The webbing of association meetings.(includes related articles on creating Web-based meetings and analyzing the effectiveness of Web-based meetings)(use of the World Wide Web)(Cover Story)

Association Management, March, 1999 by Famodu, LaRonda R.C.

The World Wide Web has become a potent tool for improving the efficiency of trade shows and conventions. Participants in association meetings expect to gain more information on their fields, as well as enhance their social and business contacts. They also deem these conventions and trade shows as places where prospective vendors and buyers meet. Such functions can be suitably attained through virtual meetings via the World Wide Web. The conventions attracted more participants through their online promotions and registration procedures.

Associations are using the Web to change their meetings for the better, say some organizations. Read how.

Learn. Network. Buy. Sell. An association convention and trade show shouts these directives at participants, making the...

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