Also In This Issue

Behind the Scenes

A letter from the editor

To the Point

A letter from Deborah Sexton

PCMA Today

What's Happening at PCMA

Post-Con Reports

A wrap-up of industry events

Leading Learning

If the amount of waste your meetings and conferences generate were to be fazed, would your organization foot the bill?

Meeting Management

Four Steps to Painless Podcasting

Workplace

Becoming a great connecter

Successful Negotiating

Seven Steps to Getting the Hotel Contract in Motion, Part 2

Speaker Savvy

How To Know When You're Working With a Pro, Part 2

Business Ettiquette

The New Dress Code, De-Coded

Meeting In Europe

In this, a first in a continuing series that will focus on the benefits and considerations of meeting in Europe, experienced international planners offer insight into what they consider the three top matters to take into account when going overseas.

Meeting Budget

The Convention Center and the CVB: A Vital Connection & How to Prepare for Convention Center Negotiations

Planners and Their Partners

When it comes to holding successful meetings, planners need partners, not suppliers. And in this relationship business, the dynamics keep changing. Here’s how — and what to do about it.

Experiencing the Xperiments

Radio Frequency Identification: Is the meetings industry catching on to the power of the tag?

Leading by Example

The most inspirational individual to emerge from this year’s Olympics wasn’t a German bobsledder or an American snowboarder or even a Russian skater.

Time Out

Sponsored by Cancun

Virginia

Virginia

Gaming Destinations Place Their Bets on Meetigns

New Developments at Gaming Destinations are Designed with Group Business in Mind
 
 

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