We went straight to the experts — Susan Friedman, author of Meeting Planning For Dummies; Bonnie Wallsh, chief solutions officer, Bonnie Wallsh Associates, and a popular industry educator; and Ruth Levine, founder of Speak Inc. — to get their...
PLANNING A SUCCESSFUL WINE tasting, or trying to match wines with a gourmet meal, can be overwhelming. All too often, sommeliers suggest wines that you've never heard of. Their recommendations could be great advice, but they could also be based on...
At the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting in Chicago's McCormick Place this year, exhibitors could plug in their own devices, as long as they weren't high voltage, thanks to union concessions. Since RSNA is one of the largest...
Save for dietitians, there is no other group that should know and care more about the food they consume than physicians. Yet there seems to be a disconnect between what medical meeting planners say is important in meeting planning and what foods...
IMAGINE PUTTING ON a small meeting without writing a check. Organizations that use barter to secure meeting space have found that it's simple to use, efficient, and especially suited for small meetings...
UNION LESSON ONE: It's not the rates; it's the rules. When meeting organizers bring their events to cities with unionized convention labor, their biggest challenge to keeping exhibitors' costs down and satisfaction high isn't usually the labor...
"In today’s economy, companies cannot afford to have a controllable expense go uncontrolled. There’s a focus on procurement, on tracking the meeting, and on tracking cost savings," says Jay Roseman, vice president of corporate meeting solutions...
AS THE STAFFERS FILED into the conference room, some joked, others spoke in hushed tones, and a few buried their faces in their PDAs. This was to be a routine meeting, nothing special, nothing earth-shattering. Just another day...
