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ADVISORY/MPI's Debut Webcast on Forbes.com: ``Power of Meetings in Re-energizing Global Economy''.


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ADVISORY...for Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week.

Friday

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 (Feb. 8)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

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SUMMARY:


Meeting Professionals International (MPI MPI - Message Passing Interface ), the global authority and resource for the meeting industry, is making its debut on Forbes Forbes   , B(ertie) C(harles) 1880-1954.

American publisher and businessman who founded and edited (1916-1954) Forbes magazine. His son Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
.com with an authoritative webcast, "The Power of Meetings in Re-energizing the Global Economy."

Direct from the scene at MPI's recent Professional Education Conference-North America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. , the webcast offers commentary on meetings as an essential tool to the continuation of business and as a means to propel pro·pel  
tr.v. pro·pelled, pro·pel·ling, pro·pels
To cause to move forward or onward. See Synonyms at push.



[Middle English propellen, from Latin
 global commerce, as well as dynamic back-to-business strategies.

Despite economic challenges in the meeting industry, MPI's conference surpassed expectations by drawing approximately 1,400 industry professionals for three days of education designed to help organizations and individuals use meetings as a strategic business tool with a significant return on investment.

The webcast also highlights the conference's tradeshow, as well as its dynamic Opening Session, which featured Dewitt Jones Dewitt Jones is best known for his 20 year career as a freelance National Geographic photographer. Some of the most famous pictures in National Geographic's history were taken by Dewitt. , an internationally renowned photographer who challenged attendees to take creative risks and "dare to dance" to find success in today's volatile business environment.


    WHAT: "The Power of Meetings in Re-energizing the Global Economy"
          On-demand Webcast of elements from the 2002 Meeting
          Professionals International Professional Education
          Conference-North America Made possible by MPI's three-year
          digital partnership with Los Angeles-based WorldBridge
          Webcasting

    WHO:  Edwin L. Griffin, Jr., CAE, president and CEO, MPI
          Jerry Wayne, chairman of the board, MPI
          Dewitt Jones, Opening General Session keynote speaker
           and internationally renowned photographer
          Commentary from some of the most powerful meeting
           professionals around the world on how they are getting
           back to business despite Sept. 11 and the global economic
           slowdown

    WHEN: Friday, Feb. 8
          Noon EST

    TO REGISTER
    OR LOG ON:    www.mipweb.org or www.forbes.com
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