Everything required to put on a conference including destination selection, food and beverage, speakers, audio visual technology and space requirements for meetings and discussions.
Defining Green: What's Hype? What's Real? By Lisa Plummer - 04/21/2008
The tradeshow industry may be evolving in an environmentally responsible direction, but at this stage, when anyone can claim their show is green, one question persists: What really is green anyway? For anyone interested in sustainability, the concept of what constitutes a green show, product or service, and how this can be measured is a confusing one – until now. More
Industry Prepares for SISO, ECEF 03/24/2008
The exhibition-industry conference season gets underway shortly with the annual SISO CEO Summit scheduled to begin April 6 at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort in St. Petersburg, Fla. The theme of this year's Summit is Strategies, Trends & Fundamentals.
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Web 2.0 Expo Heads to New York 03/03/2008
CMP and O'Reilly Media, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco and Web 2.0 Summit, will launch Web 2.0 Expo New York Sept. 16-19 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York. The organizers introduced the Web 2.0 Expo brand last April in San Francisco as an annual gathering of technical, design, marketing and business professionals working in the world of Web 2.
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Educational Sessions: A Different Experience By Stephanie Corbin - 01/14/2008
A typical conference session looks something like this: A speaker stands behind a podium at the front of a room, faces the audience and uses a power point presentation for visual demonstrations. After 45 minutes to an hour, the speaker takes questions from the audience.
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Foreign Expansion: Keep It Local By Gary Tufel - 01/14/2008
Associations listen more and more to membership demands to find new markets for their products and services. In response, many based in North America are stretching overseas with conferences, conventions and tradeshows.
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HCEA Plans '08 Marketing Summit Michael Hart - 12/19/2007
The Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Assn. will hold its annual HCEA Healthcare Convention Marketing Summit Jan. 24 at the Hartford Marriott Downtown in Hartford, Conn.
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Conference Sessions: Going Online to Stay Alive By Gary Tufel - 12/10/2007
To keep their events in the front of attendees' minds, some organizers are putting their shows' educational content online. At first glance, that might seem not just counterintuitive, but self-destructive. Certainly, some show managers still fear that offering educational information on the Internet may steer audiences away from conferences at tradeshows.
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TriStar Publishes for Associations Staff - 10/15/2007
TriStar Publishing is trying to make tradeshows a little easier for its clients. The company focuses on event publications for professional associations and turns them into non-dues revenue. "We have positioned ourself in the marketplace as a medical publisher," said Robin Boss, COO at TriStar.
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EVENT TECH BLOG Stephen Nold, President, Advon Technologies May 8, 2008 Introductions
Introduction
Hey there everybody
Please don't romp or roam
We'... More
TRADESHOW EXPERIENCES Nith Sisombath, CEM, SNS Enterprises, May 1, 2008 CEM Rewrite Update
I recently finished three conference calls to discuss the initial rewrite of three di... More
Tradeshow Tales Rachel Wimberly, Associate Editor, Tradeshow Week April 25, 2008 A News Avalanche
At Tradeshow Week, our work week is essentially reversed. Instead of winding down on ... More
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