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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Time worked by an employee outside of - or in addition to - regular working time or beyond the standard forty-hour workweek.
Budget
CYC
PCMA Space Verification Program
Overtime
2. A lead retrieval method using embossed plastic cards similar to credit cards.
Audiovisual A/V
Cancellation clause
Credit card badge
Dais
3. 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 - whi
Overtime
Meet and greet
Post-event meeting
Post-event report PER
4. Accredited designation offered by the National Speakers Association. This designation is earned for extensive - documented speaking experience and client satisfaction.
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Teleconferencing
Schoolroom set-up
Message board
5. Categorization of people - organizations or businesses by professional discipline or primary areas of interest for the purposes of sales analysis or assignment.
Full American Plan
Market segments
Zero-based budgeting
Objective
6. Other names for event order (EO) - function sheet - or Banquet Event Order (BEO)
Scoop
American Bar Association (ABA)
Function set-up order
Real-time
7. The transfer of monies into and out of an enterprise.
E-conferencing
Good faith
Cash flow
Shuttle service
8. Building an event budet by analyzing both the projected and actual figures from the previous year's budget.
Zone fare
Complimentary room
Copy editor
Incremental budgeting
9. The organization who provides accrediation for Continuing Medical Education (CME).
Music licensing
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Material handling
American Plan (Full American Plan)
10. 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
Customs broker
Advance registration
Hold harmless
Priority point system
11. Transportation company which handles crated materials; an agency or business that is available to the public for transportation of persons - goods - or messages; usually referring to freight transportation on regularly scheduled trucks or airplanes.
Shuttle service
Union
Common carrier
Convention services manager (CSM)
12. Proof of Registration - i.e. - a reservation number that will be accepted by the hotel holding the room.
Copy editor
Accreditation
Income statement
Confirmation number
13. Weblogs or online journals. An application that may change the face of event marketing.
Market segments
Blog
Cafeteria service
DVCam
14. 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.
Certificate of insurance
Online registration
Fiber-optic cable
ducational programming committee
15. 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
Space assignment
DLP projector
Post-event meeting
International event
16. Certification of measurements of meeting space through the Function Space Verification Program offered by the Professional Convention Management Association or through graphics layout software companies - e.g. MeetingMatrix.
Wireless microphone
PCMA Space Verification Program
Provision
Citywide event
17. Supplier of booth/stand equipment - rental furnishings - floor coverings - labor - drayage and signs for exhibitions and trade shows. See GENERAL SERVICE CONTRACTOR.
Backwall
Foreign exchange currency risk
Exhibition service contractor
Audience polling
18. A detailed list of the individual line items that make up the revenue and expense categories in a budget. A numbering system used to identify every line item in a budget - so income and expenses are posted to the correct accounts.
APEX
T-3 line
Indirect costs
Chart of accounts
19. 1) Meeting of several persons for intensive discussion. The workshop concept has been developed to compensate for diverging views in a particular discipline or on a particular subject. 2) Informal and public session of free discussion organized to ta
Workshop
Schedule of services
Budget
Backwall
20. 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.
Application sharing
Sub-block
Lectern
DVCam
21. Service for meeting and greeting a person upon arrival in a city - usually at the airport - pier or rail station and assisting him or her with entrance formalities - collecting baggage and obtaining transportation.
Smart form
Meet and greet
Logistics
Music licensing
22. 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.
One-stop shop
DVCam
Accommodation
Site inspection
23. An extraordinary natural event such as extreme weather - flood - hurricanes - tornadoes - earthquake or similar natural disaster that cannot be reasonably foreseen or prevented over which a contracting party has no reasonable control - making perform
Act of God
Resolution
Certificate of insurance
Continental breakfast
24. Series of tables set up in the shape of the block T with chairs set all around except at the head table.
T-shape set-up
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Air waybill
Exhibition service contractor
25. Placing plated foods on banquet tables prior to seating guests.
Pre-set
Butler service
Incentive travel company
Riser
26. A food service operation in which customers carry their own trays and select food from a display counter or counters. It is similar to a buffet - but food is served by attendants.
Cafeteria service
Fixed costs
Backwall
Bandwidth
27. A supplier of a specific event service - such as photography - rental of furniture or audiovisual equipment - or floral decoration.
Authorized signatory
Theater set-up
Specialty contractor
Contract
28. Average (power) level at which a signal is output from devices like mixers - cassette decks and other devices which process sound. Technically - this corresponds to -30 dBM (one microwatt) to +30 dBM (one watt).
Pre-event meeting
Variable costs
Lavaliere microphone
Line level
29. 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
LED Light Emitting Diode
Cash accounting
Relational databases
Protocol
30. Absence of obstacles preventing handicapped persons from moving freely to all public areas within a building.
Colloquium
Guest program
Audience polling
Barrier-free
31. A collection of publicity items that includes: 1) pertinent data on the meeting - such as agenda - historical data - guest speakers - special events - etc. The property - such as photos - descriptions of public space areas - local entertainment - etc
Press kit
Exhibit house
Speakers bureau
Theater set-up
32. An individual or company providing installation & dismantle and booth/stand and hall dressing services for a trade show and/or its exhibitors. Decorator services may be provided by carpenters - sign painters or others depending upon union jurisdictio
Pick-up
Gobo
Lifelong learning
Decorator
33. Comp. Service - space or item provided at no charge.
Complimentary
lanning committee
Commission
Material handling
34. Direct mail promotional materials sent to current and prospective exhibitors to encourage participation and promote the benefits of exhibiting in a specific show. Contains information about technical points - cost of exhibition space - floor plan of
Exhibitor prospectus
Unopposed exhibit hours
Continuing education
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
35. Wooden platform used to carry goods. See SKID.
Pallet
Cut-off date
Fishbowl
Walk
36. 1) Broadly - one who acts or has the power to act: more usually - one that acts as the representative of another. Most frequently in travel - a specific kind of agent such as a retail travel agent. 2) Person that obtains engagements for entertainers
Fishbowl
Export license
Style sheet
Booking agent
37. Registration made via the Web.
Facilitator
Online registration
Travel agency
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
38. Association of Destination Management Executives. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Media relations
Webcast
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
39. 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.
Digital video
Special event professional
Carnet
Peripheral block
40. AKA Post Conference.Any event which is arranged for the period immediately following the conference proper.
Convention services manager (CSM)
Post-con
Lead retrieval
Lecture
41. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
APEX RFP
Indirect costs
Colloquium
Certification
42. Affordable videoconferencing equipment that is available and allows participants to use their computers indead of proprietary hardware for virtual meetings. They provide real-time interaction using a personal computer.
Post event report
Colloquium
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Platform
43. 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
Facilitator
Booking agent
Application sharing
Group ware
44. Final official listing of all passengers and/or cargo aboard a transportation vehicle or vessel.
Service charge
APEX
Manifest
Shopping cart
45. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
Freight forwarder
Full American Plan
Accrual accounting
T-1 line
46. Dispute resolution process in which the parties use a third party to assist them in reaching a compromise. The mediator may work with both sides together - or may act as "go between" in an attempt to move the sides toward agreement. The mediator may
Russian restaurant service
Virtual conferencing
Mediation
Conference reminder
47. Raised platform usually above the floor of a hall or large room.
Dais
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Russian banquet service
Multidisciplinary
48. 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
Acceptance
In-house contractor
Peripheral block
Balance sheet
49. A hollow square whose corners are replaced by serpentine or half-moon tables.
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
Hand carry
B2B
Rounded hollow square
50. 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
Override
Peripheral block
Line level