Tuesday, November 15, 2011

And the meetings industry gets around and is connected...

But I'm not the only person sharing stuff on Google+. Shawn Rossi shared an item that discussed advances in meetings technology. Nor surprising, mobile technology was one of the twelve items discussed.

Recent data from MPI’s FutureWatch 2011 Survey and others indicate that more than 80% of meeting professionals use smartphones and other mobile devices in their jobs. Yet, relatively few planners (9%) have used mobile applications yet for their own meetings. This is about to change. There will be a very significant adoption of mobile apps for events in 2012 and 2013. If a meeting does not have a mobile app, the attendees will soon wonder why the meeting organizers are behind the times.

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