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THE ENERGY OF MANY Same Name, New World OUR TEAM HERE AT MPI RECENTLY WENT can quickly select criterion that narrows THROUGH A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING of global down their search and saves them time. proportions to bring our members together and Or try this experiment: Log on and search to connect them to amazing content. While you “value,” and in seconds members have may think I’m talking about the annual World access to reports, white papers, audio ﬁles, Education Congress happening in Vancouver as presentations, videos, handbooks and much I write this, you’d be incorrect. more to help prove the value of events and I’m talking about the newly re-designed and meetings. enhanced MPIWeb.org. I believe that what this This project has truly been about innovawebsite accomplishes for our members is truly tion and enhancing our members’ value so outstanding. For the ﬁrst time, MPI’s online that MPIWeb.org becomes the resource for resource for our members is focused on their your educational content needs. And then needs by making the site a lot less about us and we decided to take this to the next level much more about the thousands of items of with an enhanced online community that content that are available literally within a few takes the best elements from popular social clicks of the mouse. networking sites and brings them to life with We speciﬁcally chose to create a site based MPI style. around the content and educational offerings I encourage you to log on and experiwithin our core thought leadership initiaence what was created for you tives. Between corporate social responsiby a very passionate team of bility, technology, business of meetings, innovative professionals. effective meetings, research and tools and career development, our members have unprecedented access to the content that can help them innovate, create and practice smart business. We’ve followed the lead from experts outside of our ﬁeld to better align what we have to offer in a signiﬁcantly enhanced user experience. If you’ve ever used iTunes or Apple sites, you’ll ﬁnd our new Power Search very familiar. In an GREG LOHRENTZ is chief financial officer/chief operating intuitive way, officer for MPI. He can be reached at glohrentz@mpiweb.org. website users 10 one+ 08.10 > The MPI Foundation continues its drive to provide innovative, career-building thought leadership development through the following key industry partnerships. Corporate Social Responsibility InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is supporting a ﬁve-year CSR initiative to help meeting and event industry professionals achieve sustainable organizational success through development of training, certiﬁcation, reporting tools and a CSR research center. Value of Meetings Reed Travel Exhibitions through AIBTM is dedicated to studying and understanding the appreciable business value of meetings through key research ﬁndings. This will culminate at AIBTM in Baltimore, June 2011. Future of Meetings Jumeirah is focused on studying and understanding the future of meetings through the Meetings Outlook Research Initiative. Omni Hotels is focused on studying and understanding the future of meetings technology through the Meetings Outlook Research Initiative. PSAV is focused on studying and understanding the future of meetings technology through the Meetings Outlook Research Initiative. http://www.MPIWeb.org http://www.MPIWeb.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of One + August 2010

One + August 2010
Contents
Energy of Many
Impressions
Know Thy Competition
Agenda
Focus
Overheard
It’s Easier Being Green
Sign and Trade
Thoughts + Leaders
Top Spots
Connections
Irrelevant
No Thanks, No Favors
All Together Now
It Was Always Social
The Shoe Did Not Fit
Deep in the Soul of Texas
The Big Green Apple
The City with a Thorn in its Side
The S Word
Sound Potential
Slick Business
Dan Pink Loves Work
Strategic Shift
Your Community
Making a Difference
Until We Meet Again

One + August 2010