Creative venues can yield creative thinking. But how to know what’s out there beyond the hotel breakout room? One way is to search EVENTup, a Web site listing unique offsite venues in cities across the U.S. The roster already has surpassed...
News about the Ebola virus having infected a second healthcare worker who tended to the first Ebola victim Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital—and that she flew on a commercial flight the day before she checked into the hospital with sympt...
According to a recent American Express Meetings and Events survey, meeting planners say they expect to spend more on training, include more virtual components, and use more nontraditional venues in 2015.
The Sunday morning shift at The Shade Tree Shelter’s Healing Garden project donned gardening gloves and grabbed shovels to plant and irrigate the garden.IMEX brought its Challenge, a humanitarian initiative for the meetings industry that takes pl...
Ebola. The very word chills me to the bone. Thousands have already been killed by the disease, and it shows no signs of stopping any time soon, despite the best efforts of the Centers for Disease Control, Médecins Sans Frontières, the World Healt...
The grounds for creating a mobile meeting app are quite different depending on whether the app is for an association or a corporation, according to a new Meeting Professionals International/DoubleDutch survey.
A quarter of association meeting pr...
There's an interesting article in Forbes called, "Leadership Style: If You're Going to be a Jerk, Be One All the Time," that explores how even a predictably bad situation can make people feel more secure and happy than one where people don't know...
I know this industry has its fair share of awards programs, but with all the Nobel Prize excitement happening now, wouldn't it be nice to see your accomplishments get the same level of hoopla? While the meetings industry has not, to my knowledge...
