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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. 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.
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
Outboarding
Butler service
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
2. A supplier of a specific event service - such as photography - rental of furniture or audiovisual equipment - or floral decoration.
Outsourcing
Specialty contractor
VHS Video Home System
American Bar Association (ABA)
3. 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.
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Lectern microphone
Booth
4. 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
Buzz session
Event specifications guide (ESG)
On consumption
DVCam
5. 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
Waiver of subrogation
Change order
Familiarization (fam) trip
Truckload
6. Comp. Service - space or item provided at no charge.
Exhibitor prospectus
Broadband
Lectern
Complimentary
7. Provides the event's basic specifications and captures all the information gathered. A detailed event specifications package should include things like the goals and objectives of the event - attendee profile - prefered and optional dates - the numbe
Needs assessment
Overhead
Multi-management firm
Event profile
8. Structured educational and training experiences for personal or professional development.
Casual attire
Hand carry
Continuing education
Interface
9. 1) Critiquing and rating the overall success of an event. 2) Developing an event profile from accurate event statistics.
Certificate of insurance
Evaluation
lanning committee
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
10. 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
PCMA Space Verification Program
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Poster session
Post-event report PER
11. 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
In-house contractor
Pre-set
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Network
12. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
Telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD)
Certification
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
Feedback
13. Other names for event order (EO) - function sheet - or Banquet Event Order (BEO)
Function set-up order
Shopping cart
Workshop
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
14. 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
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Travel agency
Billing instructions
Marketing collateral
15. A company that presents special effects and theatrical acts. This type of company may contract to put on an entire event or only parts of one. They sometimes hire speakers as part of their contract.
American Bar Association (ABA)
ISDN
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Production company
16. Efforts of a dissident group to obstruct the conduct of an event.
lanning committee
Confrontation
Zero-based budgeting
Marshalling yard
17. 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.
Accrual accounting
ducational programming committee
Colloquium
Yield management
18. A feature of many videoconferencing systems that allows two or more people to use the same software program - even if all do not have it on their computer or conferencing system.
Trade show facilitation website
Exhibition service contractor
Application sharing
Air waybill
19. 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.
Fixed costs
Contract
Scoop
Press conference
20. 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
Specialty contractor
Credit card badge
One-stop shop
21. The organization who administers Continuing Legal Education and Mandatory Continuing Legal Education courses (CLE and MCLE).
Site inspection
Packing list
Etiquette
American Bar Association (ABA)
22. Raising and supporting sound - lighting or other equipment or décor from the ceiling.
lanning committee
Flying
Cut-off date
Network
23. Web based conferencing - a vital component of the modern event professional's toolbox.
Survey
E-conferencing
Category cable
Theater set-up
24. Computer Assisted Drawing/Computer Assisted Manufacturing. Some facilities have CAD systems to provide room setup diagrams.
Barrier-free
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
Packing list
Debate
25. Series of tables set up in the shape of the block T with chairs set all around except at the head table.
Press kit
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Focus group
T-shape set-up
26. 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
B2B
Audience polling
Group ware
Theater set-up
27. Company that fabricates displays.
Exhibit house
Customs broker
Covers
Overtime
28. The right granted by one party to let a another party use live or recorded music through special agreements and fee structures.
Music licensing
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Act of God
Pay-per-view
29. Web sites that give visitors a reason to return to the site and be exposed to new offers.
Music licensing
Chat room
Event profile
Whiteboarding
30. 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
Marketing
Rigging
Secure digital certificate
Exhibitor prospectus
31. International Association for Continuing Education and Training.
Lot labeling
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Flying
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
32. Building an event budet by analyzing both the projected and actual figures from the previous year's budget.
Incremental budgeting
Program design
Whiteboarding
Export declaration
33. A government document which permits the "licensee" to engage in the export of designated goods to certain destinations.
Cluster
Export license
Unopposed exhibit hours
Citywide event
34. 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.
Green event
PCMA Space Verification Program
Kiosk
Barrier-free
35. Complimentary tickets awarded by the official airline after the event according to the number of attendees who used the airline.
Freight forwarder
Productivity ticket
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Russian restaurant service
36. An ongoing effort by an organization to develop relationships with key media representatives before - during - and after an event.
Media relations
Cafeteria service
Online registration
Cash bar
37. Accredited designation offered by the National Speakers Association. This designation is earned for extensive - documented speaking experience and client satisfaction.
Complimentary
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Pallet
38. A company that offers complete turnkey organization support for an event - including administrative and event management services.
Debate
Multi-management firm
Liquidated damage clause
Stakeholder
39. A tax that is added to a product at each step of the manufacturing and marketing process reflecting value which has been added to the product by processing.
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Digital marketing
Debate
Value-added tax (VAT)
40. The rooms that are contracted for by an event organizer with a hotel(s) or housing facility(s) for a particular event.
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Force majeure
Service charge
Interface
41. The presenter is questioned by a moderator on behalf of the audience.
Interview
CYC
Export declaration
Balance sheet
42. Number of facility guest rooms actually used out of a room block.
Floor plan
Pick-up
Hospitality suite
V-shape set-up
43. 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
Overhead
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
Computer data projection
Stand
44. Video tape recorder and player utilizing ½-inch (1.27 centimeter) tape. Not compatible with beta format.
Peripheral block
Rooming list
VHS Video Home System
Dais
45. Airline company designated airline of choice for an event in exchange for special rates or services.
Official carrier
Net worth
Promotion
Good faith
46. 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.
Professional
Site inspection
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Schedule of services
47. Magnetic Stripe. A lead retrieval system using a magnetic strip on either the back of a paper badge (similar to some airline tickets) or on plastic badges similar to credit cards.
Mag-stripe
Zone fare
Whiteboarding
Transfer
48. 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.
Room-based videoconferencing
Lot labeling
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Hold harmless
49. 1) Certified Meeting Professional. 2) Complete Meeting Package at conference centers; includes lodging - all food and beverage - support services - including audio visual equipment - room rental - etc.
Seminar
Packing list
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
Break-even point
50. Designated date when the facility will release a block of sleeping rooms to the general public. The date is typically three to four weeks before the event.
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
Etiquette
Cut-off date
One-stop shop