Texas High Society
GRACING THE SILVER SCREEN AS ONLY THE GLAMOROUS GRACE KELLY KNEW HOW, her ultimate appearance in the 1956 hit musical High Society had her sing and dance her way through a socialite’s dilemma of just...
View ArticleMake Your Meeting Smart
The message being debated about MPI’s future of meetings within groups, surveys and expert interviews is emphatic: don’t use technology for technology’s sake. There is a growing concern that technology...
View ArticleIn Defense of Tradition
I just experienced one of the most profound days of my life. On par with my bar mitzvah, my wedding day and coming close even to the birth of my daughter. It was my dissertation defense—the ceremony...
View ArticleFeeling Gamey?
What is your organization’s most valuable asset: Employees? Customers? Intellectual property? Leadership? Brand? I believe your most valuable asset is none of the above. Your ace in the hole is...
View ArticleWhat's Your Communication Preference?
I landed at Yahoo in mid-2000, and my new boss was Anil Singh. Right away I could sense he was frazzled, and grew frustrated with mounting interruptions. He received a few hundred emails a day. His...
View ArticleLet’s Get Connected and Stay Connected
WEC IN ST. LOUIS WAS A HUGE SUCCESS IN SO MANY WAYS. I was overwhelmed at the welcome we received by our St. Louis host city, all of the volunteers and you, our community. In just a few short days, I...
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LA Tourism Names Dana Williams National Director, Hotel Sales - Southeast
Dana Williams has joined the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board (LA Tourism) as national director, hotel sales - southeast. The LA Tourism sales team is responsible for booking meetings and...
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LA Tourism Appoints Mariles Krok as Regional Director, Hotel Sales -...
Mariles Krok has joined the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board (LA Tourism) as regional director, hotel sales - LAX/Beach Cities. The LA Tourism sales team is responsible for booking meetings...
View ArticleThe Curse of the Bored Attendees
“Engagement” reached official buzzword status long ago, but that doesn’t mean it’s an idea that should make your eyes glaze over. As every meeting professional knows, engagement—getting people involved...
View ArticleAdopting Better Discount Practices
This is the second of a three-part pricing series for meetings and events. The focus in this article is on improving how we use discounts to boost attendance, engagement and room block pickup, while...
View ArticleHybrid Across Boundaries
This case study is one piece of MPI’s robust hybrid meeting and event research, brought to you by the MPI Foundation. Get all of the findings, data and case studies at www.mpiweb.org/hybrid.When Pierre...
View ArticleDoc Hendley Pours a Healthy Drink
Doc Hendley prefers bourbon neat when fixing himself a drink, but as a bartender, he makes a fine Bloody Mary. He’s also been known to ride a mile or 2,000 on his Harley-Davidson. Growing up, that’s...
View ArticleFiddling Around
MY GRANDFATHER ALWAYS SAID THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FIDDLE AND A VIOLIN IS THAT NOBODY CARES IF YOU SPILL BEER ON A FIDDLE. Though, technically, the instruments are one in the same. Some say the...
View ArticleA City on the Move
If you haven’t been to Dallas lately, you haven’t been to Dallas. This richly diverse city built by passionate people with big dreams and an attitude that all things are possible, is experiencing a...
View ArticleThe Art of the Conference
IF JEAN-FRANÇOIS BOUCHARD, PRESIDENT OF SID LEE AND THE VISIONARY BEHIND C2-MTL, HAD IT HIS WAY, this newfangled global business conference exploring the relationship between commerce and creativity...
View ArticleStepping Forward
REENA EVERS WAS EIGHT WHEN HER FATHER WAS ASSASSINATED IN THE DRIVEWAY OF THE FAMILY’S JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, HOME BY A MEMBER OF THE KU KLUX KLAN. Medgar Evers, the NAACP field secretary and civil...
View ArticleLife Beyond Meetings
Whenever I travel to Florence, Italy, I stay at a small hotel near the Ponte Vecchio, that famous old bridge inhabited by goldsmiths and an international assortment of tourists; the hotel proudly...
View ArticleSeamless or Stitch-Up
Our future trends experts believe boundaries are blurring—personal and professional lives, business and leisure (‘Bleisure,’ according to The Future Laboratory)—and offline and online environments are...
View ArticleMarketing Sustainable Habits
Green washing is gone. It’s no longer accepted when companies say they are sustainable. In reality, they are faking being green. Customers react instantly when they come across this. We applaud when...
View ArticleKeep it Human
I have always hated online courses. Even though I’ve been a Net enthusiast since before there was a Net, I have never appreciated when intimate, real-life encounters are relegated to the digital realm....
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