PYM Advice & Best Practices
Start at the end, and you will end up on top
Setting goals — creating excitement for a new product launch or helping the sales force deal with change, for example — should be what drives you. Your theme and message should support the goal.
Sustainable Meetings Conference 2012: The Idea Auction (VIDEO)
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” — George Bernard Shaw
Conference organizers at [...]
Invitations: Please be clear!
Be specific when you do party invitations. When you host a party, it’s your responsibility to write the invitation with as much clarity as possible.
Selecting a well-rounded online platform
Whether you are conferencing with colleagues across the country or hosting a virtual component to an event, the number of options you have at your fingertips is astounding.
Industry News
Optimism is up in meetings industry, says IMEX America
Sustainable Meetings Conference 2012: The Idea Auction (VIDEO)
New meeting and hospitality industry hires, promotions: May 2012
New hotels, renovations, expansions and other destination news: May 2012
Planner's Corner
Creating private Twitter chats as easy as !b
Do you enjoy your event’s chatter on Twitter but wish you could discuss something with just a few of the people there? There’s an app for that, it’s free and you don’t even have to download it. !Blether lets you create a private group chat room in real time. Just type !b then the Twitter [...]
QR codes: How to track the clickers
There are a lot of sites that can generate QR codes for free, but if you want to know if anyone is clicking on them, you’re going to want to upgrade to a paid service. BudUrl.pro is an incredibly affordable option that allows you to code website URLs and automatically generates QR codes that link [...]
