MeCo Man

Jim Louis, CIO and meeting planner at Best Meetings Inc., Bloomington, Minn., is one of the co-founders of The Meetings Community, a three-year-old, volunteer-driven meetings-industry listserv and Web site. MeCo, as the community is known, recently announced plans to incorporate as a nonprofit association before the end of the year. We talked to Louis about MeCo's success and the reason's for the upcoming transition to a 501(c)(6) organization.