Over the last year, I've noticed that the word "change" is being incorporated into nearly every industry meeting. No wonder! Technology is creating a new world for most businesses. Even convention and visitor bureaus, those sales and service...
ASAE: Not Your Father's Association The new association is "lean, linked, electronic, and malleable." So says Tom Peters, the guru of gurus of marketing and management, and opening speaker at the record-breaking 80th annual meeting of the American...
APEX Moves Forward with CIC Support For the meeting industry, the Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) initiative is touted as the holy grail of professionalism and performance. For Mickey Schaefer, CAE, vice president for administration, membership...
The meetings industry continues to "e-volve," taking advantage of the quicker response time, reduced paperwork, and lower costs of e-commerce, e-mail, and industry Web sites. Now Congress is joining the e-trend by enacting a new law, The...
Beyond Growth Handling more than 7,000 walk-ins at this year's event was a wake-up call for meeting managers of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference. They needed to automate - and fast...
No Way! Are convention and visitor bureaus dinosaurs? Are they at risk of disappearing into history as other species evolve and become dominant? After all, a number of new online companies are offering planners services that traditionally were the...
Meeting managers visiting the Pittsburgh booth at the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting in Orlando in August got a preview of the stunning new David L. Lawrence Convention Center, now under construction. The $328 million...
Video technology is finding its place among virtual meeting tools, from Web meetings to teleconferencing to webcasting. And for good reason: Video lets participants see facial expressions, which convey much more than disembodied words ever could...
Congratulations Oncenter Complex The Oncenter Complex, a three-building facility located in downtown Syracuse, has become one of the Northeast's most versatile, flexible, and service-oriented meeting and convention sites. The complex comprises the...
Two CVB Veterans Jump to Dot-Com Side "It's a dot-com Wild, Wild West out there," according to Jerry P. Schreibeis and Debra R. Smucker, two Greater Pittsburgh Convention and Visitors Bureau veterans who have left their bricks-and-mortar world to...