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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Computer application that enables voting and then collects and displays the results - simplifying decision-making among event participants.
Release date
Audience polling
Booth
Limited power of attorney
2. The organization providing alcohol to guests.
Mic level
Social host
LED Light Emitting Diode
Conference reminder
3. 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
Service charge
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Walk
Set top box solutions (STBS)
4. A single source provider of goods or services.
On consumption
Material handling
One-stop shop
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
5. 1) The act of showing how to do something. 2) A group of individuals organized to picket or protest against a group using placards - literature - songs - shouts and - sometimes - marches or sit-ins.
Demonstration
Streaming
Press conference
LED Light Emitting Diode
6. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Pipe & drape
Billing instructions
Symposium
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
7. 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.
Production company
Van line
General liability insurance
Mitigation
8. 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
Acceptance
Production company
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Evaluation
9. A customs document permitting the holder to carry or send merchandise temporarily into certain foreign countries (for display - demonstration or similar purposes) without paying duties or posting bonds.
On consumption
Strategic plan
Business exchange
Carnet
10. Recognizing the possibility of injury - damage or loss - and having a means to prevent it or provide insurance.
Risk management
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Hospitality suite
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
11. Web browser-based videoconferencing.
Commission
Webconferencing
Lead retrieval
Special event professional
12. A service provider of videoconferencing which allows multiple sites to connect simultaneously. A bridge connects three or more tele- or videoconference sites for simultaneous communication.
Air waybill
Multi-point bridge
Continental breakfast
Exclusive
13. Marketing tools or programs used to influence buying patterns and build customer loyalty.
Value proposition
NCR form
Inducements
Service charge
14. Other names for event order (EO) - function sheet - or Banquet Event Order (BEO)
Outsourcing
Function set-up order
Hold harmless
Conference center
15. 1) Common term for sealed beam spot or flood lamp with self-contained lens surfaced glass. 2) In golf - one less than bogey.
Contract
Demonstration
PAR
Seminar
16. A type of indemnity clause that requires one party to fully protect the other from a claim asserted. This would include the payment of costs or attorney fees.
Hold harmless
PCMA Space Verification Program
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Modified American Plan MAP
17. Type of meeting which brings together three or more people in two or more locations through telecommunications.
Social host
Teleconferencing
International event
Booth
18. Contractor retained by a facility to be on-site and provide services as needed. In some cases - Planners are not required to use their services - but may be charged a surcharge or facility fee for bringing in an outside contractor for the same servic
Demonstration
Attrition clause
In-house contractor
Symposium
19. 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.
Room-based videoconferencing
Stacked speaker system
Skid
High season
20. The transfer of monies into and out of an enterprise.
Special event professional
Smart card
Cash flow
Lectern
21. An event that requires the use of a convention center or event complex - as well as multiple hotels in the host city.
Continental breakfast
Citywide event
Platform
Carnet
22. An additional clause in artist's contract stipulating special requirements such as travel - dressing rooms - technical equipment - etc.
Rider
Customs
Export license
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
23. Transfer a file from a host computer to your computer.
Download
CODEC
Green event
Pay-per-view
24. The type of platform that multi-purpose technology solutions designed to handle many event planning and management tasks are built on. They range in price from a few hundred dollars for a basic single-user program to hundreds of thousands of dollars
Offer
Relational databases
Rounded hollow square
Opt-out
25. Weblogs or online journals. An application that may change the face of event marketing.
Blog
Certificate of origin
Booking agent
Cancellation clause
26. A holding area where trucks or buses check in and wait for instructions before delivering or picking up freight or passengers.
Accrual accounting
Marshalling yard
Stand
Release date
27. 1) Airline lift into and out of a destination. 2) Capable of being used by people with physical challenges and disabilities. This is an important aspect of the United States' Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Complimentary room
History
Lot labeling
Accessibility
28. Contract wording that outlines potential damages or fees that a party may be required to pay in the event that it does not fulfill minimum commitments in the contract.
Override
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Transfer
Attrition clause
29. An itemized statement furnished to a purchaser by a seller and usually specifying the price of goods or services and the terms of sale.
Projector
Feedback
Commerical invoice
Accommodation
30. A type of audio system for meetings and concerts. The speakers sit on the floor and project from each side of the room. The sound may be louder in the front than the back.
Marketing plan
Stacked speaker system
Export declaration
Stakeholder
31. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
Production company
Full American Plan
Exhibition service contractor
Blog
32. A needs assessment is an essential setp in ensuring that educational offerings are relevant to attendees. The results of post-event evaluations can be as valuable as a needs assessment.
Dais
Needs assessment
Production company
DLP projector
33. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is lowest. Prices general decrease in low season.
Suitcasing
Low season
Flying
Promotion
34. MAP. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Real-time
Modified American Plan
Post-event report PER
Guest program
35. A type of barter. The exchange of goods and services instead of using money.
Marketing collateral
Trade-out
Full American Plan
Category cable
36. ASP. A company that manages and distributes software-based solutions to customers across a wide area network from a central data center. In essence - ASPs are a way for organizations to outsource some or almost all aspects of their information techno
Linear booth
Booth
Application service provider (ASP)
Incremental budgeting
37. Transmitting data at speeds of up to 44.184 Mbps - is faster than a T-1 line - allowing performance of more tasks simultaneously at a greater speed. See T-1 LINE.
T-3 line
Lot labeling
Post-event report PER
On consumption
38. Two or more computers or peripherals that are linked together for the purpose of sharing data.
Resolution
Packing list
Network
Certificate of origin
39. 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.
2-D bar code
Logistics
Quick set
Accessibility
40. Integrated services digital network. A single ISDN line carries data at 128 Kbps. Although video conferences are possible at slower speeds - ISDN is considered to be the minimum for acceptable-quality video transmission.
APEX
Business exchange
Freight forwarder
ISDN
41. Series of tables set up in the shape of the letter U with chairs set all around on one or both sides.
International event
U-shape set-up
Indemnification clause
Catering manager
42. Computer Assisted Drawing/Computer Assisted Manufacturing. Some facilities have CAD systems to provide room setup diagrams.
Feedback
Room-based videoconferencing
Rebates
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
43. Transportation for participants; usually by coach or van - provided on a continuous basis for a certain time period.
Shuttle service
Exhibition manager
Risk management
International event
44. The organization who administers Continuing Legal Education and Mandatory Continuing Legal Education courses (CLE and MCLE).
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
American Bar Association (ABA)
Customs broker
Event profile
45. Compression/Decompression or Coder/Decoder. Videoconferencing standard - included in hardware and/or software - used to compress or code video - audio - and data signals for transmission and decompress or decode the signal at the other end of the tra
Customs broker
Lectern
Release date
CODEC
46. Required for shipments valued at more than $2500; used by the U.S. government to monitor the dollar volume of export shipments.
Complimentary
Export declaration
Backwall
One-stop shop
47. 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
Exhibit house
Convention center
CODEC
One-stop shop
48. Sequential numbering as part of a total number of pieces indicated on each package - carton - or crate. For example - box number 2 of 12.
Provision
Smart form
Lot labeling
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
49. 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.
Pre-event meeting
Style sheet
Fresnel
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
50. A promise - proposal or other expression of willingness to make and carry out a contract under proposed terms with another party which has the ability to accept it upon receiving it. Space and rent proposal from a facility. It may be in the form of a
Offer
Rear projection
Arrival pattern
Cafeteria service