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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. An electronic message center or online discussion group - usually serving a special-interest group. They allow you to review messages left by others - and leave your own message if you choose. Also known as bulletin board systems or electronic forum.
Message board
Scoop
Liquidated damage clause
Interview
2. The organization who provides accrediation for Continuing Medical Education (CME).
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
Inducements
Attrition clause
3. A discussion which takes place within a meeting - a public or private sitting or in one of the various types of assembly or meeting.
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Debate
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Hundredweight (CWT)
4. A Web-based form that can be designed to guide the user through the process of completing the form and can alert the user to errors.
Smart form
Destination Marketing Association International
Booking agent
Cash accounting
5. 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
Hand carry
Gobo
Audiovisual A/V
Trade-out
6. 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.
Lectern
Gratuity
Pallet
Minimum labor call
7. 1) Servers offer a variety of both hot and cold hors d'oeuvres on platters to guests at receptions. 2) A style of table service where guests serve themselves from platters presented by the server. 3) Specialized in-room service offered by a hotel.
Butler service
Gratuity
ISDN
Mailing list
8. A type of digital telecommunication line that provides high speed internet access for mulitple users.
Lead retrieval
Trade show facilitation website
2-D bar code
ISDN
9. Categorization of people - organizations or businesses by professional discipline or primary areas of interest for the purposes of sales analysis or assignment.
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
DSL
Needs assessment
Market segments
10. A commission over and above the normal base commission percentage.
Override
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
History
Category cable
11. Individuals who will participate in the pre-event meetings. Generally includes the planner - key members of planner's staff - CSM - Catering Managers - A/V representatives - room set-up representatives - etc.
lanning committee
Direct billing
Secure digital certificate
Pad-wrapped
12. Accredited designation offered by the National Speakers Association. This designation is earned for extensive - documented speaking experience and client satisfaction.
Meet and greet
Wireless microphone
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Leko
13. Complimentary tickets awarded by the official airline after the event according to the number of attendees who used the airline.
Application service provider (ASP)
Packing list
Dimensional weight
Productivity ticket
14. A popular digital format for meeetings with a good quality image - an extended recording time up to 184 minutes - with a tape stock that is less expensive than BetaSP.
T-shape set-up
DVCam
Audience polling
Room block
15. 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
Catering manager
Podcast
Packing list
Material handling
16. 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
Opt-in
Arrival pattern
Rooming list
Professional
17. Function room set-up that saves room turnover time - limits the number of event rooms required - and avoids additional charges for changing room set-ups.
Cut-off date
Quick set
CODEC
CYC
18. AKA Brainstorming. Group decision-making software and services use technology on-site to maximize the group decision and brainstorming process. Often the set-up involves a network of computers that event participants use to respond to questions - pll
High season
Certificate of insurance
Hardwall
Group ware
19. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Digital video
Continental breakfast
Accessibility
20. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
Suitcasing
Indirect costs
Focus group
Full American Plan
21. In-person on-site review and evaluation of a venue or location for an event.
ite inspection
Interview
Multi-point bridge
Air waybill
22. Anticipated dates and times of arrival of group members.
Arrival pattern
Downlink
Specialty contractor
Stacked speaker system
23. Record of an event over time.
Scoop
Pay-per-view
Minimum labor call
History
24. An insurance policy that provides protection against claims involving bodily injury and property damage to third parties.
Sub-block
Logistics
General liability insurance
Casual attire
25. When a company tries to sell its product or service on the show floor without the permission or consent of the event's management.
Suitcasing
Dram shop laws
Banquet event order (BEO)
Hundredweight (CWT)
26. Names and contact information of potential customers. Attendee lists are often provided as sales leads to exhibitors as an incentive to participate in an exhibition.
Equalizer
Sales lead
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Hospitality suite
27. A labor organization - typically made up of workers from the same trade formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests such as dealing collectively with their employer on issues of wages - hours - working conditions and other matters pert
Billing instructions
Document sharing
Union
Theater set-up
28. A permanently installed series of cable comprised of copper wire cable and/or fiber optic cable - utilized as the main thoroughfare in a building to transmit voice and data signals in or out of the facility.
Backbone
Style
Teleconferencing
Network
29. A wired or wireless microphone that hooks around the neck or is clipped to clothing. Sometimes called a NECKLACE - LAPEL - or PENDANT MICROPHONE.
Pre-set
Lavaliere microphone
Riser
Lecture
30. One of the advantages of a web-based event planning software solution or ASP is that clients already have the necessary tools available: a computer and a web browser. This familiar interface is cross-platforming - meaning that PCs - MACs - and large
Mediation
Room block
French cart service
Interface
31. Americans with Disabilities Act. U.S. legislation passed in 1992 requiring public buildings (offices - hotels - restaurants - etc.) to make adjustments meeting minimum standards to make their facilities accessible to individuals with physical disabil
Exhibition service contractor
Cash flow
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
32. An event that draws a national and international audience. Typically 15% or more of attendees reside outside of the host country.
International event
ducational programming committee
2-D bar code
Intelligent lighting
33. The station used to transmit signals from Earth to a satellite (videoconferencing).
Platform
Modified American Plan MAP
Logistics
Uplink
34. Time worked by an employee outside of - or in addition to - regular working time or beyond the standard forty-hour workweek.
Overtime
Low season
Backbone
Cut-off date
35. 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
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Convention center
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
Line array
36. Absence of obstacles preventing handicapped persons from moving freely to all public areas within a building.
Customs
Russian banquet service
Multi-management firm
Barrier-free
37. Pre-program information distributed to tour guides - field representatives - venues or vendors - regarding the details of their program assignment for a given event or program.
Modified American Plan
Cash flow
Schedule of services
Foreign exchange currency risk
38. AKA Group Travel Agency. Company specializing in planning and handling group travel.
Schoolroom set-up
Special event professional
American service
Travel agency
39. Formalized statement of outcomes to be anticipated as a result of the educational process.
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Objective
Fiber-optic cable
Foreign exchange currency risk
40. Automated External Defibrillator. Device installed in many large public areas (e.g. airports - hotels - convention centers). Can be used by any individual to administer life-saving care to person experiencing a heart attack.
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Event specifications guide (ESG)
NCR form
Request for proposal (RFP)
41. RFP. A document that stipulates what services the organization wants from an outside contractor and requests a bid to perform such services. Same As BID MANUAL/SPECIFICATIONS.
Covers
Caterer
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
Request for proposal (RFP)
42. Raised horizontal surface - stage - or flooring.
Customs broker
Platform
Multi-point bridge
Opt-in
43. A speaker system that is typically used in ballrooms - exhibit hall venues - etc - and are most appropriate for voice reproduction.
Floor plan
Distributed speaker system
Modified American Plan MAP
Program design
44. In which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing.
Smart form
Limited power of attorney
Schoolroom set-up
Van line
45. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is neither high nor low.
Shoulder season
Facilitator
Manifest
In-house contractor
46. Large theatrical floodlight usually used for work lights or occasionally in place of strip lights to light a cyclorama or sky drop.
Scoop
Customs broker
Pre-set
Post-con
47. Organizations offering this type of continuing education credits are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
Cash accounting
Fishbowl
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
48. A plastic credit card with an embedded integrated circuit chip that can store up to 16 -000 bits of data for lead retrieval and other functions.
Incremental budgeting
Exhibitor prospectus
Freight forwarder
Smart card
49. Efforts of a dissident group to obstruct the conduct of an event.
Request for proposal (RFP)
Confrontation
Override
On consumption
50. 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.
Whiteboarding
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
On-demand
Risk management