We’ll be descending on Portland in six weeks for VenueConnect, and we’re super excited. Personally, I’ve never been to Portland (and admittedly, everything I know about it comes from Portlandia). So for those, like me, that aren’t familiar with the “City

Joe Floreano, CFE, has given a lot time and energy to the venue management industry, and it’s not going unnoticed. He was awarded the 2014 Legacy Award last month from the IAVM Foundation, and this month he’s receiving another honor. The Rochester Broadway Theatre League (

IAVM member Bob McClintock, COO and senior vice president of the convention center division of SMG, was featured twice this past week on Philly.com in articles about convention center management. Here’s what he said in the article “In Convention Center Management, What You

Just like Joe Camel, e-cigs’ popularity is due to the “cool” factor. That’s what Michael Steinberg from the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School found when he conducted a study comparing e-cigs and nicotine inhalers. E-cigs were also considered more satis

Apple is aggressively focusing on indoor cartography in order to compete with Google’s venue mapping efforts. And it appears that Apple is ahead of Google, because of the iBeacon technology that it has been planting in venues for some time. “iBeacons don’t specifical