A new site focused on smartphone apps for meeting professionals has just launched at MeetingApps.com. The portal, listing about 500 apps, was created by Kirsten Strand, CMP, CITE, CMM, CEO at Invenia, a Vancouver, British Columbia–based site...
Technology forecaster and business strategist Daniel Burrus believes that meeting planners who aren’t developing mobile technology apps (short for applications) are making a big mistake. Mobile apps are the future, he says. And, oh, by the way, t...
Strategic meetings management has been a recurring theme at the National Business Travel Association International Convention and Exposition, which opened Sunday in Houston...
Early this month, the United Arab Emirates, home of meeting, convention, and incentive destinations Dubai and Abu Dhabi, announced that it would shut down BlackBerry data service on October 11 if an agreement isn’t reached that allows the country...
Be sure to make time to play tourist while at the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting & Exposition in Los Angeles August 21–24. There are few convention cities that offer the kind of recreation and attractions that L.A...
The economy may be on the upswing (that's what they keep saying, anyway), but I know a lot of CME providers are still on the hunt for the right position. I know the Alliance for CME has added a pretty robust-looking CME career center to its Web...
MPI's 2010 annual congress focused on sustainability, the value of meetings, and careers.
Registered Traveler, the program created by the Transportation Security Administration then run by the private sector to move pre-screened travelers quickly through airport security, is set to relaunch after going belly up a year ago. Indianapolis...
Business travelers are passionate about tools that help make their time away from home more efficient. That’s why The Wall Street Journal and the National Business Travel Association partnered to create the 2010 Business Traveler Innovation Awards...
After a ruling by Judge Susan Bolton of the U.S. District Court for Arizona that strips out some of the most controversial aspects of the Arizona immigration law (S.B. 1070), Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has called off his boycott of...
