Sue Pelletier is doing a nice job of blogging from the IAEM event in San Diego. I’m disappointed I couldn’t make it to the event given that it is so close by this year.
One discussion that came up was the issue of deposits for exhibit space. This is something we’ve gone back and [...]

We’re extremely fortunate in that we get about 500-600 speaker applications for just about 90 spots in the conference portion of the Podcast and New Media Expo. Our conference is unusual in that nearly all of the sessions are instructional workshops taught by a single person for one hour – something that takes a [...]

I’ve never been comfortable offering individual conference sessions to be sponsored. I’m not sure what a company would get for sponsoring a session but it would seem there would be pressure to put one of their representatives on the panel. I think attendees would then wonder if the information they are getting is [...]

For those of you who read this blog exclusively through an aggregator rather than on the website itself, this post won’t look any different, but I have to show off our new website design – take a look: http://www.TradeshowStartup.com
I’ve been looking for a way to post about both the tradeshow and the new media side [...]

I’ve continually complained about the cost of high-speed Internet at convention centers and hotels since the first day I saw the convention center order form back in 1998. The trouble is, back then I could somewhat see the justification because centers and hotels were spending a lot of money to build the infrastructure. It was [...]