Unplug? No Way! Four Mobile Technologies for Meetings in 2019

Dec 18, 2018

We keep our most important documents, phone numbers, and travel information at our fingertips. We check-in for our flights from our phone and often can’t recall our next meeting time without looking down at a device. Because virtually...

What Could Go Wrong? 3 Common Challenges of SMM Implementation

Dec 18, 2018

Shimon Avish, principal/meetings management practice lead, Acquis Consulting Group, talks about three things that often go wrong when designing a strategic meetings management program: mismatched goals, uninvolved stakeholders, and missing program...

Two Event and Hospitality Shows to Co-locate in Las Vegas

Dec 18, 2018

The Special Event and Catersource will run concurrently starting in March 2020.

10 Benefits You Could Be Getting from Your SMM

Dec 14, 2018

Kick off the new year with a close look at the return you could—and perhaps should—be getting from your strategic meetings management process.

New Book Wants to Shift Your Meeting Planning Strategy

Dec 14, 2018

Meeting planners’ bookshelves got a new addition this fall with the publication of The Strategic Planning Guide for Event Professionals by Christy Lamagna, CMP, CMM, CTSM. In it, Lamagna, founder of Strategic Meetings & Events, argues...

Orange You Glad Your Meeting Swag Isn’t Junk?

Dec 13, 2018

Sure, you want attendees to leave the conference with your logo emblazoned in their minds—as well as their drinkware, flash drives, pens, bags, shirts, and everything else. But when you consider that disposable swag mostly ends up in...