Audience response keypads aren't a new idea: Attendees are each given a small keypad with which to answer questions. They can pick yes or no, or punch in a number that correlates to choices of answers, usually projected on a screen. The audience's...

Wrap your mind around this one: a telephone system that screens and routes incoming calls according to your (verbal) instructions, places outgoing calls by your voice command, stores your telephone contact list, and reminds you of upcoming...

When Kitty Ratcliffe became president of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), she promised the 14,000-plus members of the organization that she would keep them "ahead of the curve." Now serving her term, the 13-year hospitality industry...

Destination management companies are the creative backbone of the meetings industry. More than just the people who see to it that the buses arrive and leave on time, they are the specialists behind the sunset dinners in the desert-the events you...

R.J. (Jim) Henderson has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing at the Anchorage (AK) Convention & Visitors Bureau. He had been director of convention sales...

Meeting Candidate Network, a New York City-based executive search firm, has added a division to fill incentive travel planning positions within corporations and incentive travel firms. The division will target openings for incentive department...

Gary Pugatch was named vice president of sales and marketing for the San Juan-based Williams Hospitality Group, owners and operators of El San Juan Hotel & Casino, Condado Plaza Hotel & Casino, and El Conquistador Resort & Country Club...

The Quebec Convention Centre's first event-an 1,800-person dinner attended by the likes of Canada's Prime Minister Jean Cretien and Quebec's Premier Lucien Bouchard-was a test the center and its staff passed with ease...

First came white boards, the chalkboards of corporate America. Then came white boards that could print out a paper copy of whatever was printed on them. Now, here's the latest: a white board that hooks up to a personal computer...

Your laptop's data/fax modem card may work fine from Hartford to Honolulu, but you can expect compatibility problems when you take it outside the United States. A new product called ClipperCom, launched to address that problem, picked up the Byte...