30 Oct Haunted Hotels Across America
For Halloween last year, we shared some of our team’s onsite horror stories, from eerie encounters to stressful situations. This year, we again enlisted their expertise as we get into the spooky spirit with haunted hotels from across the country. Our team shares some of...
27 Oct Employee Spotlight: Christina Lofton Takes Us Behind the Scenes of How to Plan Medical Meetings and Events
Late last year, M&IW launched an ambitious goal for 2023: to release an educational resource on medical meetings management. We are proud to share that the resulting book, How to Plan Medical Meetings and Events, co-authored by M&IW and Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC,...
28 Sep Steps to Sustainable Events: 2023 M&IW Summit
Sustainability has always been important to M&IW. Earlier this year, we named our first-ever Sustainability Champion, Donna Collins, and in April, we shared sustainability best practices throughout the event management timeline. For our signature event, the 2023 M&IW Summit, we continued this commitment to environmental...
26 Sep Celebrating 56 Years of M&IW
Today marks M&IW’s 56th anniversary, and what a ride it has been! From our humble beginnings as a travel agency to our recent Journey to World Class, we have grown by leaps and bounds. Under the leadership of founder Dan Neider’s daughters, CEO Tina Madden,...
06 Jul Attendee Registration Trends
The popularity of in-person events continues to rise across all event types. This time last year, in-person events accounted for 70% of M&IW’s programs; now, we’re at nearly 90%! It just goes to show that you simply can’t replace the value of face-to-face connections. As...
23 Jun Best Practices in Employee Engagement: Part 3
Throughout my blog series sharing best practices in employee engagement, I’ve explored everything from communications to gifting to teambuilding. In the final blog post of this series, I will focus solely on the number one most effective strategy for employee engagement: incentive programs. While I...
06 Jun Top Five Trends in Corporate Gifting
Whether given as part of an employee engagement strategy or in conjunction with an event, corporate gifting is an effective tool both for motivating and retaining employees and for maximizing the attendee experience. In fact, a recent study from the Incentive Research Foundation found that...