Online Exclusives
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Farm 2 Table
Features
Living the Language of Business
Talking the talk and walking the walk that gets planners and the global meeting and event industry a seat at the CEO’s table.
The World…Changing
Dedicated meeting professionals, both thriving and struggling, descended upon Salt Lake City for MPI’s 2009 World Education Congress in search of life-altering education and networking.
The Touch of Success
For reasons ranging from biological to cultural, face-to-face communication remains the most effective way to create human connections.
Bold Enough to Reinvent Industries
The 21st-Century Worldview of C.K. Prahalad
Seven Simple Sales-Boosting Strategies
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 pace by getting back to basics.
Destinations
A Cross-town Horror Fan Holiday
Dallas’ Texas Frightmare Weekend started rather small in 2005, but bigger sponsors and more elaborate offsite events have helped it evolve into a freak fest of hideously mutated proportions.
A Taste of Tradition
After years of soaring attendance, the Philadelphia National Candy Gift and Gourmet Show made a move to the Atlantic City Convention Center.
The Show(case) Must Go On
A pandemic flu scare threatens, but fails, to thwart the 2009 Mexico Showcase and Travel Expo in Cancún.
Columns and Departments
In It Together
Editor’s note
The Energy of Many
Global update from MPI
Fingerprints on the Future
Elizabeth Henderson, CMM, CMP
Global View
Do You Know Your Food’s Carbon Footprint?
Katja Morgenstern
One Bite at a Time
Getting Your Business Into the Media
Steve Kemble
A Doss of Sass
Embrace the Swarm
Tim Sanders
Transform the World
Connections
Nonprofit + Hotel