Associations

American Society of Association Executives (ASEA)

The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has had a significant presence on the web for years. This site is especially good for association statistics, public policy information, association news, and its searchable database of association suppliers.

Association Central

Association Central offers an extensive searchable directory of nearly every U.S. based and many international associations with address, phone numbers and other contact information included. Hopefully, in the next update, they will include web site links.

 

Convention Industry Council

This is the site for the Convention Industry Council… an umbrella organization made up of 32 International organizations involved in the meetings and convention industry. For a number of years committees of this group have been studying a wide variety of topics of interest to its membership. The results of studies are published under the link to APEX (Associated Practices Exchange). This is a very valuable site providing a very extensive glossary of terms as well as information on RFPs, Contracts, Negotiations, Registration, etc.

International Association of Conference Centers (IACC)

This cleanly designed directory and association site for the International Association of Conference Centers lists nearly 300 IACC approved conference centers around the world. It is chock-full of ideas and features including member directories, job boards, news features, surveys and more. The simplified navigation structure is especially good.

Meeting Professionals International (MPI)

This reorganized and much improved site has tons of information at Meeting Professionals International’s (MPI) site. It has an active public job board, many articles, statistics, and industry news.

National Speakers Association (NSA)

Need a speaker? The National Speakers Association (NSA) site has nearly 5,000 professional speakers in a searchable database, with tips on how to hire them.

Professional Conference Management Association (PCMA)

The Professional Conference Management Association’s (PCMA) cleanly designed site has lots of facts and figures regarding the meetings industry as well as many tools (checklists, sample contracts, a job bank and information on meetings technology). The Members Only section offers a substantial improvement in functionality and features. I hope they soon discontinue the annoying interstitial pop-up ad, however.