Smart Meetings

Affordable Meetings: Destinations and Transportation Tips You Can’t Afford to Pass Up

“So, you’re Marci, the new meeting planner?” said the CEO with his billion-dollar comb-over and pursed-lip smirk.

Get Out There And Golf

Hitting the links can be fun for all attendees

Marketing Your Meetings

For many meeting professionals, their responsibilities go way beyond planning and organizing the logistics of the meeting or conference; they’re also charged with marketing the event to ensure maximum participation.

Welcome to Wine Country

Uncorking the West

Healthy Meetings: Vitamin Boost

Business travel is an activity fraught with potential health perils.

Smart Money: How to Stop the Bleeding

By and large, meeting planning is a friendly, social profession, and is full of benevolent, happy words—banquet, networking, team-building, cocktail reception.

View From Vegas

Headlines: June 2008

Select Sites: June 2008

Connecting You

For most people, the only inspiration we get in a doctor’s office is a daydream of ourselves on a white-sand beach with an umbrella drink in hand.

Meet Me Online

Internet technology is constantly evolving and becoming an increasingly integral part of meetings.

"Reeling" in Your Attendees

Imagine you’re put in charge of an organizational celebration honoring a worthy individual.

Gotta Have It: Internet, Always

Smart Moves: June 2008

Certified Success

Even for seasoned meeting planners, many certification titles can be hard acronyms to follow. Here’s a brief lexicon of certifications within the industry, what they stand for and how they are obtained.

The Palm Court at Arizona Grand

Interview with M. Theresa Breining, CMP, CMM

M. Theresa Breining, CMP, CMM, Founder and President, Concepts Worldwide San Diego, CA

Care to Tungle?

Meetings—from the budget to the overarching theme to the nitty-gritty details—are what we do best, and it takes a special blend of creativity, flexibility and experience to pull them off.

Making Trends Meet

In an effort to be as “trendy” as possible, we’re focusing on not one but four different industry trends this issue.