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Mike McAllen of Grass Shack Events & Media interviews Maarten Vanneste, CMM
President and CEO of Abbit Meeting Support
The Meeting Support Institute – and is the Author of Meeting Architecture

Company www.abbit.eu
Organization www.meetingsupport.org
Book Meeting Architecture www.meetingarchitecture.com
Facebook group Meeting Architecture

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Today Mike is joined by Julius Solaris in London from Event Manger Blog & Blur Marketing. Julius is also the owner of Event Planning and Management group on Linkedin.com.(which has 11 thousand members)

Mike and Julius were participating in The EventProfs Chat via Tweetchat led by Jeff Hurt of Midcourse Corrections Blog The chats are attended by event and meeting professionals. I am sorry I could not name them all. The plan is to have a live discussion as the chat went on hoping to point out the nuggets this niche crowd was sharing and have more discussion.

You can attend #eventprofs Chat Tuesday 6-7 PM Pacific Time or Thursday 9am-10am Pacific Time.

As expected Twitter went down as the Chat was suppose to start and Julius and Mike discussed virtual events and experiences as they waited for twitter to come back up. (We do understand the irony of a virtual event going down when we were suppose to be talking about virtual events- technology is unpredictable- like the weather as Julius commented)

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Today Jon Trask interviews Robb Thornsberry of Infinity Events

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Yesterdays opening session was a unique experience for Meeting Professionals International (MPI) to dive in to new technology with the stage being webcasted to the world from to taking questions from the world viz text messaging. I applaud the production teams for their hard work on this. Obviously, this type of thing is a new landscape for or industry and they went after it. The gist of the event was Meeting Professionals International (MPI) trying to tackle the economy and give meeting planners real solutions to real problems. Honestly it was very much doom and gloom but I walked out feeling like that I can “Survive and Thrive” I will write more about my experience and share some video from the event later, but I am running off to catch a session.

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Interview with Christian W Frei of MICEPOINT.com

Definition of MICE
MICE = Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions.
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Mike McAllen of Grass Shack Events & Media
Tom Hillmer of Creative Group Inc.
Jon Trask of Alliant Event Services

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1:12 MPI Bruce MacMillan extensive statement about the state of Meetings – Big thing is to encourage the media- business contacts- keep the misinformation down. Up on MPI website. Read the rest of this entry »

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This week we discuss the Economy talk about the meetings and events industry.

This week we will discuss about the Economy talk in the meetings and events industry.
:40 Tom Hillmer enlightens us on American Idol and upcoming concerts by Mariah Carey and Neil Diamond.
2:15 We talk about the economy and our perspective areas of events and meetings.
6:19 Shorter lead times to get RFP (request for Proposals) and production for meetings and events.
8:13 Will extra costs by airlines change the way and location of meetings and events?
12:05 New technology to help Meeting Planners onsite and off www.Jott.com
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or here on the Meetings Podcast site.

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Music by the www.TheDelgadoBrothers.com

Audio mixing by www.RipTideGraphics.com

Brought to you by Grass Shack Events & Media, Creative Group, Inc, Audio Visual Services Unlimited

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:55 Kimpton Hotel’s new plan to help travelers with airlines’ new policy of extra bag charges.
4:01 Hotels and venues internet charges.
4:55 Audio visual surcharges
6:30 Resort fees
9:15 Hotel shipping
11:35 Staffing charges
12:11 Tom compares oil charges with catering staffing
12:53 Airline charges for seats’ location
Please leave us a question or comment which we will try to address on the show!

Please leave us a question or comment which we will try to address it on the show!

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Music by the www.TheDelgatoBrothers.com

Audio mixing by www.RipTideGraphics.com

Brought to you by Grass Shack Events & Media, Creative Group, Inc

The Meeting Planners podcast source for what’s new and exciting in meetings and events industry

Here is a recent widescreen production by Mike and Grass Shack Events & Media. We have enjoyed producing all of the visuals and videos. Best of all, the client was extremely happy.