Related contentCo-locating meetings: Sometimes, the devil is in the details Carol McGury and Cynthia Cortis, two executives with Chicago-based association management firm SmithBucklin, have several years of in-the-trenches experience with co-locating meetings. McGury and Cortis help three of their IT association clients (different Oracle user groups) hold Collaborate, an annual technology convention that attracts more than 5,500 attendees. The three groups first came together in 2006 to hold the co-located meeting, and the learning curve was steep. It seemed too much like three separate meetings, with three different keynote speakers, three different portals and no… Read More