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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. A list of special spellings - terms and style points to be used consistently in publications related to an event.
American service
Exhibitor service manual
Style sheet
Symposium
2. List of names and addresses of the persons to whom publicity material or other information is to be sent.
Mailing list
Booth
Post-event report PER
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
3. See BLANKET WRAP. Non-crated freight shipped via van line covered with protective blankets or padding.
Pad-wrapped
Market segments
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Pre-con
4. A tax that is added to a product at each step of the manufacturing and marketing process reflecting value which has been added to the product by processing.
Press kit
Union
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Value-added tax (VAT)
5. A voluntary and selective amount of money - given at will for special or excellent service.
Tip
U-shape set-up
T-3 line
Skid
6. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is lowest. Prices general decrease in low season.
Union
Low season
Chat room
Podcast
7. A stand upon which a speaker may rest notes or books. May be "standing -" which rests on the floor - or "table-top" which is placed on a table. Often confused with PODIUM.
Bid
Release date
Lectern
Stand
8. Seating arrangement in which chairs are arranged in rows slanted in a V shape and separated by a center aisle. They face the head table or speaker.
Needs assessment
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
V-shape set-up
9. 1) Merchandise or refreshments sold on site - to individuals - in conjunction with an event. 2) Contractual agreement where one party provides something of value to the other party in exchange for something else - pending certain conditions.
Concession
Real-time
Demonstration
Pallet
10. Facility that combines an exhibition space with a substantial number of smaller event spaces. The purpose of these buildings is to host trade shows - public shows - conventions - large food functions and other functions related to the convention indu
Rooming list
Rear projection
Exhibition manager
Convention center
11. Building an event budget on estimates of potential income and likely expenses because there is no financial history from prior events available to use.
Post event report
Application sharing
Commerical invoice
Zero-based budgeting
12. The organization who provides accrediation for Continuing Medical Education (CME).
Commission
Opt-in
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Press release
13. Assortment of foods - offered on a table - self-served.
Travel agent
Room-based videoconferencing
Buffet
Concession
14. Light morning meal consisting of pastries - juices - and hot beverages. Usually served buffet style.
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
Buffet
Front projection
Continental breakfast
15. A type of exhibit construction in which the walls are of solid material - rather than fabric.
Cancellation Clause
Liquidated damage clause
Hardwall
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
16. An advanced partial payment to secure product or service.
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
Program design
Deposit
Attrition clause
17. Land-based system for videoconferencing designed to manage communication between one group of people - usually in a conference room setting - with another group or groups in similar settings elsewhere.
Marketing collateral
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Room-based videoconferencing
18. An interchange between an inner circle debating an issue and an outer circle of observers. Individuals occasionally move from one circle to the other.
Russian restaurant service
Cancellation clause
Online registration
Fishbowl
19. Risk that an organization takes when dealing with foreign currency due to exchange rates fluctuating over time.
Foreign exchange currency risk
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
Application service provider (ASP)
Convention services manager (CSM)
20. 1) The back wall (either hardwall or draped) of a perimeter - booth/stand/exhibit - or inline. 2) Panel arrangement at rear of booth/stand area.
Opt-out
Unopposed exhibit hours
Backwall
Evaluation
21. An alternative plan that may replace the original plan when circumstances change.
Publicity
Hand carry
Blog
Contingency plan
22. Required for shipments valued at more than $2500; used by the U.S. government to monitor the dollar volume of export shipments.
Export declaration
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
Modified American Plan
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
23. Insurance that protects a event organizer against financial loss or expenses incurred when contractually specified perils necessitate canceling or relocating a event - or cause a reduction in attendance.
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
Exclusive
Group ware
Less than truckload
24. Services performed by GENERAL SERVICE CONTRACTOR that includes delivery of exhibit materials from the dock to assigned space - removing empty crates - returning crates at the end of the event for re-crating - and delivering materials back to the dock
Downlink
Shuttle service
Webcast
Material handling (formerly drayage)
25. Seating arrangement in which seats are in rows facing the stage area - no tables. See AUDITORIUM SET-UP.
Post event report
Theater set-up
Integrated marketing
Videoconferencing
26. The organization providing alcohol to guests.
Balance sheet
Social host
Mailing list
History
27. Continuning education requirements for legal professionals are adminstered by the American Bar Association (ABA).
Certificate of insurance
Fresnel
Limited power of attorney
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
28. 1) Any seat - berth - room - or service provided and/or sold to a guest - attendee or passenger. 2) Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - a step taken to allow a person with a disability to participate in an event or employment.
Zone fare
Accommodation
Modified American Plan
Audience reaction team
29. A feature of videoconferencing systems which allows the placement of shared documents on an on-screen shared space or "whiteboard." Participants can edit and mark up the document just as on a physical whiteboard.
Manifest
CYC
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Whiteboarding
30. Recognizing the possibility of injury - damage or loss - and having a means to prevent it or provide insurance.
Booking agent
Download
Contract
Risk management
31. An itemized statement furnished to a purchaser by a seller and usually specifying the price of goods or services and the terms of sale.
Group specifications guide
Commerical invoice
Hospitality suite
Message board
32. Provision in a contract which outlines damages to be paid to the non-canceling party if cancellation occurs - due the canceling party's breach of the contract.
Authorized signatory
Smart form
Schoolroom set-up
Cancellation clause
33. Large theatrical floodlight usually used for work lights or occasionally in place of strip lights to light a cyclorama or sky drop.
Scoop
Marshalling yard
Minimum labor call
Common carrier
34. The style of a document refers to choices writers make that create the tone to readers. A writing style could be either formal or informal.
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Provision
Style
Van line
35. Light-weight aluminum tubing and drapery used to separate exhibit booths/stands - staging areas - and other similar locations.
Barrier-free
Contingency plan
Pipe & drape
Carnet
36. A Web-site whose primary function is to provide attendees (buyers) and exhibitors (sellers) with online tools that help facilitate participation in an upcoming event.
Trade show facilitation website
Export license
Cluster
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
37. Web sites that give visitors a reason to return to the site and be exposed to new offers.
Mic level
Jurisdiction
Line level
Chat room
38. Digital light processor data/video projectors were developed with an entirely new processor using microscopic mirrors to recreate video images and display them in a number of settings. These projectors picked up where LCD left off by reproducing vide
DLP projector
Complimentary
Audiovisual A/V
Chart of accounts
39. AKA Group Specification Guide or Resume. Spec Guide. The industry preferred term for a comprehensive document that outlines the complete requirements and instructions for an event. This document is typically authored by the event planner and is share
Exhibition manager
Tone
Group specifications guide
Certificate of origin
40. EAC. Any company other than the designated "official" contractor providing a service to an exhibitor. Can refer to an Install & Dismantle Company (I&D House) - photographer - florist or any other type of contractor.
NCR form
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Lectern
41. An individual or company which provides customs clearing services to shippers of goods to and from another country. Licensing and requirements vary from country to country. In the United States - a customs broker must be licensed by the Treasury Depa
ISDN
Rounded hollow square
French banquet service
Customs broker
42. Professional Congress Organizer. European term for DMC (Destination Management Company). Local supplier who can arrange - manage and/or plan any function or service an event.
Buzz session
Riser
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
Telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD)
43. 1) Critiquing and rating the overall success of an event. 2) Developing an event profile from accurate event statistics.
Poster session
Russian banquet service
Evaluation
Peripheral block
44. Ability to transmit huge volumes of voice and video over a network or the internet - without jumpy images.
Linear booth
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Broadband
Advance registration
45. An audio signal generated by a microphone.
Mic level
Webconferencing
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Travel agent
46. Flat rate for which a hotel or motel agrees to offer any of its available sleeping rooms (with the exception of suites) to a group. Final assignment of rooms is at the discretion of the hotel. See RUN-OF-THE-HOUSE RATE.
DVCam
Integrated marketing
Flate rate
Distributed speaker system
47. A Web site that serves as a year-round online marketplace for buyers and sellers within a given marketplace. Such sites are also referred to as business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces - business-to-consumer (B2C) marketplaces or consumer-to-consumer
Whiteboarding
Business exchange
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Travel agency
48. One or more standard units of exhibit space. In the US - a standard unit is generally known to be a 10' x 10' space (one standard booth/stand unit - equaling 100 nsf). However - if an exhibitor purchases multiple units side-by-side or back-to-back -
Distance learning
Contract
Booth
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
49. The station which receives data transmissions from a communications satellite.
Downlink
Specialty contractor
Strategic plan
Open bar (host bar)
50. An individual or company which provides customs clearing services to shippers of goods to and from another country. Licensing and requirements vary from country to country. In the United States - a customs broker must be licensed by the Treasury Depa
Transfer
Interface
Customs broker
Hold harmless