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| The Meeting Professional, November 2018 |
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| The Meeting Professional, August 2018 |
Fostering the Industry's Future Leaders
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| The Meeting Professional, April 2018 |
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| The Meeting Professional, December 2017 |
Essential Resources for Your Professional Development
The Airbnbs of Event Space
Hurricane Harvey & the Blue Shed of Hope
From the Mouth of Chaos
Getting a Grip
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| Plan Your Meetings, Winter 2017 |
The Airbnbs of Event Space
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| The Meeting Professional, October 2017 |
Hurricane Harvey & the Blue Shed of Hope
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| Plan Your Meetings, Spring 2017 |
From the Mouth of Chaos
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| The Meeting Professional, March 2017 Previously unpublished "A Decision to Cancel" sidebar |
Getting a Grip
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| Plan Your Meetings, Winter 2016 |
Wicked Good
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| The Meeting Professional, October 2016 |
There are Events, and Then There's SXSW
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| The Meeting Professional, June 2016 |
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| The Meeting Professional, April 2016 |
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| Facility Manager, Spring 2016 |
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| The Meeting Professional, March 2016 |
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| MEETING, January/February 2016 |
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| The Meeting Professional, January 2016 |
Los Angeles Clippers build first-of-its-kind, pop-up club
SEAT, Winter 2016
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| The Meeting Professional, December 2015 |
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| SEAT, Fall 2015 |
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| The Meeting Professional, November 2015 |
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| The Meeting Professional, September/October 2015 |
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| The Meeting Professional, August 2015 |
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| The Meeting Professional, April 2015 |
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| Facility Manager, February 2015 |
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| The Meeting Professional, December 2014 |
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| The Meeting Professional, December 2014 |
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| Facility Manager, November 2014 |
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| The Meeting Professional, September 2014 Event Planner Spain, August 2014 (Spanish) |
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| Shindig! No. 40, June 2014 |
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| Facility Manager, April/May 2014 |
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| The Meeting Professional, September 2013 Chinese Conferences & Exhibition No. 20 (Chinese) |
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| Shindig! No. 33, June 2013 |
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| One+, January 2011 |
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| One+, November 2010 |
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| One+, October 2010 Event Planner Spain, November 2010 (Spanish) |
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| One+, August 2010 |
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| One+, November 2009 |
One+, January 2009
Between the time writer Joseph Dobrian turned in his draft of this feature and when we were to complete design, valuable sources emerged. But with the print deadline so close, I needed to jump right in, leverage a new-found source (an event planner in Mumbai facing uprooted events due to the terrorist attacks) and expand the still-developing story.
The Meeting Professional, May 2008
Via Abbi Whitaker, I was able to produce the first media coverage of an innovative social team-building activity. My heart doesn't melt too easily, but the program behind this story touched me.
The Meeting Professional, November 2007
Dealing with the occasional ne'er-do-well is part and parcel of the event planning game. People will sneak in without paying, crash invite-only affairs or, in the case of the hacker conference DEFCON, lie to gain access and attempt to record attendees admitting to breaking the law. I interviewed Jeff Moss, founder of DEFCON, to discuss when a Dateline NBC undercover journalist was exposed at the event.
The Meeting Professional, June 2007
The site visit is an important element of the meeting and event planning process. For this feature, I gathered best practices from industry planners and suppliers. As this was the cover story, the art on its opening spread was replicated on the cover of the magazine. (I loved the cover so much, the editor in chief gave me a framed copy. I'd later learn that the publisher absolutely hated this cover!)
My first huge, non-destination-specific feature for MPI, I sought to understand the differing thoughts on the buzz-tastic "wow factor" at events.
When seeking truly unique meeting venues, don't forget to check out spaces already occupied--with spirits of the dead!
The Intrigue of Absinthe
The Intrigue of Absinthe
TRIP, Winter 2002