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Tips & Trends

Expense Report Express

Want to know the one thing worse than doing your taxes? Doing your expense reports! Use your cell phone’s camera and an agreement with your accountant to end expense reports! Immediately ...

Tips of the Trade - Mark Sonder

Quality entertainment can raise the bar at meetings, differentiate your organization from its competitors and enchant attendees. The people that repre...

Recent Blogs

Steps to limiting alcohol-related liability: 4 recommendations

Eisenstodt Joan

In the US, the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) recommended lowering the blood-alcohol concentration limit to .05% from .08%. (If you are unfamiliar with how blood-alcohol concentratio...Read full story »

Need your meeting ‘summarized’? I’ve got your guy!

Zachary Chouteau

Dale Irvin has trademarked himself the Professional Summarizer, and I have to believe he’s the best in the biz. Okay, he’s possibly the only one in the biz, but if you’re hosting a c...Read full story »

Risks and Rewards: Crowd Sourcing an Event for 30,000 People

Elizabeth Glau, CMP

Have you thought about giving up more control of your conference? What is holding you back? There is no guarantee your attendees will achieve their goals and objectives, even if you continue to plan y...Read full story »

Destination Close-Ups

Groups will find Wichita, Kansas, a top-flight meetings destination

"Warm, friendly, all-American hospitality” is how Susie Santo, president and CEO of the Greater Wichita CVB, describes visitors’ first impression of her city. “When someone asks how ...

Meetings Topics

International Meetings
More CoverageInternational DMCs Are Key Eli Gorin, vice president of global client relations for ABTS Convention Services (www.abtscs.com), a prominent Professional Congress Organizer (PCO) with a lar...
Career Development
 No one can accuse Heather Mason, president and owner of A Caspian Production, of not expressing lofty goals when it pertains to the value of meeting planners. “My entire mission is to show...
Green Meetings
When Eric Ryan, architect of the Method brand, stepped onstage at the recent GMIC Sustainable Meetings Conference, his words rang true: “It is about progress, not perfection.” In the worl...
Negotiation Strategies
Don’t look now, but that great meetings contract you negotiated a couple of years ago may be in jeopardy. Demand for U.S. hotel space is higher than ever, few new hotel rooms are coming on-line,...
Food & Beverage
Whether your dining event is slated for breakfast, lunch or dinner, each mealtime serves up its own set of challenges for planners. Pleasing palates and maintaining energy levels—while still adh...

Webinars

Conference Centers: Sample the Best!

05.29.2013 • 12:00 PM CT

F&B and Other Budget Tips

06.26.2013 • 12:00 PM CT

Hybrid Meetings: A Planner's Checklist

07.31.2013 • 12:00 PM CT

Going Global: Planning Meetings Abroad

08.28.2013 • 12:00 PM CT

Sustainability: Green Meetings Measurement

09.25.2013 • 12:00 PM CT

Innovative CVB Services

10.30.2013 • 12:00 PM CT

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Concierge Insights

Daniel Salvatora

Hotel Monaco - Seattle, Wash.

Jeffery L. Phillips

Garden Court Hotel – Palo Alto, CA

Melissa Chinchilla

W Los Angeles - Westwood

Nancy Love Butler

Hyatt Regency Atlanta - Atlanta, GA

Going Places

Elizabeth Mao was named general manager for Gramercy Park Hotel. With a background in modern dance, ...
Hilton Worldwide appointed Larry Feeback general manager of Embassy Suites Washington, DC Downtown. ...
The San Diego-based destination management company AlliedPRA appointed Denise Dornfeld as president ...

Gifts & Gadgets

Snapshot

Popular with Instagram users, the OlloClip is a 3-in-1 photo lens that connects to recent iPhone models and allows users to take pictures using a fish-eye, macro or wide angle lens. Lens caps included...

Rock On

Monster brand, the maker of premium audio and entertainment products, launched Inspiration, a new line of over-ear, noise-cancelling headphones, ideal...

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