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Wednesday,August 19th, 2009

ASAE 2009 — A Virtual View From the Cheap Seats!

This week I attended the ASAE Annual Meeting in Toronto, but the cool thing is I didn’t have to fly there.  I was a virtual participant!

While I obviously was not able to experience the normal networking and social opportunities that go along with physically attending a conference I was able to at [...]

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Friday,August 14th, 2009

e4 Wrapup — "Technology and the Future of Meetings"

As many of you know Experient concluded its 2009 e4 Conference on Wednesday, 8/5 with a free live webcast of the panel discussion “Technology and the Future of Meetings.” Great news  — if you missed the live version of this event, a free archive of the webcast is available for post event viewing.  [...]

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Thursday,August 13th, 2009

Final Notes from e4 Cafe "The Evolving Value Proposition of F2F Association Meetings"

Thanks to all who attended our session at e4.  I hope you all enjoyed the topic.  We loved the passion that you all showed in coming up with “What will the meetings of the future look like?”.  We looked at five burning areas/questions and focused our attention on them.  Below is a recap that you [...]

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Tuesday,July 7th, 2009

Special Event – What about Bob?

A key networking component of many conferences is the special event or gala. In the midst of planning, like most, I get tied up in the budget and tasks, forgetting it is suppose to be a fun and memorable event.

With so many different personalities in meeting planning.  It is very easy to forget the attendee demographic!  [...]

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Wednesday,July 1st, 2009

State of the Industry

How many times have you read or watched news shows about the economy in the last several months?  If you Google economic conditions in the United States you will get more than 37 million hits.

The reason I talk about this is that the Exhibition Industry is not immune to the economic restraints we [...]