Meeting Planner and Convention Resources

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Mimegasite
Welcome to the largest source for news, research, and how-to articles on planning successful meetings, customer events, conventions, trade shows, and incentive travel programs. There's also event-management, RFP and facility-search tools. From the publishers of Successful Meetings and MeetingNews.

Meeting Planner Tech Guide
Welcome to the MeetingsNet Meetings Technology page, where you'll find information on the latest in meetings technology, from online registration to social networking tools.

Meetings & Conventions Magazine
M&C magazine is the definitive resource for meetings industry news featuring issues and trends, practical how-to features and destination guides for more than 70,000 meeting professionals who plan and book over one million meetings annually. http://www.meetings-conventions.com/

Effective Meetings
Whether you're a newcomer to meetings or a seasoned pro, the EffectiveMeetings.com resource center offers hands-on meeting advice for every possible situation. Plus, our sage advisor, the Meeting Guru, will help solve your meeting dilemmas

Meeting Technology Expo
Meetings Technology Expo is an event designed to be the most practical, hands-on, in-depth technology education ever offered, with the unparalleled opportunity to get highly tailored advice on which technology solutions are best suited to each planner's particular situation.

Meeting source
http://www.meetingsource.com/
Helps you find the right place for your meeting. Conference center, conference venue.

B-There.com
http://www.b-there.com/default.asp
The only fully-integrated system providing e-commerce solutions for meeting planner and event organizer. The system saves time, money and offers revenue- generating opportunities.

BigYellow.com
http://www.bigyellow.com
Find People, Businesses, Global Directories. Find almost anyone with the click of a button! Also news, weather, conference venue and travel information.

Convention Planner.Com
http://www.conventionplanner.com/
A great resource for corporate event planning, finding hotels, the perfect conference center and rental cars.

Corbinball.com
http://corbinball.com/
The Meeting Technology Headquarters: The worlds most comprehensive site about meeting planning and events technology.

Event Planner.com
http://www.eventplanner.com/
Provides free, easy access to information needed to plan a meeting, event, or convention. Companion web sites Eventannouncer.com and travelannouncer.com

Equipment rental.com
http://equipmentrental.com/
Equipment and rental rates, availability, and more.

Rental Site
http://www.rentalsite.com/index.php3/view_all/show_Special%20Event/
the leading directory of rental service providers online. Browse our directory of rental companies to locate equipment rentals online and find those suppliers that meet your rental needs in your area. You can send the companies a rental quote request or click through to each company's website.

GuideStar Communications
http://www.guidestarco.com/
Meeting Productivity Process (MPP) assists meeting managers to improve and measure the results of their large group meetings. For over a decade, MPP-driven meetings have produced dramatic measured meeting results.

HotelGuide.Com
http://www.hotelguide.com/
Find accommodation anywhere using Hotelguide. The largest hotel directory on the internet. Includes Hotel Discounts and Golf Courses.

HotelResource.com
http://www.hotelresource.com/
A hotel and hospitality industry resource, all of hotel and hospitality on the web. Featuring industry links, latest news, events, job opportunities and more.

Infolab.com
http://www.infolab.com/
emark Solutions: Tactical Marketing Resources dedicated to maximize response levels across any campaign - driving the highest possible return on your marketing and sales investment.

MeetHead.com
http://www.meathead.com/
This is the web resource for meeting planners and the suppliers that service them. By utilizing MeetHead's online accounting, calendering and management tools, meeting planners and suppliers are able to communicate directly as well as negotiate, contract and coordinate their business real time.

Meetings 411
http://www.meetingsfocus.com/default.asp?from=411
A premier tool for meeting planners. Search for Hotels/Venues, suppliers, create and send RFP's, and reverse auctions. Also Features SPA Meetings!

RSVP Service
http://www.rsvp-america.com/

Specialeventsite.com
http://www.specialeventsite.com/
Features books for event professionals. Industry information and industry links. PLUS some great articles!

Meeting Expectations
http://www.meetingexpectations.com
A full service association management, event marketing, and conference and trade show planning company.

My Supplier
http://www.my-supplier.com
Provides the Awards and Recognition, Embellishments, Markings and all-graphics buyer a convenient, centralized one-stop Internet access to various industry companies information, equipment and supplies.

Audience response systems and more:
http://www.optiontechnologies.com

Convention Management Company
http://www.pcma.org/

Videographer
Doug Via
DVMultimedia, Inc.
www.dvmultimedia.com

Webcast service
http://www.you-niversity.com/

International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus
http://www.iacvb.org/
This is a well established, international organization offering services to members and meeting professionals.

Professional Convention Management Association
http://www.pcma.org/
A well rounded site touted as the leading association for meetings education.

e-Corporate Gifts
http://www.ecorporategifts.com/
An extensive selection of corporate and business gifts.

Meeting Wizard.org
http://www.meetingwizard.org/

MC-2 Online
Leading US based event management, planning, production and communication company with international services and a snazzy style that provides exhibits, meetings, events and interactive media production services. This site is worth a look around.

Smith, Bucklin and Associates
Helpful site showcases world's largest association management and professional services firm. Offers practical and comprehensive information, and is another site to watch.

Kellen
Kellen corporate provides meetings, exhibits and communications management and planning services to associations and companies. Site showcases HQ services for conferences,expositions and trade shows worldwide.

CON-TRAC
Helpful site that offers a comprehensive meeting planning, tracking, reference, and administrative tool. Well done descriptions of services and resource links.

Exhibitornet
Leading trade show organization for exhibit designers, producers and convention marketing professionals. The online magazine and educational program are an effective publication and information source for industry professionals.

Excel Decorators
Excel Decorators is a Convention Services Company providing a full array of meeting, convention, and exposition services to trade show managers and exhibitors alike..

Trade Show Central
Trade event promoter's site offers comprehensive world-wide conference listings and has useful features for potential conference attendees and exhibitors looking for shows.

The Meeting and Event Planning Center
Site contains information on hotels,conference facilities and related services and has a bid center where meeting planners can request event services and information via email.

Event Planner
Online information on conference vendors in visitor and convention bureaus of the United States. Updated and useful resources for both planners and suppliers.

ExpoWorld
ExpoWorld.net is another must see site for conference planners and suppliers. Run....don't walk to this site and sign up for the free newsletter. Nice site for finding convention and trade show information worldwide.

Miller Freeman
Miller Freeman is a leader in the trade publishing and exhibitions business. A division of United News & Media, an international media and information group. Based in the UK, it is well designed and features an optional Viscape plugin to view the enhanced 3D site.

Meeting Professionals International
Site has up-to-date interactive conference resources for its 17,000 international members. This is the industry leader and reflects a first class must see site.

Fusion Productions
First class site. Savvy technology and leading alliances for association and corporation management of meetings, communications, and technology programs.

American Society of Association Executives
ASAE members are the world's leading associations and nonprofit organizations based in the US. Associates are companies providing products and services to the industry. Contains well organized and helpful industry information.

Meetings Industry Mall
Leading industry site with expanded and helpful updates of professional connections for planners and suppliers. Well designed, it offers articles and highlights for MPI, ASAE, and PCMA member events. A site to watch.

PCMA
The Professional Convention Management Association is a leader in providing educational programs for meeting professionals. Check out the easy-to-use national resource for donations of leftover food and products from conventions, called NFTN. This is a nice reflection of PCMA's goals and membership, and is a site to watch.

Successful Meetings
The online version of a conference professionals magazine. Industry leader Bill Publications' focus is on education and an inside calendar of events.

Virtual Community of Associations
VCA is a directory of trade and professional associations in the US. Currently, it is developing online services and resources for the association industry.

EverythingShowbiz
EverythingShowbiz.com is an easy-to-use free search engine in the entertainment industry. The site is designed for producers and suppliers, and offers free classifieds and discussion forums. It is a site to watch from Stage One Production in Florida.

EventSource
Very effective site for planners to use in getting hotels, and for convention suppliers using the online BookIt! e-commerce service. This site offers an event planning search engine that is comprehensive and especially useful for researching incentive and business meetings. This a site to watch.

CIMPA
The Connected International Meeting Professionals Association is a newly formed internet community of meeting and incentive planners and suppliers. The site offers resources and shares tools, information and ideas. This is an up and coming site to watch with job leads, book buying services, a certification process and more.

StarCite,Inc.
StarCite, Inc. is the largest on-demand global meetings management company in the $300 billion global marketplace for corporate meetings and events. Processing more than 3.5 million attendee registrations a year and delivering over $5 billion in revenue opportunities annually to meeting suppliers, StarCite brings together buyers and suppliers of meeting-related services on an unprecedented scale; delivering value through world class technology and services to both audiences.

ConventionBureaus.com
The Convention Bureau and National Tourist Office offers a very helpful web site on information for planning corporate meetings, conferences, conventions and trade shows in any locality worldwide. Includes an online request for proposal (RFP) that will be reviewed by an official ConventionBureaus.com representative within 24 hours.

George Little Management,Inc.
Impressive exposition management web site. GLM produces quality trade shows for the gift and other industries, and includes event shows and conference management.

Reed Exhibition Companies
Reed Elsevier plc is a leading international organizer of trade and public shows. This is a well done site with useful descriptions of publishing, business development and event management services from a leading London-based company.

HotelView
This nicely designed site offers the closest thing to a visit before leaving home. From Visual Data Travel Group, this site provides hotel and travel tools that can be easily used by event planners as well as anyone planning a family vacation.

Event Web
A lot going on from travel to hotels to speakers. Run, don't walk, to this site and sign up for the weekly reviews. A leading edge and must-read news list for the meetings industry.

Presentation Solutions,Inc.
Our goal is to help you deliver outstanding presentations, which reflect positively on your organization and on you personally! On this site, you will see outstanding presentation products from the best manufacturers in the industry, and you will probably learn about a few remarkable new presentation products that you never knew existed!

World Congress,LLC
Helpful information on this international business conference and exposition producer. Corporate sponsorship of events for business information and development.

Corporate Meetings and Incentives
An online version of the industry magazine. This is a focused site for several industries and includes updated articles plus a calendar of national and international events.