It was a kickoff that favored a show of friendship over high-tech glitz. Standing on a plain stage, R. William Taylor, CAE, American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) president, and Roy B. Evans, JR., CAE, Professional Convention Management...

Up and Coming Chicago's historic Silversmith Building is being transformed into the Crowne Plaza Chicago Silversmith. When the hotel opens in December, the ten-story, 1897 structure will have 143 guest rooms and meeting space for groups of up to...

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