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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. The standard seating supplied by most facilities. This kind of seating in wide rooms has the disadvantage of restricting the view of attendees sitting at the row ends. Best for presentations in which audience interaction is not required.
Commerical invoice
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
Straight-row seating
Dram shop laws
2. 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
Cancellation clause
Podcast
Gobo
Sponsorship
3. A facility that provides a dedicated environment for events - especially small events. May be certified by the International Association of Conference Centers.
Destination management company (DMC)
Sales lead
Arrival pattern
Conference center
4. Also called overhead or administrative costs - these are expenses not directly related to the event. They can include salaries - rent - and building and equipment maintenance.
Pipe & drape
Indirect costs
Scoop
Promotion
5. A process of identifying human wants and needs - and developing a plan to meet those wants and needs. Refers to everything involved with convincing an attendee to come to the event. Also refers to providing information to support the exhibit sales fu
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Pick-up
Value proposition
Marketing
6. Manual or kit - usually developed by the service contractor for an event - containing general event information - labor/service order forms - rules and regulations and other information pertinent to an exhibitor's participation in an exhibition.
Limited power of attorney
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Exhibitor service manual
Marketing
7. 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.
Kiosk
Network
Zero-based budgeting
Set top box solutions (STBS)
8. An ongoing process in which an individual actively seeks to understand and contribute to change.
Jurisdiction
Convention services manager (CSM)
Lifelong learning
Bid
9. 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
Modified American Plan
Booth
DLP projector
Press kit
10. Certified Professional Catering Executive. A certification program offered by the National Association of Catering Executives (NACE).
Suitcasing
Citywide event
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
Cost center
11. Recognizing the possibility of injury - damage or loss - and having a means to prevent it or provide insurance.
Riser
Sub-block
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Risk management
12. 1) Ability of a projection system to distinguish and reproduce fine detail. 2) Motion put forward for a joint decision; usually has the force of a legislative decision.
Press release
Resolution
Offer
Platform
13. A marketing plan should answer the question - What is the benefit to attending the event?
Mailing list
Value proposition
Rebates
Marketing plan
14. An organization who locates and books speakers according to my specifications and budget.
Authorized signatory
Bandwidth
Incremental budgeting
Speakers bureau
15. Event held to communicate information to media representatives.
Press conference
Accrual accounting
Download
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
16. A type of education where students work on their own at home or from an office - and communicate with faculty and other students via email - electronic forums - chat - webconferencing and other forms of online communication. Includes correspondence c
Front projection
Podcast
Stacked speaker system
Distance learning
17. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers. A membership organization that represents individuals who hold the copyrights to music written in the United States and grants licensing agreements for the performance of that music.
Union
Sampling
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
18. A document - required by certain countries for tariff purposes - certifying as to the country of origin of specified goods.
Certificate of origin
Official carrier
Certificate of insurance
Seminar
19. The transfer of monies into and out of an enterprise.
Non-performance
ISDN
Advance deposit
Cash flow
20. 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
Relational databases
Post-con
Common carrier
Material handling (formerly drayage)
21. When a company contracts space at a hotel or other adjacent venue to display their products and meet with exhibition attendees without paying show management for booth space or sponsorship fees.
Outboarding
Combination bar
History
Pre-event meeting
22. Labor performed and paid at standard rate for work during normal business hours as established by unions.
Accrual accounting
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
Straight time
Fixed costs
23. Familiarization Trip. Offered to potential buyers of a venue - a program designed to acquaint participants with specific destinations or services and to stimulate the booking of an event. Often offered in groups - but sometimes on an individual basis
Dais
Familiarization (fam) trip
Backwall
Shuttle service
24. 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
Line level
Platform
Customs broker
Multi-management firm
25. Official authorization or approval; to provide with credentials; to send (an envoy) with letters of authorization; to recognize or vouch for as conforming with a standard; to recognize a college as maintaining academic standards; to consider or recog
Gratuity
Override
Accreditation
Hospitality suite
26. Amount of money paid to secure a room - facility or service in advance.
Russian restaurant service
Release date
Carnet
Advance deposit
27. Type of meeting which brings together three or more people in two or more locations through telecommunications.
Slide
Evaluation
Telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD)
Teleconferencing
28. The organization who administers Continuing Legal Education and Mandatory Continuing Legal Education courses (CLE and MCLE).
American Bar Association (ABA)
American Plan (Full American Plan)
High season
Flying
29. A company that offers complete turnkey organization support for an event - including administrative and event management services.
Multi-management firm
Casual attire
Fresnel
Colloquium
30. An organization that provides event management and exhibitors with a wide range of services - sometimes including - but not limited to - Installation & Dismantle - creating and hanging signage and banners - laying carpet - drayage - and providing boo
Line array
General service contractor GSC
Covers
Full American Plan
31. A black light used to make phosphorescent and fluorescent paints glow in the dark.
Floor plan
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Speakers bureau
Ultraviolet lighting
32. A list of special spellings - terms and style points to be used consistently in publications related to an event.
Exclusive
Style sheet
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Marketing
33. 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
Liability
Act of God
Category cable
Stacked speaker system
34. 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.
Interface
Webcast
Digital marketing
Open bar (host bar)
35. Generally refers to air-freight and van line shipments. Invoices are calculated with two weights - actual and dimensional. The dimensional weight is based upon the volume of the shipment. The billing weight is the larger of the two.
Net worth
Videoconferencing
Dimensional weight
Contract
36. Long range plan of action for a company or organization.
Lavaliere microphone
Schoolroom set-up
Strategic plan
Liquidated damage clause
37. Process of translating one language into another while the speaker is speaking.
Style sheet
Act of God
Inducements
Simultaneous translation
38. Expenses that vary based upon various factors - such as the number of attendees .
Exclusive
LCD projector
Variable costs
Business exchange
39. 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
Convention center
Consular invoice
Clause
Material handling (formerly drayage)
40. Risk that an organization takes when dealing with foreign currency due to exchange rates fluctuating over time.
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
NCR form
Foreign exchange currency risk
Caterer
41. Booth/stand space assigned to exhibiting companies or meeting rooms assigned to event groups.
Certificate of insurance
Space assignment
Schoolroom set-up
Focus group
42. Weblogs or online journals. An application that may change the face of event marketing.
Shoulder season
Blog
Breakout session
Travel agency
43. 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.
Backwall
Pallet
Lead retrieval
Customs broker
44. Raising and supporting sound - lighting or other equipment or décor from the ceiling.
Override
Flying
V-shape set-up
Integrated marketing
45. A seating arrangement with a row of seats on low risers around a BOARDROOM SET-UP. A very space-intensive set-up.
Two-tiered set-up
Protocol
Space assignment
Pre-con
46. AKA Post Conference.Any event which is arranged for the period immediately following the conference proper.
Post-con
Caterer
Pre-set
Net worth
47. 1) Schematic drawing of an exhibit hall including dimensions - design - shape - entrances - aisles - numbered exhibit booth/stands - lounges - concession areas - restrooms - electrical/plumbing accessibility - etc. 2) Scale plan of the floor area of
Direct billing
Blog
Credit card badge
Floor plan
48. The station which receives data transmissions from a communications satellite.
Covers
Downlink
Destination management company (DMC)
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
49. 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
DVCam
PCMA Space Verification Program
Outboarding
50. 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
Document sharing
Post event report
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Dram shop laws