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The meeting planner of the future Meeting Focus Share     At the end of May, Hot Topic presented a dialogue on The Meeting of the Future. This time, we're looking at what it will take to plan those meetings. How will the job of the meeting planner change over the next few years? In terms of career success, who will move forward and who will be left behind? Will there be new skills -- and a change of attitude -- required for veterans and newcomers alike? More
New Strategic Meetings Management Workshop HSMAI Share
New this year at HSMAI's Affordable Meeting National, this full-day workshop is designed to provide attendees with a thorough action-oriented approach to applying the fundamental principles of Strategic Meetings Management into their meetings. Through a combination of theoretical education and tactical exercises, attendees will come away with the foundational framework of a business strategy that is custom to their own organization’s current situation. All content and exercises are designed to enable each attendee to begin taking concrete action steps toward SMM the very next day. The workshop will be taught by Mike Malinchock, Principal, S2K Consulting, LLC, on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, 10:30 am - 4:45 pm. More  Registration is open for HSMAI's Affordable Meetings® National and Event Technology Expo™ HSMAI Share
HSMAI's Affordable Meetings® National is the ideal forum where planners, properties and suppliers come together to do business – attracting motivated planners from all sectors of the industry who attend looking for quality resources to enhance their meetings and events. Registration is now open for qualified planners for the 2010 HSMAI's Affordable Meetings® National and Event Technology Expo™, Sept. 8-9, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC. Attendance is FREE for qualified meeting and event professionals. Attendees represent corporate, association and independent sectors, government, non-profit, education, religious and medical/health care organizations, trade show management and the military. The event includes 29 Educational Seminars Addressing Advanced, Intermediate, Medical, Government and Technology Issues. More Join HSMAI's Affordable Meetings social networking communities on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook
Cisco jumps into the events business MeetingsNet Share
Cisco Systems, the San Jose, Calif.–based technology giant, has announced plans to market its suite of collaborative communications tools to the events industry. After several years of using its technologies to expand the reach and reduce costs at its own conferences, Cisco is packaging a collection of existing products under the title Collaboration for Events. More
Dual treatment Successful Meetings Share
As the economy continues to struggle, more medical and pharmaceutical meeting planners are turning to eMeetings to extend the reach of their face-to-face events. But without solid planning and support, Web conferences can become disastrous experiences, with even minor glitches throwing off the flow of a meeting and the live event it supports. More
HSMAI adds 'Leader in Sustainable Tourism Award' category to Adrian Awards Green Lodging News Share
The past year has presented marketing professionals within the travel and hospitality industries with an array of challenges ranging from global economic instability to the evolving field of social media marketing. Always natural adapters, these marketing gurus have conveyed their bright ideas through numerous advertising, public relations and digital marketing campaigns and initiatives. The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) will pay homage to these individuals and recognize their inspired marketing efforts in the 54th annual HSMAI Adrian Awards competition. More Green Meeting Industry Council founders retire from board Green Lodging News Share
The Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC), the global community solely dedicated to sustainability in the meetings and events industry, not only through education but also by spearheading research, policy and standards, announced on July 1, 2010, a transition in Board leadership for the organization. More
New York City launches Energy Conservation Code Green Lodging News Share
New York buildings commissioner Robert LiMandri recently announced the launch of the New York City Energy Conservation Code (NYCECC), the first energy code developed specifically for New York City. More
Meetings industry mourns Buck Hoyle MeetingsNet Share
Leonard "Buck" Hoyle, CAE, CMP, a 36-year veteran of the association and meetings industry, passed away on Saturday, July 17, after a brief battle with prostate cancer. He was 71. Hoyle was best known as the chief staff executive of Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International, serving from 1981 to 1994. Before that he was director of conventions and executive vice president at the American Society of Association Executives. More Can you cancel your gulf coast meeting without penalty? MeetingsNet Share
As oil continues to wash up on beaches around the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, companies with upcoming meetings in the Gulf region face tough decisions about whether to pull the plug -- and concerns about the penalties if they do. More B-to-B event marketers anticipate better times ahead TSNN Share
In 2008, $13 billion, which was 34.5 percent of U.S. business-to-business companies' overall budgets, was spent on marketing events, according to research firm AMR International. More
Exclusive "Everything Miami" meeting package now available at Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay Hotel during renovation Prevue Share
Meeting planners have two great reasons to head to downtown Miami for their next gathering. A $31 million renovation at the 600-room Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay Hotel, makes it a stylish, innovative venue for meetings, just minutes from the Port of Miami and South Beach. More Leaving a community footprint Successful Meetings Share
In an era where stories about corporate greed and excess are all too commonplace, it is refreshing to find companies interested in more than just the bottom line. Many organizations are finding that corporate social responsibility programs (CSR) can be a win-win-win: The employer is looked upon as a caring corporate citizen, employees feel good about working for an empathic company, and a local community gains what is usually a generous donation. More |
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