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VIII.3 May/June 2001
Page: 43
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Business: Learning the ropes of conference and meeting organization


Authors:
Donald Day, Susan Dray

Conference and meeting organization is somewhat like climbing a mountain: You must focus on a set goal, but the path up can take many twists and present as many unexpected challenges. Your crampons are your committee members, your rope your sponsors. Organizational concerns are common to all meetings—say, hosting your clients in a two-day rollout of your new e-business appliction or prototyping tool. Knowledge of these tricks also can help put together a training event or an internal conference. Planning the Assault Like competition ice skating, the end result of months of conference or meeting planning— an apparently…




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