As incentive industry professionals, we are intensely interested in what motivates our audiences to achieve, to attend, to acquire. Much has been written about designing rewards and programs that motivate and engage across generations, which is a...
“We are not building ballrooms anymore!&rdquo...
Pay it forward by spending some time today responding to an important green meetings survey. The Green Meeting Industry Council has commissioned a major study of sustainability practices, which is being conducted by Dr. Dina Zemke and Dr. Yen-Soo...
How can meeting planners create the kind of top-notch collateral that attendees have grown accustomed to while keeping a lid on ever-tighter budgets? In the past, complex and expensive four-color off-set printing was reserved for only the biggest...
The Meetings Mean Business Coalition’s latest campaign to highlight the meetings industry holds up the U.S. presidential election as a model for the importance of people getting together face to face...
Participants posing with their finished Mud Pie KitchensMany meetings include some sort of corporate social responsibility activity to give back to the community in which the event is held. While it’s relatively easy to raise funds to donate to a...
File this one under the strangest press release I've gotten so far this week: A low-water laundry system maker surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. and U.K. consumers to find out how towels impact the quality of the hotel guest experience. And guess wha...
On October 17, the day before IMEX America 2016 opens in Las Vegas, volunteers are invited to join conference staffers and local residents in an organized cleanup of walking trails and parks. The new corporate social responsibility project, calle...
You walk into the convention ballroom and immediately recognize that this meeting is going to be different.
The stage is not at the front of the room, but in the middle of the room. There is no lectern—no “front” to the stage. The chairs are p...
