Empowermint.com Meeting Planner Tool Box

What is the Meeting Planner Tool Box? It is a growing list of articles, links to helpful sites, and other meeting planner tools that are great resources for Meeting Planners . We will continually update the Meeting Planner Tool Box each month with new items to make your work easier and your job more fun.

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Meeting Planner Resources

International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus - Meeting Planner Toolbox ResourceDMAI was founded in 1914 to promote sound professional practices in the solicitation and servicing of meetings, conventions and tourism. Today, DMAI provides educational resources and networking opportunities to its members, and information on the CVB industry to the public. Click here for more information on the history of DMAI.

TSNN.com - The Ultimate Event Resource “The Trade Show News Network is the world’s leading online resource for the trade show, exhibition and event industry since 1996. TSNN.com owns and manages the most widely consulted event database on the Internet – containing data on more than 15,000 trade shows, exhibitions, public events and conferences. It also offers over 30,000 seminars as well as expansive supplier and venue directories. TSNN.com helps facilitate the exchange between buyers and sellers, lead generation, brand awareness and website optimization. TSNN.com enjoys over 60,000 site visitors monthly and has over 137,000 registered members.
Please contact Seng Weiland at 262-754-6920 or sweiland@tsnn.com with any questions or comments

Meeting-SimpliCity.com - Meeting Planner Toolbox Resource Meeting-SimpliCity.com Your ONE-STOP website for Busy Meeting & Event Planners...for Creative Ideas, Helpful Tips & NEW & Affordable Venues, Plus it's FREE! Busy Planners, Get The Planner's Advantage Working for You click to www.Meeting-SimpliCity.com!

ConventionPlanit.com - Meeting Planner Toolbox ResourceConventionPlanit.com is a registry-free and commission-free Web portal designed by meeting professionals for meeting professionals. It offers a wealth of resources, including instant online searches for destinations, hotel properties, meeting facilities, special event venues, and service providers, plus links to all industry organizations and trade press, news updates, calendar listings, and more. To learn more, visit www.conventionplanit.com

USAE - Meeting Planner Toolbox ResourceUSAE is published weekly as well as daily at selected association industry conventions. Weekly, USAE is a paid circulation publication' reaching more than 2,000 readers nationwide. Daily' USAE is published at major association conventions and meetings. These “Show Daily” Issues are distributed by hotel bell staff to attendees at all major convention hotels; circulated at the registration area and throughout the exhibit; and mailed to USAE subscribers as well as a bonus mailing of approximately 5,000 association executives.

Smart Meetings magazine is owned and operated by Bright Business Media, LLC.
Edited for meeting professionals, the magazine offers industry news and columns. It also highlights destinations, hotels and resorts, as well as new convention and conference centers. It additionally addresses operational issues such as managing budgets, planning menus and working with meetings technology. Bright Business Media, LLC is located in Sausalito, CA and can be seen online at www.smartmtgs.com.

Strategic Partners - EmpowermintOfficial Meeting Facilities Guide (OMFG) is the industry’s leading meeting planning print directory for the most active meeting professionals. OMFG.com offers an enhanced Internet version of the product as a global resource for meeting planners. Both products feature detail-intensive formatted listings of Meeting Facilities, Convention Centers, Resorts, Convention Visitors Bureaus, and Destination Reports. OMFG and omfg.com each highlight the unique attributes, contact information, pricing and available services of a facility that are vital to planners when making site selections.