The industry's array of certification programs offers association meeting professionals in-depth training as well as opportunities to benchmark their skills against others in the field. Click on the chart to enlarge.
In an effort to bring more meeting planners into its online community, Meeting Professionals International has announced that it will offer free access to many of the services that, until now, were reserved for members only...
In 2011, two new hosted-buyer shows, AIBTM and IMEX America, enter the already crowded face-to-face event world for meeting planners. Here's a comparison
Shawna Suckow, CMP, launched SPIN as a LinkedIn group in October 2008 as a place for her senior meeting planning friends to network. It now has 2,000 members and has hosted 40 live events in 14 cities.
