CEO Magazine votes Quest Business & Conference Center as the Best of Business for the Best Conference Center/Meeting Facility. Winners will be announced in the November issue of Columbus CEO Magazine, and will be invited to attend a celebration banquet. This is the second annual Best of Business competition, in which the magazine requests votes from their readers regarding the best Columbus business in all categories, ranging from law firms to restaurants. Quest would like to congratulate our staff on a job well done, and thank our clients for voting and all of the support that you have shown our company throughout the years.

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This highly anticipated Google feature titled Google Wave was created by the same team that developed the break through Google Maps. While brainstorming ideas prior to the creation of Wave, Google designers aimed to "recreate" email as if Google invented it today. Google describes Wave as "an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more." What is so amazing about this service is that with all of its capabilities, Wave is operated entirely through an HTML browser such as Firefox and Safari.

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Join the Green Meetings Industry Council (GMIC): The GMI is a global community dedicated to changing the standards and practices of the events industry to become more environmentally friendly. Log on to their website to join the organization, or visit to find out useful information for your next event.

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Good negotiators always ask for everything that they want, regardless of wither they believe that they are going to get it. Meetingsnet.com advises "Not only do good negotiators ask for everything you want, they also make sure they don't end up with something they don't want." Be upfront with what you do and do not want early in the negotiation process, so everything is out in the open and both parties know that there are no hidden agendas.

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With the integration of web 2.0, the meeting industry has began to make various changes to incorporate the variety of communication outlets that have quickly became a valuable resource for meeting industry professionals. The most notable change since the rise of web 2.0 is a massive jump into Social Media, with the usage of Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter now in the millions each day. Corbin Ball from Corbin Ball Associates discusses how web 2.0 is primarily based around "you", in the sense that the idea behind social media is to rely solely on user generated content. This idea fits well in the meetings industry because social media outlets are an easy and cost effective way to share ideas and receive feed back quickly.

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