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Four reasons why you should attend professional association meetings
2018/03/28

As an association manager, I’m regularly coming up reasons why professionals should join their industry associations, and different ways to market and share their value propositions – and yet, there is still work to do around awareness in our own meeting planning industry! How do you get your professional development? What networks have you joined? Is it time to start being more active in your industry’s association? Or, maybe you’ve already had a full career and it’s time to give…
Career Development, Meeting Community, People & Profiles, The Business of Meetings
Digital vs. paper: Which will win the battle of meetings communication?
2018/03/13

By Phil Rappoport Could the fun and age-old “selection game” of Rock-Paper-Scissors become “App-Paper-Scissors?” Which one would top the other in a one-on-one duel by meeting professionals and their delegates? Can the app and a pair of scissors turn paper into shreds, or will paper still have a place? Judging by the surge of mobile app usage in the meetings and events industry over the past five years, one would think that apps are clearly in the driver’s seat and…
Event Branding & Marketing, Event Budgeting, Event Operations, Social Media & Technology
Will market disruption make room blocks the next casualty?
2018/03/06

By Anita Carlyle, CMP, CMM At a recent PCMA East Canada workshop in Ottawa, meeting professionals and business event suppliers came together to discuss room blocks. Consensus among the hotel sales representatives was that it is business as usual – if clients want the use of meeting space, they will be held to specific room blocks. These blocks will continue to be contracted with attrition clauses that mandate room and food & beverage revenue. Group business is the hotel’s base…
Corporate Travel & Incentives, Event Operations, Meeting Venue Overview, Site Selection, Travel Tips & News
Social media: Just because you can, does not mean you should
2018/02/13

Americans touch their smart telephones 2600 times per day, as cited in a study by The Economist. According to Group M, Americans spend, on average, almost four hours per day of personal time online, over four hours per day in Britain and almost five hours in Hong Kong. That does not include being online at work! These statistics highlight the seemingly unstoppable growth of social media in our lives. The benefits of this new technology have been extraordinary. Anyone can…
Event Branding & Marketing, Event Operations, Social Media & Technology
Meetings industry forecast: Hot topics and trends for Canadian meetings in 2018
2018/01/29

By Yma Sherry A few weeks back, American Express Meetings & Events released the highly anticipated 2018 Global Meetings & Events Forecast. Now in its seventh edition, the Forecast aims to help meeting professionals and executives strategically direct and make effective use of their meeting investment to demonstrate the value of managed corporate meetings programs. Looking ahead to 2018, the meetings and events industry is thriving. We’re seeing steady and increasing investment driven by increased competition for global market share,…
Event Branding & Marketing, Event Operations, Industry Research, Meeting Checklists, Meeting Community, Social Media & Technology

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