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Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Best practices for corporate shareholder meetings are constantly evolving to better ensure accuracy, fairness and order. Leverage the 4 latest trends below to maximize success at your company’s next shareholder meeting.

1. Green shareholder meetings. Corporations are looking to further reduce their carbon footprint and ensure environmental responsibility by taking efforts to green their meetings. Miller Tanner Associates, for example, opted to reduce waste and mitigate negative environmental impact for a recent meeting for the pharmaceutical industry. But it needed to do so in a way that would not compromise the training, interactive format and informational elements of the meeting.


Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

IML Connector Audience Response System

Attendees at this week’s International Confex Exhibition in London got a firsthand, exclusive view of the brand-new IML Connector audience interaction and voting tool.

Not there? Not to worry.

We’ve got our own exclusive look at the new audience response system.

The audience response device – in direct response to event producer demand – reduces the amount of hardware necessary for attendees to fully participate in events. The single handheld device combines:

  • Multiple audio channels and portable PA system
  • Instant voting with configurable menus and choices


Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Could new requirements from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) soon change the way your business conducts shareholder meetings?

The SEC has proposed several new measures to grant even more voting power to shareholders of US companies, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch.

Here’s how suggested measures could affect shareholder voting for US corporations moving forward:

Before: In general, shareholders have had a difficult time influencing the way companies operate, especially when it comes to executive pay.

After: A new SEC proposal would give shareholders a non-binding vote on executive pay.


Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

For events from board meetings to training conferences, the emergence of public speaking 2.0 is here. A growing number of speakers are leveraging the latest technologies to make their presentations interactive and gain useful audience feedback.

Whether through social networking websites or audience response systems, meeting organizers and speakers can ensure audience members stay engaged and excited throughout presentations.

Below are a few tips on how to use technology to make presentations more interactive:


Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Large-scale events – from silent auctions to shareholder meetings – require careful planning, monetary resources and manpower. And a few tried-and-true tips for event planning don’t hurt, either.

In a recent podcast and whitepaper from promotional product retailer 4imprint, Paulette Wolf and Donielle Levine, authors of the book “Event Planning Made Easy,” offer what they consider the first and most important tip for successful event planning:

Establish the 5 “W’s” and 1 “How.”

One by one, those 6 elements include:

1. Who are the guests or attendees?

2. What is the event being planned?


Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Board Meeting Voting SystemAny school board knows that when the decision is made to close a school, it often involves a heated debate and a potentially explosive board meeting. That’s exactly what happened in early August at an East Aurora School Board meeting in suburban Chicago. The emotion-filled meeting demonstrated the need for an accurate voting system and method to structure public debate.

The Beacon News reported that after weeks of examining the success of the 1-year-old Magnet Academy, the school board had planned to put the school’s future to a vote during the Aug. 3 meeting. But that vote never occurred. Instead, dozens of passionate parents, school administrators and teachers filled the meeting room and flooded out into the hallway to fight to keep the school for gifted students alive.


Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Ray Hansen

Ray Hansen

Ray Hansen, Director for audience response systems provider IML, was recently named the 2008-2009 Supplier Volunteer of the Year by the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) WestField Chapter. The award does not simply signify the financial contribution of IML to MPI by its membership. Rather, the award celebrates its dedication to actively improving the meetings and events industry.

IML takes an active role in MPI to acquire valuable knowledge about the profession and where it’s headed. That knowledge is necessary in order to create the most effective audience response systems to help the meetings and events profession succeed.


Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
IML Table

Photo Credit: Tiffany Oelfke

When you host a corporate meeting, fundraiser or silent auction, you risk rolling out a red carpet no different from any other in the eyes of your audience.  If you are renting out a conference center, in fact, you may be rolling out the exact same red carpet.

In helping thousands of organizations and non-profits host successful red-carpet events, audience response systems company IML has learned that audience interaction is key to a memorable gala or meeting.

Using our systems, organizations and non-profits have hosted red carpet events that have resonated so strongly, the shade of the red carpet transformed into a deeper shade of purple.