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Posted Feb 19, 2010
When I first wrote about using social media tools, such as Twitter at meetings, attendees were using the technology to tweet back and forth during event sessions about how the presentation was going, exchanging opinions and then collaborating to propose questions to the panelists or presenter. How industrious and efficient!
Posted Nov 4, 2009
I read with much interest yesterday's release of something called the Hotel Negotiability Index by Egencia for 2010. Egencia, the travel management arm of Expedia, says its Index is an indicator of the overall supply landscape and other factors in top cities globally. The data indicates that, at least across North America, it'll continue to be a buyer's market up until at least the last two quarters of next year.
Posted Sept 16, 2009
On Monday, when I wrote about Congress' current quest to find out how much healthcare companies are spending on meetings, I voiced my concern that this could be the start of more misguided criticism over corporate meeting spend -- the kind that's been widely reported on in the press for TARP recipients. But that's only one side of the coin.
Posted Sept 13, 2009
If your CFO, or another leader, asked this question, can you provide the answer? Do you know how many internal and external meeting planning professionals were involved in planning meetings and events? Do you know how many executive assistants, marketing or human resource associates planned meetings? Do you know how many small and large meetings were held globally across all business units? Can you answer any of these questions within a matter of an hour?
Posted Aug 26, 2009
Great news! There will soon be some new resources you can use to improve the way you manage meetings. First, there's a new study coming out that you can use to point out the ROI of investments in all types of business travel--including meetings. Major details of the survey have yet to emerge, but next month, the U.S. Travel Association, which commissioned the study, is to report on the findings. In a Meetings & Incentives magazine story, U.S. Travel Association president and CEO Roger Dow said that the data is "very exciting" and "positive." He added that the results will "underscore that a dollar spent on business travel has a clear and direct return on investment" for companies.
Posted Aug 24, 2009
It used to be an almost universal truth that the drive to improve the way meetings are managed in a company came from middle management. Folks like travel managers or purchasing directors took the initiative to find out how much their companies spent on group events--separate from transient business travel. They researched how those meetings were planned, who was signing contracts and if preferred hotels and other vendors were being used to leverage existing buying power.
Posted Aug 20, 2009
Meetings have received a lot of attention over the past year. There is discussion about policies, locations, and convergence with the management of transient business travel. This month in The Wire…from AirPlus we asked for a reality check on what is really happening at corporations in the US and Europe.
Posted Jul 15, 2009
 I’m a baseball fan. So remember the movie “Field of Dreams” starring Kevin Costner? Well, building a successful SMMP and buying technology to deploy it for success is NOT like the “Field of Dreams.” OK there’s an analogy here, and as you know I always speak using analogies, so more about that later.
Posted Jul 13, 2009
There was an interesting article discussing small meetings technology in Procurement.travel called "Real-Time Meeting Booking Tools: Is Technology, Wherewithal There Yet?" The article noted several hotel brand online and other booking offerings, and I was glad to see StarCite's Small Meetings Solution mentioned as one of the enterprise solutions showing promise.
Posted Jul 8, 2009
Last month I posted a few items about StarCite's Global Leadership Symposium held in Phoenix, Arizona, which attracted a great deal of execs from our client base and partners. With clients large and small coming together from a broad base of industries, we thought it’d be a perfect opportunity to issue a survey and really gain perspective as to what today’s leading companies are seeing in the meetings industry.
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