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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Amount of money paid to secure a room - facility or service in advance.
Advance deposit
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Floor plan
Air waybill
2. Lifts - trusses - pipe or other freestanding devices used to raise sound - lighting or other equipment above the heads of attendees and to support it from the floor.
Audience reaction team
Ground support
Network
Style sheet
3. 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
Message board
lanning committee
National Speakers Association (NSA)
4. 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.
Island booth
Consideration
ducational programming committee
U-shape set-up
5. Any meeting where people at two or more distant locations are linked using video - audio and data for two-way communication via satellite communications or the Internet. Each party sees and hears the other through a TV screen or computer monitor and
Housing company
Service charge
Virtual conferencing
Common carrier
6. Downloadable audio and video programs playable on MP3 players. This type of application may change the face of event marketing.
V-shape set-up
Lectern microphone
Zero-based budgeting
Podcast
7. Accounts receivable made available to individuals or firms with established credit.
Direct billing
Outboarding
Marketing plan
Hold harmless
8. An event that incoporates environmental considerations throughout all states of the planning process in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment.
Demonstration
Confrontation
Green event
Straight-row seating
9. 1) The jobs that may be performed by a specific labor union. 2) The locality where a contractual dispute is decided. 3) In law - the ability of a court to hear and decide a matter brought before it.
Press kit
Uplink
Rigging
Jurisdiction
10. Part of a cancellation clause that outlines the amount of damages to be paid to the noncelling party in the event of a cancellation.
Cash accounting
Liquidated damage clause
Union
Media relations
11. Date beyond which a facility is free to rent the unused sleeping rooms or function space to other groups.
Russian banquet service
Site inspection
Release date
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
12. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Packing list
Confirmation number
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Fresnel
13. A term used in food and beverage that refers to the purchasing option based on the amount utilized by the group. The organization pays for the food and beverage based on the actual food and beverage served.
Two-tiered set-up
Shuttle service
Flate rate
On consumption
14. A commission over and above the normal base commission percentage.
Online registration
Lavaliere microphone
Certificate of insurance
Override
15. MICROPHONE attached to a lectern. See LECTERN.
Backwall
Colloquium
Exhibit house
Lectern microphone
16. Designated day when the facility will release a block of sleeping rooms to the general public.
ducational programming committee
Broadband
Reservation review date
Release date
17. Building an event budet by analyzing both the projected and actual figures from the previous year's budget.
B2B
Acceptance
Exhibit house
Incremental budgeting
18. The transfer of monies into and out of an enterprise.
Cash flow
Indemnification clause
Audit
T-1 line
19. 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.
Provision
Smart card
Cluster
Tip
20. The tone of a document refers to the feeling or impression a document conveys. Formal writing style tends to convey an objective tone that is deliberate and factual. The toneo f an informal document typically is relaxed - informative - helpful - casu
Tone
Evaluation
Pro number
Peripheral block
21. Computer application that enables voting and then collects and displays the results - simplifying decision-making among event participants.
Walk
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Digital video
Audience polling
22. Unpublished rates offered from the areas of the U.S. and Canada to specified event destinations; they do not require Saturday night stay over.
Speakers bureau
Bandwidth
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Zone fare
23. Written document requiring individuals to disclose any conflicts of interest that may be created by their involvement with an organization.
Buzz session
Room block
Conflict of interest statement
Net worth
24. Linear exhibits are generally 10' deep. They are offered in 10' or 15' widths and can be combined to create an exhibit of almost any length.
Site inspection
Survey
Linear booth
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
25. Booth/stand space with aisles on all four sides.
Whiteboarding
Mediation
Island booth
Audit
26. Assortment of foods - offered on a table - self-served.
Certification
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
Buffet
Material handling
27. Type of meeting which brings together three or more people in two or more locations through telecommunications.
Request for proposal (RFP)
Audience reaction team
Function set-up order
Teleconferencing
28. Equipment - materials - and teaching aids used in sound and visual presentations - such as television monitors - video - sound equipment - etc.
Exhibitor service manual
French cart service
Exhibition manager
Audiovisual A/V
29. The presenter is questioned by a moderator on behalf of the audience.
Russian restaurant service
Special event professional
Interview
Contract
30. 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.
Digital video
Kiosk
Cash accounting
Clause
31. I&D. 1) The set-up and teardown of exhibits. 2) Firm that does I&D work.
Straight time
APEX
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Complimentary room
32. 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.
Outboarding
Breakout session
Contract
Focus group
33. Mandatory continuning education requirements for legal professionals are adminstered by the American Bar Association (ABA).
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Intelligent lighting
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Gratuity
34. 1) Publicizing an event. See PUBLICITY. 2) An advancement in rank or position.
Dram shop laws
Slide
Return on investment ROI
Promotion
35. 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.
Good faith
Cafeteria service
Document sharing
T-3 line
36. An independent business which handles export shipments for compensation. At the request of the shipper - the forwarder makes the actual arrangements and provides the necessary services for expediting the shipment to its overseas destination. The forw
Cut-off date
Conference center
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Freight forwarder
37. Sequential numbering as part of a total number of pieces indicated on each package - carton - or crate. For example - box number 2 of 12.
Business exchange
Yield management
Lot labeling
Hospitality suite
38. 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.
Convention center
Bandwidth
Cancellation clause
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
39. MAP. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Lecture
Modified American Plan
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Symposium
40. A hollow square whose corners are replaced by serpentine or half-moon tables.
Rounded hollow square
Butler service
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
LED Light Emitting Diode
41. 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
Schedule of services
Group specifications guide
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Event-contracted block (ECB)
42. A type of exhibit construction in which the walls are of solid material - rather than fabric.
Document sharing
Booking agent
Hardwall
Direct billing
43. International Association for Continuing Education and Training.
Exclusive
Risk management
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Computer data projection
44. 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.
Lot labeling
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Speakers bureau
Ground support
45. 1) The governmental authorities designated to collect duties levied by a country on imports and exports. The term also applies to the procedures involved in such collection. 2) Practices common to many of a particular group.
Debate
Customs
Scoop
Truckload
46. 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
Arbitration
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Concession
Booking agent
47. Accredited designation offered by the National Speakers Association. This designation is earned for extensive - documented speaking experience and client satisfaction.
Full American Plan
DSL
Destination management company (DMC)
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
48. Categorization of people - organizations or businesses by professional discipline or primary areas of interest for the purposes of sales analysis or assignment.
Market segments
Exclusive
Priority point system
Combination bar
49. The process whereby exhibitors receive a potential customer's contact information in a standardized manner. A system for capturing and following-up on leads generated at an exhibition.
Lead retrieval
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Hospitality suite
Webconferencing
50. 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.
Post-event meeting
Contract
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Lot labeling