MeetingsNet

JANUARY 31, 2018

Seven steps you need to take to safely decide whether or not to cancel when your meeting destination is hit by a hurricane or other devastating event. Virgin Islands, meeting professionals with future events booked in affected areas are grappling with a tough question: Should we stay or should we go? Poll your stakeholders.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

Greatest career accomplishment: We reimagined our conference model in 2005 improving efficiencies, formalizing an RFP and hotel contracting process, improved educational programming, instituted a comprehensive evaluation model while reducing costs and improving overall attendee experience. The post 2019 15 Over 50: Andy L.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I spoke there for the first time in 2005 or 2006 and had a good 12-year run on the show. Before WordPress was everywhere, I worked for a company called Mod Blog from 2002 through 2005,” explains Will. “I I went to Michigan State, which has an excellent Hospitality program and worked in banquets at a hotel.

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Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The meeting professional was about to launch his own meeting management company, Arrive, but as the events of Sept. since 2005 than there were in the previous 23 years combined. But to Kleinfeld’s dismay, his call for change in the meeting industry has often fallen on deaf ears. Meeting planners lack a foundation.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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