December 1, 2007 CMI
Cover Story
Mini Miles
With just a few weeks before the kickoff of her company's biggest customer event ever, Trudy Hardy was experiencing the usual nerves and apprehension...
Features
Cash Incentives Impair Teamwork
Incentive experts have been saying it for years, but now there's scientific proof: Cash really isn't king at least not when it comes to motivating collaborative...
Incentives at Work
I'm in the middle of building an addition to my home. Over the past few months, I have been so impressed by the crew they're always courteous, work together...
A Sea Dream Come True
Casino magnate Steve Wynn is known in Las Vegas for a lot of things, but thinking small is definitely not one of them. Wynn was at a February 2006 auction...
Combustible Cocktail
It seemed like a good idea at the time For years, officials at the Milwaukee Art Museum had been renting space to groups for special events many of them...
Keynotes
Get Real
James Gilmore and B. Joseph Pine II, authors of The Experience Economy, the 1999 book that argued that businesses of all kinds must orchestrate memorable...
An Olympian Task
With less than a year to go before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Pete Moore, director of Olympic operations for Carlson Marketing Group, Minneapolis,...
Live The Dream
Legend Numismatics, a rare coin dealer in Lincroft, N.J., wanted to do something different to recognize its top suppliers, distributors, and employees....
Budget Adjuster
What goes up must come down, right? That might not be the case for business travel costs, at least not next year. According to the new American Express...
It's Different Over There
Most benchmarking around strategic meeting management has focused on U.S. companies until now. A new white paper released by Advito, the Dallas-based...
Jetblue Grows its Meeting Program
JetBlue is expanding CompanyBlue Meetings, which was launched earlier this year. Initially the meetings program was geared just to planners with at least...
Breakouts
The Business of Cocktails
There's nothing like a cocktail hour for socializing and networking in a relaxed, leisurely setting. New acquaintances are made and old ones rekindled....
The Tangle of Hotel Ownership
With nearly three-quarters of all hotels in the United States operating as franchises and most hotel buildings owned by someone other than the hotel operator,...
20 Ways to Save on F&B
The is the first in a series of cost-saving checklists. We turned to some of the biggest names in the meeting business for their advice on getting the...
Evaluate
1. (verb) to determine the significance, worth, or condition of, usually by careful appraisal and study I Can't Get No The most common meeting evaluations...
Sites
Will Small Meetings Thrive in a Mega-Hotel Boom?
More than 250,000 new hotel rooms will come on line in the U.S. in the next 12 to 18 months and experts say that could spell good news for planners of...
Golf Venues
Colorado Springs, Colo. The News: The resort earned AAA Four Diamond status for 2008 after a $6 million renovation of guest rooms, meeting space, and...
Florida Meetings Planner's Guide
The big news in Florida is downtown. Many key meeting cities offer new entertainment, restaurants, and shopping, while construction near the state's convention...
Post Con
Corbin Ball, CMP
If you could be anywhere in the world, where would you be?I enjoy culturally diverse adventure travel. I just returned from bicycling 600 km through the...
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