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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Web based conferencing - a vital component of the modern event professional's toolbox.
Pre-set
Attrition clause
E-conferencing
General liability insurance
2. Magnetic Stripe. A lead retrieval system using a magnetic strip on either the back of a paper badge (similar to some airline tickets) or on plastic badges similar to credit cards.
Conference reminder
Relational databases
Kiosk
Mag-stripe
3. 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
Lectern
Debate
Russian banquet service
Business exchange
4. Light-weight aluminum tubing and drapery used to separate exhibit booths/stands - staging areas - and other similar locations.
Booking agent
Pipe & drape
Online registration
Convention services manager (CSM)
5. An event that broadcasts the audio and/or video portion of a keynote presentation or other educational sessions over the Web in real-time or on-demand.
Specialty contractor
Webcast
Style
Simultaneous translation
6. Audio unit by which sound signals from all sources feed into one system; allows for dissimilar inputs (microphone and line) to be combined and controlled into one output.
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Schoolroom set-up
Cash accounting
Mixer
7. In-person on-site review and evaluation of a venue or location for an event.
Deposit
Scoop
2-D bar code
Site inspection
8. 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
In-house contractor
Unopposed exhibit hours
Master account
Customs broker
9. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Copy editor
Direct billing
Modified American Plan MAP
Pad-wrapped
10. An agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party a duty to do or not do something and a right to performance of the other's duty or a remedy for the breach of the other's duty.
Certificate of origin
Space assignment
Contract
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
11. Requirement of many professional groups by which members must certify participation in formal educational programs designed to maintain their level of ability beyond their original certification date. CEUs are non-academic credit. One CEU is awarded
Platform
Bandwidth
Strategic plan
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
12. An apparatus for projecting a picture on a screen. Whether the device is an overhead projector - data (LCD) projector - slide projector - or a film projector - it is usually referred to as simply a projector.
Destination management company (DMC)
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Travel agency
Projector
13. Accepted Practices Exchange. An initiative of the meetings - conventions & exhibitions industry managed by the Convention Industry Council (CIC). APEX develops and manages the implementation of accepted practices (voluntary standards) for the industr
ISDN
Real-time
APEX
Straight time
14. A methodical examination and review of records pertaining to an event. For instance - an independent verification of attendance figures submitted by an exhibition's producers.
Audit
LED Light Emitting Diode
Leko
Peripheral block
15. Platters of food are composed in the kitchen. Each food item is then served from the guest's left by the server from platters to individual plates. Any course can be 'Frenched' by having the dressing put on the salad or having sauce added to a entrée
Cost center
V-shape set-up
French banquet service
Peninsula booth
16. Business-to-Business.
Complimentary room
B2B
On-demand
Service charge
17. System of assigning points to exhibiting companies to determine which firms will be allowed to select booth/stand space for the next event first. Also Called PRIORITY RATING SYSTEM.
Schedule of services
Pallet
Priority point system
Certificate of origin
18. 1) Free-standing pavilion or light structure - often inside a facility - where printed or electronic information is available. 2) A small enclosure for ticket sales - information - etc.
Colloquium
Kiosk
Network
Market segments
19. The activities that are undertaken to either reduce the probability that an emergency or crisis will occur or reduce the consequences if it does occur.
Mitigation
Space assignment
Lectern
Uplink
20. PER. The industry preferred term for a report of the details and activities of an event. A collection of post event reports over time will provide the complete History for an event. The industry accepted practice is to use the APEX POST EVENT REPORT
Post event report
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Marketing
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
21. 1) Pallet. 2) Wooden platform used to support machinery or a collection of objects for easier handling. 3) Thick wood blocks attached to crates which allow forklift access for easier handling. 4) Wood runners protecting the exterior of a shipping cas
Skid
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Union
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
22. Marketing activities with a common focus on the marketplace or a customer segment. The execution of each individual piece of the integrated marketing plan is consistent with - and supportive of - each of the other pieces of the plan.
Integrated marketing
Pre-registration
Cut-off date
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
23. An event that incoporates environmental considerations throughout all states of the planning process in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment.
Document sharing
Smart card
Green event
Pad-wrapped
24. The station used to transmit signals from Earth to a satellite (videoconferencing).
Manifest
Webconferencing
Uplink
Lectern microphone
25. A document - required by some countries - describing a shipment of goods and showing information such as the consignor - consignee - and value of the shipment. Certified by a consular official of the foreign country - it is used by that country's cus
Whiteboarding
Consular invoice
Mailing list
Citywide event
26. A voluntary and selective amount of money - given at will for special or excellent service.
V-shape set-up
Tip
Cut-off date
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
27. A single source provider of goods or services.
Lead retrieval
One-stop shop
Blog
Theater set-up
28. Number of facility guest rooms actually used out of a room block.
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Pick-up
Acceptance
Billing instructions
29. When online activities take place at a designated time - they are referred to as real-time events. A Webcast of a keynote presenter that can be watched live over the Internet is an example of a real-time event.
Certification
Change order
Real-time
E-conferencing
30. Portable videoconferencing system - usually mounted on a rolling cart or hard-sided case for ease of transport from room to room or across the globe.
Feedback
Set top box solutions (STBS)
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Cash accounting
31. AKA CSEP or Certified Special Event Professional - a designation offered by the International Special Events Society (ISES) earned through education - perofrmance - experience - and service to the industry.
Reservation review date
Income statement
Special event professional
lanning committee
32. AKA Post Conference.Any event which is arranged for the period immediately following the conference proper.
Feedback
Floor plan
Post-con
Paid-out
33. A videoconference of more than two sites.
Jurisdiction
Acceptance
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Release date
34. A cable that is made up of tiny glass strands that are wrapped and bundled together to make up a cable. Fiber can transmit voice - data and video at gigabyte speed - or 1 billion bytes per second - with less signal loss than copper wire because the s
Facilitator
Peninsula booth
Fiber-optic cable
ISDN
35. A feature of many videoconferencing systems that allows two or more people to use the same software program - even if all do not have it on their computer or conferencing system.
Application sharing
Certificate of insurance
Set top box solutions (STBS)
Caterer
36. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
Certification
Clause
Secure digital certificate
Production company
37. A government document which permits the "licensee" to engage in the export of designated goods to certain destinations.
VHS Video Home System
Export license
Fixed costs
Offer
38. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Island booth
Billing instructions
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Smart card
39. The projection of a computer signal from a personal computer - laptop or other computer device onto a screen from a LCD or equivalent projector for viewing by audience.
Hand carry
Computer data projection
Pre-con
Pay-per-view
40. 1) The opposite of real-time. 2) Audio and/or video programming available on a Web site after the completion of an event - providing this content so Web site visitors can listen or view at their discretion. 3) FAX system for sending out faxed materia
Advance registration
Backwall
Arbitration
On-demand
41. Raised platform usually above the floor of a hall or large room.
E-conferencing
Less than truckload
Dais
Contract
42. Actual number of meals served at a catered meal function or in a restaurant. See AUDIENCE COUNT.
Intelligent lighting
Scoop
Audience reaction team
Covers
43. An informal meeting for the purpose of discussion; usually of an academic or research nature and in order to ascertain areas of mutual interest through exchange of ideas. Conducted as and when convenient - but with little regularity.
Unopposed exhibit hours
Fishbowl
Attrition clause
Colloquium
44. Items that an exhibitor is allowed to carry unaided into a event facility without being charged.
Hand carry
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
Pick-up
Minimum labor call
45. A pre-cut - etched pattern fabricated from metal or glass that fits in the focal plane of a lighting instrument to form projected light into a shape (logo - graphic or even scenery). Templates can form light images on ceilings and walls. The pattern
Gobo
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Message board
Site inspection
46. Raising and supporting sound - lighting or other equipment or décor from the ceiling.
Cash bar
Audience reaction team
Flying
Value-added tax (VAT)
47. Carrier that specializes in shipping uncrated exhibits - high-tech equipment and delicate materials that require special handling.
Certificate of insurance
Van line
Exhibition manager
Real-time
48. A group of voluntary committee members with vested interests in program content who are commonly used to establish direction for educational programs offered at association meetings.
ducational programming committee
Scoop
Resolution
Cancellation clause
49. A list - whether printed or electronic - by which an event organizer and/or their designates (e.g. a housing bureau) delivers multiple reservations to a hotel or other housing facility. Often the information contained in a rooming list is originally
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Webconferencing
Flying
Rooming list
50. BEO. A form most often used by hotels to provide details to personnel concerned with a specific food and beverage function or event room set-up.
Platform
Audience polling
Whiteboarding
Banquet event order (BEO)