CMSA record breakers.Commercial Mortgage Securities Association closed its most successful annual convention last week, marking a tipping point The point in time in which a technology, procedure, service or philosophy has reached critical mass and becomes mainstream. See network effect. See also tip and ring. for the organization as it adopted its new Strategic Plan to serve its members by covering all commercial real estate capital market finance products. "To reflect our new mission, we enhanced our educational offerings and expanded the CDO (Collaborative Data Objects) A programming interface from Microsoft for accessing MAPI-based e-mail, calendaring and scheduling servers. Originally called "OLE Messaging" and "Active Messaging," CDO wraps the Enhanced MAPI library into a COM object that provides the Conference, now in its second year. This helped push our Twelfth Annual Convention to record attendance in excess of 1,100," said newly installed CMSA CMSA abbr. Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area President Kent Born. The convention's theme, Approaching the Tipping Point, chosen to reflect the association's and the industry's dynamic growth, was discussed by guest speaker Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell (born September 1, 1963) is a United Kingdom-born, Canadian-raised journalist now based in New York City who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. , author of The Tipping Point and Blink. The Convention also featured in-depth educational sessions focused on commercial debt obligations (CDOs), as well as interest group discussions that focused on the cutting-edge issues facing the industry today. |
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