Meetings

Virtual Worlds and Social Networking: Reaching the Millennials

  • Whitepaper
  • March 9, 2010

As online communication and collaboration becomes more commonplace, universities are exploring the educational possibilities of online virtual environments for reaching the Millennial.

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Six Critical Success Factors for Running a Successful Virtual Meeting

  • Whitepaper
  • March 9, 2010

A virtual meeting is an event or series of events where participants join in from multiple locations. A virtual meeting may be held “real time” where everyone is participating as the same time, often by teleconference or video conference.

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Face-to-Face vs. Virtual Meetings; Come Together, Right Now.

  The Virtual Edge Summit (insert www.virtualedgesummit.com) I attended this week was amazing. I was genuinely impressed with the high caliber, entrepreneurial, visionary group of people that I met. For example, after presenting about how to measure...

Embracing Engagement in a Virtual World

At the NBTA Masters Program held in Washington D.C. last week, some concern was voiced over the impact of virtual meeting and event solutions on the travel industry. I can understand. The travel industry has been hit about as hard as any over the las...

Fear Virtual Meetings, Events and Experiences? Travel Industry Execs Ponder the Trend

This week I was invited to serve on a panel on ROI at the NBTA Masters Program.  The Masters is a very prestigious forum for corporate travel executives and major travel suppliers. Participation is limited to 100 each and they represent quite an imp...

Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent

  • Whitepaper
  • January 27, 2010

95% of hiring managers indicated that hiring is number one or number two in their order of Preparation importance Yet, they spend only 10% to 15% of their time on the preparations

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Improving Organizational Performance Management Through Pervasive Business Intelligence

  • Whitepaper
  • January 26, 2010

Evidence of the competitive value of business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. Fact-based decision making is spreading throughout commercial, nonprofit, and public sector organizations. The economic downturn is spurring organizations to examine ways of retaining customers, spending capital and operating budgets, and complying with regulations. However, over the long term, BI solutions will continue to be applied to optimize a wide array of processes in an effort to improve performance management and organizational competitiveness.

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What is the value of producing an event? A new tool puts the answers in planners’ hands.

At the Freeman annual meeting in August, there were a number of burning issues for the 500 Freeman executives in attendance to discuss, among them a new acquisition and a major change in marketing strategy. While management knew these changes needed ...

Up Close With Meeting Planner Connie Nau

  • News Item
  • October 20, 2009
Anyone who has ever worked as a planner knows that there are plenty of challenges on a daily basis, but today’s sluggish economy has forced people in the planning industry to do business in a different manner. “The most important thing that meeti...

Motivation Show 2009 - To Meet Or Not To Meet

  • News Item
  • October 15, 2009
Todd Hanson, President & Founder, Catalyst Performance Group, Inc. and Michael Sengstock, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Clark National presented "To Meet or Not To Meet" at the 2009 Motivation show on September 30th. This session an...