Resources for Meetings and Events Professionals
Wine Country Meetings and Events
The Napa and Sonoma wine regions offer spectacular venues, beautiful landscapes and world-class cuisine. See photos of some our favorite venues and wineries.
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Crowdsourcing Designed to Meet New Attendee-Centric Event Demands
By Jon Wollenhaupt, Vice President, Excel Meetings and Events - January 2010
Crowdsourcing is the process of defining a problem or task, putting out an open call to your community of attendees, and providing them with an opportunity to participate in the creative problem solving in exchange for some level of incentive or recognition. Crowdsourcing leverages mass collaboration enabled by Web 2.0 technologies.
When applied to events crowdsourcing enables you to harness your attendee’s passions, common interests, successes and collective knowledge to solve problems, guide creative processes, influence future outcomes and ultimately create a more attendee-centric event, meeting or conference.
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Chasing Event ROI
How Valuable is the Annual Conference? One Planner Decided to Find Out
By Jack Phillips,Ph.D., and Jon Wollenhaupt
Topic: Calculating ROI for Meetings and Events
This article covers a real-world ROI case study from the meeting planner's perspective.
Published in the November 7, 2007 issue of Event Solutions Magazine
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Lesson Learned
Rethinking the Post-Event Evaluation
By Jon Wollenhaupt, Vice President, Excel Meetings and Events
Topic: Using ROI methodology to improve post event evaluations
Published in Perspective Magazine - published by Meeting Professionals International - Northern California Chapter - October 2007 issue
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A Systematic Method for Calculating Return on Investment (ROI) for Meetings and Events – An Interview with Dr. Jack Phillips
Topic: Using the ROI methodology to demonstrate the value of meetings and events
In January of 2007, Jon Wollenhaupt, Vice President of Excel Meetings and Events and Marketing Committee Co-Chair for Meeting Professionals International Northern California Chapter (MPINCC), interviewed Dr. Jack Phillips, Founder and Chairman of the ROI Institute for an article for Perspective Magazine - a publication of MPINCC. Excel Meeting and Events is pleased to present that article in its entirety.
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SOX Essentials for Meeting Planners
by Jon Wollenhaupt, Vice President, Excel Meetings and Events
Whether you are a meeting planner with a public or private company, you should know how the best practices of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) apply to your company, and how they may affect specific activities in your department. Meeting planners in today's environment must understand that SOX is the gold standard for corporate accountability and should take proactive steps in contributing to overall compliance within their company.
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Force Majeure Contract Clauses- Planning for the Unexpected
by Donna Valentine, CMP, President, Excel Meetings and Events
The events of the past several years, from September 11, to SARS, to Hurricane Katrina, have dramatically impacted meetings, events and conferences and focused a spotlight on hotel contracts clauses know as Force Majeure. Now, it is recognized as a critically important clause that can prevent a meeting from becoming a financial disaster in the event of unforeseen circumstances.
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