Fully open this summer, the Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong at the new Chek Lap Kok Airport on Lantau Island is the ultimate airport property. That's right, ultimate...

For its Pentium Three launch at the San Jose Convention Center, Intel brought together 225 of its top customers and gave them all wired kiosks to showcase products that used the new system. Set-up and testing went smoothly. Then, with an hour to...

Just because the incentive house you've hired has a great track record doesn't mean your arrangement will be a success. The partnership will succeed or fail depending on the communication channels you establish early on. Here are some ways to set...

When you sit down to plan your meeting's audiovisual needs, start with a basic question. Will your meeting be presentation style or collaboration style? In a presentation style meeting, answers and ideas are offered to the audience; in the...

Off-the-Shelf Video What's as difficult as climbing Mount Everest? Making a generic videotape of opening and closing features for business meetings. Exhortations to excel, be part of a team, reach goals, and embrace change have little impact...

Here are three scenes from the world of networked meetings. In the first, we look at the system requirements for an information-intensive conference. In the second, an event looks ahead toward connecting two local networks across the Pacific. And...

WHY MEETING PLANNERS NEED MP3 If you've heard of MP3, it's probably in the context of illegally downloaded pop music. An audio file compression technology, MP3 allows music (or other recorded audio information) to be reproduced with exceptional...

Convincing attendees to fill out your meeting evaluation forms is always a chore, but have you considered a nice, juicy carrot...

You could say that Vignette Corp. has focused on customer needs since before Day One. When founders Ross Garber and Neil Webber quit their jobs in 1995 to start their own company, they didn't yet know what they were going to sell. First, they had...

I'm sure you've heard the advertising slogan "Work the Web." And I'll bet you've also heard consultants and others wearing out the phrase, "Web-enabling your business." Just in case you're wondering how to put these elusive ideas into practice...