Monthly Archives: January 2010

Sending Soap to Haiti

Planners and suppliers who stayed in conference hotels at PCMA’s 2010 Annual Meeting in Dallas can take some comfort in knowing that they already are part of the tremendous relief effort mobilizing for Haiti. At all five conference hotels, housekeepers like Elizabeth … Continue reading

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Time to Make the Donuts … Er, Coffee

What’s the best aspect of PCMA’s Annual Meeting? For this writer, it’s the chance to meet real live meeting planners and hear some of the great — and often hilarious — stories they have to tell. My first chance encounter … Continue reading

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Downward Facing Dollar

The low value of the dollar against the euro and yen is forcing meeting planners to develop a new skill — foreign currency trading, PCMA member Leigh Wintz, CAE, executive director of Soroptimist International of the Americas, told the New York … Continue reading

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