Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the meeting and event industry’s most dynamic global community, helps its members – more than 24,000 members belonging to 71 chapters and clubs worldwide – thrive by providing human connections to knowledge and ideas, relationships, and marketplaces.
One+, MPI’s monthly magazine, available both in paper edition and online, taps the expertise of industry leaders from all over the world to provide it readership with the latest meetings and event industry trends.
As the meeting and event industry matures, there are many discussions of its societal importance within national tourism organizations, convention bureaus, companies in our industry and MPI. All meeting professionals ...
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In an era when everything from water to underwear has a dedicated marketing team, it’s certainly no surprise that destinations are eager to slip themselves into sleek, saleable packages.Riding off ...
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CVBs to keep downturn practices in place once the economy is on better footing. With news of rising unemployment figures, budget cutbacks and financial losses, large corporations and small businesses ...
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Do you recall the childhood dreams in which you could accomplish impossible things you’d love to do but couldn’t? Not to worry—my column hasn’t turned into a therapy section—but I am interested ...
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I challenge any reader of this column to tell us what a ho’oponopono is. You can find this term in fascinating book Koro, which explains untranslatable words. A ho’oponopono is a meeting ...
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Richard John reveals what might be going on in the minds of some conference speakers… Thank you chair, whose name I’ve already forgotten. I’ll start by failing to give any ...
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“Will social media burn conferences to the ground?” asked social media maven Christopher Penn in late June. On his Web site, he argued that people don’t need to travel to a conference ...
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Generating quality sales leads is an essential ingredient in the success of any business, but in a competitive marketplace that has become tougher than ever, now you need to step up the ...
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While many meeting professionals struggle with declining corporate budgets, Tami Forero has been busier than ever. Her company, Forte Events in Colorado Springs, Colo., which specializes in corporate and nonprofit meetings, saw ...
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There’s one thing that all meeting professionals have in common these days: the need for creative solutions. We have to solve problems with scant budgets and slim schedules. We have to reinvent ...
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John Gray’s popular book Men Are From Mars, Woman Are From Venus was lauded as essential reading here in England a decade ago. It explored the different ways men and women behave, ...
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Look to industry partners beyond your borders for the finest spectrum of export-quality business practices.Consider this scenario: competent meeting planner makes perfectly good travel arrangements, airline bungles said travel arrangements, ...
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What a year! Meeting cancellations, layoffs, the swine flu…what’s next, locusts? Many of you will likely work straight through this summer, putting off vacations for better times. Rock lyricist Michael ...
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Is there the same degree of innovation in the MICE industry as in other sectors? Is there a demand for innovation among those commissioning events? How are online solutions integrated into events? ...
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When times get tough, things break down over e-mail. This is a 21st-century phenomenon facilitated by mobile e-mail devices and a lack of training on how and when to use them.
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"It was a phantom of delightWhen first it gleamed upon my sight;A lovely apparition, sentTo be a moment's ornament"I like to think that if the poet William ...
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MPI Spain is furthering dialogue between hotel directors on hospitality industry strategies to attract congresses and conventions.According to the results of FutureWatch 2009, more than 50% of events are held ...
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Every so often our industry proves that it is ahead of the curve. For years we have been preaching the benefits of conferences to the unconvinced and been forced to suffer our ...
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On Jan. 12, Kaj Arnö received an unexpected lesson in international relations and the power of blogging. It was the eve of the 10th annual Linux.conf.au, a weeklong technical conference ...
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It’s day two of your company’s annual executive retreat, a time when the board of directors and VPs steal away for several days to discuss where the business is headed. Of course, ...
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What are the keys to organizing a successful conference? Detailed planning? A good team? The right venue? Great speakers? Lots of booze? A stimulating program? Now you’re talking: stimulation. Everything else is ...
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When car manufacturer Renault-Nissan U.K. decided to scrap the big bash it had planned for March, an £18,000 sales launch, Geoffrey Bartlett put on the charm offensive – he doesn’t give up ...
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"Can you give me a good joke to tell during my presentation tomorrow?" I was asked once at an internal sales conference in 2000 by Ellen, an executive at my company.
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As stock markets crash, corporate profits plunge and meeting professionals worldwide brace for painful budget cuts, one planner is fighting back with a blog.Once a month, Alison Ray, CMP, founder ...
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It’s not pretty out there. As the economy grinds to a crawl and companies slash more meetings, planners are fighting aggressively for every shred of business. Yet, David DuBois, CMP, CAE, is ...
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In an effort to exploit every point of contact available, as well as to experiment a bit with the possibilities for mobile messaging, today’s more tech-savvy conference organizers are discovering the power ...
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As the holiday season approaches, it is difficult to feel festive. Relations and friends are losing jobs, investments in stock markets are losing value and whole nations are losing confidence. It is ...
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Some years ago, when EuroDisney was still in diapers, the European media – which had always resented this incursion of Americana into the heart of Europe – decided to slaughter the organisation.
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Twenty-four dollars for online access? Were they kidding? That’s what the card on the desk of the hotel room offered.I’m not cheap—well, maybe a little—but I’m always stunned by the ...
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In the best of times, we face intense scrutiny to generate measurable business improvement in our operations, our executions and the bottom-line results. When times get tough, we need to be even ...
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Face it, times are tough all over. Budgets are getting cut, teams are getting trimmed and the one-year outlook is tight – regardless of what industry you might be a part of.
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I recently returned from my first around-the-world trip – a childhood dream – where I had the opportunity to experience hands-on my leadership competences in China, India, the Middle East and Singapore. ...
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It is a well-worn cliché that more people are frightened of public speaking than of heights, spiders or global warming. Studies continue to reveal this, though you would think that there are ...
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You know Open Space – that extremely simple and inexpensive way to run meetings of almost any size that leads to real, tangible results for everyone concerned. And whether or not you ...
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Let's encourage planners to follow MPI's example and consign the gala dinner to the dustbin of history, for it is a strange and unnatural ritual whose origins are long lost in time.
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Annoying co-workers, deceitful colleagues and egocentric clients can make the job of the meeting professional a challenge. But nothing could be worse than dealing with a psychopath.The word “psychopath” scares ...
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Are budget woes leaving something to be desired with your meetings lately? Wish you could serve more than pretzels and domestic beer at your cocktail party? Maybe some of your meetings have ...
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In the evolving culture of business, strategic meeting management (SMM) programs are being developed and implemented to create professional value in all business sectors to reach larger strategic goals. As corporations strive ...
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For years, we Europeans have been led to believe that Americans work harder than us. For a start, we were told, they are entitled to less annual holiday time—usually about two weeks—and ...
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I doze in the car during the 45-minute drive to Granada. Thomas says I snore, which I doubt. It is exhausting, though, this trip. A six-day trek across the hills of Andalucía, ...
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No.A simple word: two letters, one syllable. But those of us in business (and definitely those of us with kids) know that the complexity of this little word goes far ...
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Managers sometimes procrastinate and leave long reports and memos to sit on their desks while reading and acting on shorter ones. How can you make your reports and other documents more concise ...
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As I write this, if the BBC is to be believed, Armageddon is imminent. Stock markets all over the globe are plummeting to levels not seen since Sept. 11, 2001. The sky ...
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Although Facebook and MySpace get all the press, hundreds of smart marketers and leading brands are quietly putting networking technologies to work to grow their own businesses. Look no further than the ...
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It was day two of the convention. Everything was going fine—happy delegates, happy client, happy venue. Lunch had been served without a hitch. And then I noticed it. Rain. People had gone ...
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The Internet has been touted as a panacea for marketing communications. This low-cost and highly democratic medium has its problems, however. E-mail and e-newsletters are getting blocked by spam filters and firewalls, ...
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Picture the scene: you are a guest at a cocktail reception in a foreign city where you know nobody. Everyone is speaking Tuareg or Tagalog or some local patois which seems to ...
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In search of simple, out-of-the-office fun with co-workers or message-driven, food-infused interactive encounters, culinary team-building events can make for tasty diversions or sumptuous sessions.With the increased visibility of celebrity chefs ...
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MPI has had green efforts under way for some time, but this year’s World Education Congress à la Montréal was the first real opportunity to showcase our corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives ...
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Since 2000, the strategic partnership between the Mexico Tourism Board (MTB) and MPI has been successful in terms of sending strong messages to both sides: the Mexico tourism industry and the international ...
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