So you’re an event organizer and you’ve purchased CrowdCompass. You are well on your way to winning the event popularity contest because you are venturing into the world of mobility. Now you just have to build out your mobile app so attendees, speakers, exhibitors and sponsors can download it!...read more

A lot of research goes into selecting the right mobile app for your event. Making a decision might feel overwhelming, so let's start with the basics. There are two types of apps. Native apps and web-based apps. And the major difference between them can either make or break your event. The major...read more

Every year, national and international tourism professionals convene at Mexico's Tourism Fair (known in Spanish as the "Tianguis Turistico"), a travel expo showcasing Mexico’s beach destinations, colonial cities, sophisticated urban centers, luxury resorts, adventure tours and more. For nearly four...read more

Like haiku (which, by the way, lends itself brilliantly to the social medium) tweeting 140 characters at a time forces you to be clear and concise. As someone who has a natural talent for redundancy, that didn't come easily to me. However, I'd read that keeping your tweets under 120 characters...read more

Need to network, stay on top of industry trends and get event planning advice but just don't have the time or budget to attend big industry conferences? Try joining a Twitter chat. Twitter chats usually take no more than an hour of your time, require only an Internet connection and a computer and...read more

Keeping up on event industry news and discussions is vital to your event business or career. If you're using social media to market yourself in the industry, it's also a must for finding useful content to share with fans and followers.  While printed periodicals can offer excellent information, the...read more

Cvent will be attending the GBTA International Convention, held Sunday, August 21 through Wednesday, August 24, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.  This year the show is expected to engage over 6,000 attendees and nearly 400 exhibitors! To kick off the conference, we'll be...read more

Everyone in the meetings, incentive, conference and exhibition industry (or MICE) knows that attendance at Europe’s two top MICE shows, EIBTM Barcelona (November) and IMEX Frankfurt (May), is highly recommended, if not mandatory. According to EIBTM, which convened last week (Nov. 29-Dec. 1) at...read more

Two weeks ago, Cvent, the world's largest provider of online event management, site selection, and web survey solutions, was chosen as a 2010 Travel Weekly Magellan Award winner for the Cvent Supplier Network (CSN). The Cvent Supplier Network is a free online site selection and sourcing tool with...read more

With smartphones becoming more and more prevalent, the meeting planners I talk to want to hear about mobile apps to help with their events and conferences.  I came across MeetingApps.com, a great resource and portal for finding useful apps.  At the moment, only iPhone apps are listed out, but...read more