The Arctic is changing so quickly that it’s become one of the many early warning systems for global climate change. Each year brings new reports of ice sheets breaking off[…]
There’s an interesting discussion brewing over at Sound Connections, the online home of The Conference Publishers’ intrepid podcast consultant Mark Blevis. Wherever you come down in the debate between evidence-based[…]
Vermont will always be one of my favourite places in the world. The three summers I spent at summer camp near Salisbury, VT as a child were not 100% happy,[…]
TORONTO—When more than 70 million participants attend 671,000 meetings in one year, your first reaction might be that everybody needs to get out a little more. But when it turns[…]
FROM THE MPI CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS—Our first set of news capsules from MPI’s World Education Congress is now online, and I can’t seem to stop grinning. It’s been a[…]
AT THE MPI CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS—A meeting planner friend used to tell the story of the moment her former boss began to take her seriously. For years, he’d fallen[…]
Last February our professional association, Meeting Professionals International (MPI), attached the title MeetDifferent to its annual North American Professional Education Conference. The intent was to bring together ideas and strategies[…]
Higher air fares, fewer flights, and rising supply costs are the new reality for conferences around the world. Live meetings will survive the crunch because there is still no more[…]
The client is always right. So when a meeting organizer told me firmly that she saw no purpose in a post-conference blog, I stopped to listen. Our team has spent[…]