2011 was a rough and tumble year, one with more than its share of excitement and innovation. It was also a year when everyone seemed far too busy, with not nearly enough time to ponder or apply new ideas for making meetings more effective...
The Convention Industry Council recently announced that eight of the nine sustainable meeting standards will be published before the end of the month, a huge milestone for a project that has been full-steam ahead for four years...
The Convention Industry Council didn’t refer to cost savings or economic impact when it recently announced that eight of the nine APEX/ASTM green meetings standards had finally been adopted...
Meeting Professionals International has released the findings of Phase 1 of a three-year study on corporate social responsibility in the meetings industry. The study is designed to outline benchmarks and effective CSR practices for meeting...
Planning greener meetings doesn’t have to be complicated and it certainly doesn’t have to be expensive. In anticipation of the roll-out of the meeting industry’s APEX/ASTM Environmentally Sustainable Event Standards later this year, we asked Nancy...
Sports sponsorship is nothing new for John Hancock Financial Services, which has been principal sponsor of the Boston Marathon for 26 years and has had previous affiliations with the Olympics and Major League Baseball...
