MPI Opens Essential Event Measurement Toolbox

11/29/2011

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Today at EIBTM, Meeting Professionals International (MPI) will introduce the Business Value of Meetings (BVOM) toolbox, a collection of resources created from research findings unveiled at AIBTM in June that indicated meeting and event professionals are challenged with five primary barriers to successfully proving the business value of meetings and events.

The initial whitepapers are developed with a focus on solutions and examples for readers, and will address the primary barriers to successfully implementing BVOM practices into event portfolios. Those barriers include...
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What’s On Your Mind? - Fall 2008

08/30/2011

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Professional development aspects of industry association involvement are often heralded as a major membership benefit. Sean R. Schuette, director of meetings and events for IntrinXec Management, Inc., an AMCI accredited association management company in Minneapolis, MN, is a living example of professional development in action.

Schuette has been a member of Meeting Professionals International, Minnesota Chapter (MPI MN) since 2001. He has been involved with the chapter’s Education Committee for about seven years; he is in his fifth year of working on KnowledgeQuest, MPI MN’s all-day education event; he developed his chapter’s Give & Take roundtables program for the last two years; and, most recently, he is making the move onto the 2008-09 Board of Directors.

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Setting the Standard | Have you got the skills?

07/07/2011

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Karen Kotowski
This summer, in a move to advance globalization of the Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) program’s body of knowledge, the CMP Board of Directors announced its approval of a revised CMP Blueprint, hereafter to be known as the CMP International Standards. The new standards define and categorize a comprehensive summary of the competencies, skills, and abilities a certificant must possess to be successful in the meeting and event planning profession, according to the Convention Industry Council (CIC), the industry body that administers the program and awards the CMP certification.

“Our standard practice is to update the blueprint every five years,” Karen Kotowski, CAE, CMP, chief executive officer of the CIC, stated in the announcement. “The last blueprint was revised in 2007, so this update is right on schedule.”
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