Author, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist Josh Linkner at ASAE's opening general session in DetroitI guess the wags I overheard saying, “I guess you don’t have to actually be funny; you just have to show Louis CK clips,” had a point, but I lov...
Theft is on the rise at meetings—keep your event safe.Here are three ways for meeting planners to make would-be thieves think twice about victimizing your booths, ballrooms, and breakout rooms:
1. Hire adequate security.
A secu...
Etouches, a provider of cloud-based event management software, has acquired Inevention, a venue-sourcing platform for event planners. Etouches says the acquisition is part of a focus on its enterprise client base. While Inevention offers more than...
Sunrises and sunsets were pretty spectacular in Detroit. This one is over the river at the final evening celebration at Hart Plaza.In my experience, few good things start out with getting up at 4 a.m. and, sure enough, my trip to Detroit for the ...
More than $8 billion in meetings and events were sourced through event management platform Cvent in 2014, and the most popular U.S. city considered and/or booked for those programs was Orlando. Florida’s meeting hub returns to the top spot...
With a strong presence in Europe and Latin America for leisure and business travelers, Madrid-based NH Hotel Group has plans to grow its meeting and event business, which currently accounts for 25 percent of revenue. The company also will make a ...
Today's guest post is by Myles Nye, teambuilding game master, Wise Guys Events.
Myles Nye, game master, on stage at IndieCadeIn my capacity as a professional game designer for large-scale events, I have mixed feelings about cheaters. On one ha...
Today's guest post is by Kaitlin Walukonis, a marketing and communications associate with Hargrove, a Washington, D.C.–based company that produces trade shows, exhibits, and special events globally.
In our first Social Media Savvy post, you le...
