Monday,July 9th, 2012

Is This the End of the Room Block?

I love Michell Beer’s commentaries in Association Meetings. One called Is This the End of the Room Block? struck me. With attrition being such a fear, and estimating your block years ahead of time being so difficult, not having to deal with all that seems like it would be so much easier. [...]

Sunday,April 15th, 2012

The Tale of the Idiot Sponsor

Mitchell Beer wrote this commentary for Association Meetings about a games retailer’s awards event in which representatives of the headline sponsor did not act very business-like. Beer wrote:

“Blogger Bulent Yusef told the story of an on-site presence that was a monumental portrait in tastelessness, complete with scantily clad models and dwarves (I’m not [...]

Monday,February 27th, 2012

Connect with your Attendees: Social Media for Meetings

By Guest Blogger Crysta Anderson, Social Media Strategist at IBM                                                                                                            

Maybe you’ve noticed them sitting in the keynote, hunched over a smartphone. Perhaps they’ve complained about the convention center’s wonky wifi.

Tweeters and bloggers are increasingly plugged into multiple social media platforms and channels. So how can you use them to [...]

Friday,December 11th, 2009

Welcome to the GMC-PCMA Blog!

Well, here we are….almost the beginning of a new calendar year and at the start of the GMC-PCMA Blog. What an exciting move for our chapter. Having served as the chair for the Communications Committee years ago, prior to the roll-out of the first electronic newsletter, I am thrilled to be spearheading [...]