Following are observations on the evolving online registration scene from Jeff Rasco, president of Attendee Management Inc., and a past speaker at RCMA...

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Everyone knows the benefits of online registration, but the costs can be brutal. Depending on the application, your overall volume, and the terms of your credit card processing agreement, pricing tends to average between $8 and $15 per attendee —...

E-conferencing spiked immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 2001. And it continues to grow in popularity, but not necessarily because of events like the war in Iraq or SARS. "I believe the economy has more directly affected the...

THE SURGICAL TEAM has scrubbed up and donned their gowns; press 1 on your keypad if you're ready to operate. A script during the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting in Washington, D.C., might read just that way. Like many...

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Site selection and meeting management firm HelmsBriscoe has teamed up with StarCite, an online site selection company based in Philadelphia, to offer its corporate, association, and government clients more efficient services...

New York Life has been holding incentive meetings since 1896. That means the company and its agents are part of a long and proud tradition. It also means that if you want to change anything about those meetings, you go up against 106 years of...

Is there anything more boring than a tired training video? When EIBTM, a European incentive and meeting industry exhibition, convened in Geneva in May, meeting technology observers got a hands-on demo of a promising new product called Throughlines...

It will revolutionize how news is made. It's the rising voice of the heretofore unheard. It enables plain folks or grassroots journalists to replace or correct mainstream media (almost) in real time, and, if wireless, right from the show floor or...