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Posted Jul 8, 2011
Back in April I had the opportunity to attend the Ad:Tech Interactive Marketing conference in San Francisco. Here are 5 tools that I was able to make use of to successfully navigate the event. Maybe a few of them will come in handy for you at your next conference:
Posted Mar 28, 2011
What can we learn from the crisis in Japan, as far as strategic meetings management goes?
Posted Feb 1, 2011
Posted Jan 31, 2011
Have you ever been to an amusement park or tourist area where there were a bunch of fortune tellers enticing you with promises of a glimpse into your future? Recently I’ve read a ton of prognostications about what 2011 will bring, and StarCite has even offered our own predictions of trends.
Posted Jan 20, 2011
Out of the mouths of babes!
It seems Gen Yers -- those young adults with every electronic gadget known to mankind, and who can Tweet, text, create a PowerPoint and play DoodleJump all at the same time -- also have a soft spot in their heart for old-fashioned, face-to-face meetings.
Posted Sept 30, 2010
With newspaper headlines blaring about the planned acquisition of AirTran by Southwest Airlines, I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to say the following:
Many of you know that my career background has a long stretch of experience working in airline sales. The last carrier I worked for before crossing over to the corporate purchasing side was Northwest/KLM.
Posted Aug 5, 2010
I found a couple of really interesting findings from a broad, new study by Egencia and the NBTA Foundation on the importance of travel policy to good business travel management -- and a few of the results touch on groups and meetings, specifically. I thought I'd share because I'm always trying to spread the word about how setting and enforcing strong policies will transform your meetings management program.
Posted Jul 5, 2010
Posted Jun 22, 2010
Putting the term "commodity" in the same sentence as travel and meetings is like adding Lady Gaga as an inductee to the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame; you either agree or disagree with the parallelism but there is no denying that it is the big elephant in the room. Do you believe that business travel, meetings and events are commodities? The term caused us to stir in our seats while participating in an NBTA/StarCite-sponsored meeting yesterday.
Posted Jun 16, 2010
Different companies have different priorities when it comes to being good corporate citizens. Your firm may be focused on feeding the hungry, while another may be into cleaning up the environment (or at least committed to preventing it from becoming more polluted). Or maybe you're lucky enough to work for a company with a wide target list of how to help out humanity.
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