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Meetings
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Congressional Management Foundation: For Fly-Ins, Think Small
A new study by the Congressional Management Foundation reveals what Hill staffers want from constituent visits—and what associations…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Open the Door: Should Your Tradeshow Go Public?
More and more show organizers are inviting the public onto the usual business-only tradeshow floor. Should your association…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
How to Score Hotel Deals for Associations
Are the holidays the best time for meeting planners to negotiate hotel deals? Plus: One association takes root…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Interruption Marketing Doesn’t Work: Less Pitching, More Learning
Why conference attendees tune out interruption marketing. Also: The greatest social media cheat sheet since the last one.
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Specialty Equipment Market Association to Combine Motorsports Shows
The Specialty Equipment Market Association, after acquiring two motorsports industry tradeshows, plans to consolidate the events.
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Business DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
Social Media Roundup: What Food Network Can Teach You
Why watching the Food Network can help your association, and can’t-miss tips on new sponsor placements at conferences.
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
How Good Are Online Hotel Reviews? Depends on Who You Ask
Online hotel recommendations are either helpful or useless, according to two recent, conflicting studies. So, who’s right, anyway?
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Negative Feedback: When Criticism Gets You Down
What a biting New York Times restaurant review can teach associations about responding to negative feedback.
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Supercomputing Conference Feels Effects of GSA Scandal
Weeks after scientific groups protested cutbacks to research conferences, numbers at a supercomputing conference are down significantly as…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Campaign Monitor Enables Easier Email Lists At Events
How Campaign Monitor’s latest app makes building email subscriber lists at events a cinch. Also: Facebook’s plan to…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Meetings Planners: Increased Optimism for Industry
Almost a third of meeting planners expect the number of meetings to increase next year, according to a…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Travel Tips: From the Airport to the Hotel
Make things easier on attendees by offering up travel tips on making it to the hotel easily. Also:…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
TravelClick Report: Hotel Prices on Rise After Recession
A new report from TravelClick notes that hotel prices — and committed occupancy rates — are on the…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Report: Airbnb Adds Millions Into San Francisco’s Economy
The rent-out-your-home service, often used as a hotel alternative, has driven millions into San Francisco's economy.
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Knowledge Now, More Successful Meetings Later
How one meetings-industry association is helping its members understand and communicate how global trends will affect future events…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Event Professional Learns From Getting Burned
How one event professional turned a bad experience into something others could learn from. Also: Instagram as a…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Meetings Menu: Locally Grown Flavor
Convention centers take locally grown to a new level.
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Travel Trends Leaning Towards Tech
Workers on the road love their mobile devices, but that doesn’t mean they’re opposed to less tech, either,…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Secretary of the Army Temporarily Bans Outside Conferences
The Secretary of the Army, in an effort to cut costs, has ordered a departmentwide suspension of outside…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Lunchtime Links: The Costs of Federal Conference Cuts
Why recent federal conference cuts have been a huge loss for military members. Also: Try something clever with…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Keeping Things Moving: Association Meetings Go On Despite Sandy
While Hurricane Sandy cancelled or rescheduled many events, some association meetings starting right before or after went on as…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Association CEO to CEO: November 2012
We ask Association CEOs: What was the last significant change you made, and how was it received by…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Association Conferences: Who’s Meeting This Month?
November association conferences from coast to coast.
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Destination: Detroit Conventions
The Great Lakes State’s largest city mixes the old with the new.
