Did you know that April 14 is Equal Pay Day—the day that women have to work into the new year to earn what men earned last year? That’s three and a half months, people! While the exact size of the gender salary gap varies depending on a lot of di...
Tripp and Tyler, the guys who brought you the Conference Call in Real Life, are at it again, this time playing out what it would be like if people acted in real life the way they do on e-mail. It is almost as hilarious as their first video, and t...
A new report from the Incentive Research Foundation draws on previous and upcoming research to identify "10 Trends for Merchandise and Gift Card Programs in 2015."...
Orly Sorokina’s thought-provoking post on the Hootsuite blog, 3 Marketing Lessons from Internet Easter Eggs, in fact did get me thinking that these inside jokes and hidden gems could be a really fun way to get potential attendees engaged with you...
James M. Mahon, 63, global director of marketing and public relations at the International Association of Conference Centres, and owner, James M. Marketing Inc., lost his battle with cancer on Sunday, April 5. He was surrounded by family in a...
Leaders always seem to know what is next. That’s part of what I love about meeting planning. Somehow, somewhere the meeting planner in me always knows what’s going on next. I now call that “something” my intuition.
Meeting planners by and larg...
Conference attendees are collectors of experiences. They don't remember or share mediocre or vanilla—only the extremes: Great! Wow! Sucks! Disappointing...
When you’re a huge conference center that’s hosted thousands of training meetings, you pick up a few tips and tricks. The National Conference Center in Leesburg, Va., which offers 917 guest rooms and more than 250,000 square feet of...
