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Are you sick and tired of talking heads, PowerPoint abuse, boring, nasty, irritating meetings that suck the life out of everyone in the room?? Well, let's fix that! Here are some resources that can help, whether you're a professional meeting planner or just someone who was given the job on top of everything else you do
Meetings-Related Lenses
- Expoholic
- Helping trade show organizers get over bad habits, one day at a time, by tradeshow marketing expert Rich Westerfield
- Las Vegas Conventions
- Some good resources for planners bringing a show to Las Vegas
- International Business Trip Planning
- Tips for planners who do a lot of international meetings
- Event Planning
- Ideas for corporate event planners
Meetings-Related Blogs
- face2face
- A little bit of everything that has to do with meetings, events, and the hospitality industry, authored by yours truly.
- Trade Show Marketing Report
- Rich Westerfield's excellent insights on how to market events, and so much more.
- MISoapbox
- Meetings industry issues from the editors of Successful Meetings and MeetingNews
- Trade Show Blues Blog
- Tradeshow veteran Jeff Brown's often amusing musings on the industry.
- E-Venting
- Talks about interactive marketing events, but often widens into other meetings-related issues.
- Association Inc.
- Association exec Kevin Holland on association matters, including thoughts on improving meetings and events.
- Expophile
- Fueldog's take on the latest news in expositions.
- Tradeshow Startup
- Tradeshow entrepreneur Tim Bourquin gives a behind-the-scenes look at the launch of the Portable Media Expo
- High Context Consulting
- While David Gammel's main focus is on how associations use the Internet and knowledge systems, meetings-related stuff tends to sneak in pretty often.
Meeting Planner Magazines
- MeetingsNet
- A portal page into the five Meetings Group magazines:
Association Meetings
Corporate Meetings & Incentives
Financial & Insurance Meetings
Medical Meetings
Religious Conference Manager - MIMegasite
- A portal to Successful Meetings and MeetingNews magazines' content.
- Business Travel News
- Often contains information about meetings and conventions.
- Meetings & Conventions
- Covers the meetings and hospitality industries.
Meeting Planner Resources
- Meeting Planner Survival Guide
- All the checklists, how-to's, legal advice, and cost-saving tips you need to plan a meeting.
- U.S. Regional Planning Guides
- Up-to-date information on the latest hot meetings destinations inside the U.S.
- Golf Directory
- Links to courses meeting planners like to use for group events and tournaments.
- Meeting Industry Web Guide
- Links to everything you'll need, from airline information and adult education theory to space calculators and seating arrangement help.
Meeting Industry Associations
- International Congress and Convention Association
- For international congress organizers
- International Association of Conference Centers
- To find conference centers that are certified to meet a certain standard set by IACC
- ASAE and the Center for Association Leadership
- For association meeting planners
- Professional Convention Management Association
- Mostly for association meeting planners, with some corporate
- International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus
- To contact any CVB, anywhere, for more information about a city
- International Association of Professional Congress Organizers
- For international planners
- Meeting Professionals International
- Mostly for corporate meeting planners, but also some association
- Society of Incentive and Travel Executives
- for those who plan incentives
- International Association for Exhibition Management
- For exhibition managers
Meetings-related del.icio.us Tags
Books on Meeting Planning
Event Planning Made Easy
Amazon Price: $18.21 (as of 11/16/2009) 
National Trust Guide: Meeting Planner's Guide to Historic Places (Preservation Press)
Amazon Price: (as of 11/16/2009)
Complete Guide for the Meeting Planner
Amazon Price: $126.25 (as of 11/16/2009)
The Convention and Meeting Planner's Handbook
Amazon Price: $47.95 (as of 11/16/2009)
Working with a caterer.(2004 Convention Facilities Directory, meeting planner training): An article from: Alaska Business Monthly
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 11/16/2009)
Meeting & Event Planning for Dummies
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 11/16/2009)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Meeting and Event Planning
Amazon Price: (as of 11/16/2009)
Planning Successful Meetings and Events (Take-Charge Assistant Series)
Amazon Price: $11.07 (as of 11/16/2009)
Planning Better Board Meetings (CarverGuide, Vol. 5)
Amazon Price: $16.00 (as of 11/16/2009)
by beta1275
My job as a meetings industry journalist is to snoop out ways to transform meetings from time-devouring black holes to productive, educational events...
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