Room Block
Attrition, the job's single biggest headache for many a meeting planner, has occasioned some creative responses from professionals in the field....
Six Steps to Sizzling Meetings
You have been trapped in too many boring meetings. They don't start on time, the leader drags things out, and you leave wondering what was accomplished....
Strangers in a Strange Land
Why was Peter Jarvis picked to plan the 61st annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society after Toronto, his local chapter, won the bid for...
The New Landscape
Not that you have to be told this, but it sure is an interesting time for the economy, and for meetings. Consider this: Corporate spending on employee...
The Road to Wellville
An independent CAlifornia-based planner, Marci DuBois, had to go through the hassle of finding a new venue in Hawaii to host her incentive group, since...
Through Their Stomachs
Five years ago, when Charlotte, NC-based meeting planner Bonnie Wallsh held a four-day meeting at a conference center near Atlanta, it seemed as though...
Bureaus of Investigation
Besides the war on terror, the nightly news regularly reminds us of one other development: Once the economic bubble burst at the end of the '90s,...
CSMs of the Year
Hotel Winner Jane Lobbenberg, meetings and convention manager, the Waldorf=Astoria, NYC