Through June, Corbin Ball's e-book, Ultimate Technology Guide for Meeting Professionals, is available free to members of Meeting Professionals International. The updated guide, released last fall, features 1,200 meeting industry — related...
Several years ago, I accepted a familiarization trip invitation to visit Peru and Colombia. When I told friends and family where I was going, I could count on one of two reactions: “Awesome!” or “Why on earth would you want to go there?” ...
RECOGNIZING YOUR EMPLOYEES increases the likelihood that they will do good work — and will want to continue to work for you. For these reasons alone, you'd think the use of recognition would be standard operating procedure in today's organizations...
Sea Island, Ga., will host this June's G-8 summit, an annual gathering of the leaders of the world's richest nations. And while Lisa Ray, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Office of Homeland Security, likes to think that the White House chose Sea...
Even the most detail-obsessed planner can be hit with unexpected challenges while on site at meetings outside the United States. “It's the little things that are going to get you,” said Laurie Fitzgerald, meetings manager, sales support, Allstate...
Communicate, communicate, and communicate again. That's the message, loud and clear, from international meeting experts. We have a moral obligation to give attendees as much information as possible before they leave their homes for a meeting or...
If today's jobless economic recovery is hitting a little too close to home, surf over to The Meetings Group Web site, meetingsnet.com, the electronic home of this magazine. The site features a continually updated listing of jobs for meeting...
Conference centers have always been on the leading edge of meeting properties — the experts in small meetings and the most serious of learning environments. As trainees have grown more sophisticated and discriminating, facilities have become...