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Sponsorships: What Do Meeting Organizers and Exhibitors Want?

Associations Now

The latter was up 3 percentage points from 2005, and now a new sponsorship study released by Global Experience Specialists (GES) this week illustrates that show organizers are optimistic that sponsorship revenues will continue to grow. In fact, the survey, which includes data from the top-250 U.S. What do they consider more mundane?

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Innovation: Key to Boosting Meeting Attendance

Associations Now

Earlier this week, it announced it would postpone its 2013 Publishing Conference scheduled for later this month in Los Angeles. NAA President and CEO Doug Culkin said he was inspired to do something innovative after he saw the impact of the original 2004 X-Prize for sub-orbital space flight, according to a press release. “I

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth Kanter

Social channels continued to show strong growth over the past 12 months, with top social networks adding more than 135 million new users in the course of 2013. 2013: A Year in Social Media. Another example, the World Health Organisation ( @WHO ) shares news via its Twitter account even before press releases.