ISA Annual Convention 2011 Blog

ISA Annual Convention 2011 Blog

Montréal, Québec, Canada March 16-19, 2011
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Welcome to the official blog for the 2011 ISA Annual Convention in Montréal, we will use this space to keep you updated on all the latest convention news. Please use the Categories links menu to the left to browse this site. See you in Montréal!

Before You Leave

Here is a list of helpful tips to check off before you leave for Montreal:

• Travel: Ensure that your travel plans are in order including: passport, travel visa (if required), hotel guest room reservation (and confirmation number) and plane tickets (boarding passes)
• Weather: ISA panels/events are occurring in 3 different hotels (the Sheraton, Fairmont and Marriott), within a 4-5 minute walk of each other - we recommend you check the weather prior to departure
• ISA Registration: Review your Convention Registration to ensure that ISA has received your registration information and fee
• Coordinate with Panel: Be sure to coordinate with your panel chair about presentation length and ensure that the panel discussant(s) has received your paper (contact information for your panel(s) can be obtained from the detail tab to the left of your panels in the My Program area of MyISA)
• Upload Paper: To ISA Paper Archive no later than 1 week prior to your scheduled panel(s)
• Flashdrive: Be sure to bring your presentation (Windows compatible) on a flashdrive for your panel session (PDF or Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 ONLY, a Windows netbook is set up on-site in each panel room)
• Revisit Online Program: To check for any last minute panel/meeting changes to the program and take advantage of MyISA's option to search and build your own program schedules

Fairmont Announces Available Rooms

The Fairmont is accepting limited reservations past the cutoff date, but the group rate may or may not be available. Remaining rooms are available by call in only to General Reservations Central at 1-800-441-1414 and mentionning the group code ISA309.

If you are unable to receive the group rate at any of the main hotels, please select the Omni as it has availability until March 5 or until sold out.

Marriott & Hilton Rooms Available

The Marriott and the Hilton let us know that they now have a limited number of rooms available at the group rate. Please see the Convention Hotels website for room rates and links to online reservations.

Paper Archive Now Open

   

When you have time, please take a moment to upload your paper(s) to the convention paper archive, hosted by All Academic. We have posted abstracts for papers to be presented on paper panels and poster panels (participants on roundtable discussions do not need to upload papers).

To log-in to All Academic <http://www.allacademic.com/one/isa/isa11>, please use:

UserName:  your e-mail address (that you used on the paper proposal form)

Password:    ISA2011

Note that the this is your All Academic user info, this is not your MyISA user info.

You do not need to log-in to search and browse the archive, only to upload your paper.

Once logged in, click:

• Submit / Edit Submission
• Then, click on the right side: Edit
• Then, click: Upload Upload Paper
• Then, click: Browse (to locate your paper on your hard drive)
• Then, click: Upload and Continue

All Academic will then provide a confirmation screen. You may also edit the paper title and abstract as needed. The archive is open now and will remain open indefinitely. If you have questions about the archive, please use the comment link below.

Loews Now Accepting Reservations

We have been notified that our second overflow hotel, the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, is sold out. We will let you know if additional rooms become available at our group rate.

Our third overflow hotel, the Loews Hotel Vogue, is now accepting room reservations at the discounted room rate of $169 Single (Canadian $) and $199 Double (Canadian $). Online reservations may be made here.

Marriott Chateau Champlain Sold Out

We have been notified that our room block at Marriott Chateau Champlain is sold out. We will let you know if additional rooms become available at our group rate.

Our second overflow hotel, the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, is now accepting room reservations at the discounted room rate of $169 Single (Canadian $) and $195 Double (Canadian $). Online reservations may be made here.

Deadline: Withdrawal Deadline

Today is the last day to withdraw from the ISA 2011 Annual Convention without penalty and with a refund. No refunds will be processed after this date. Please see the Dates & Deadlines page of the convention website for additional deadlines.

Overflow Hotels Open

Our two co-headquarters hotels, the Sheraton and the Fairmont, are both sold out. We have opened online reservations at our first two overflow hotels today.

Reservations for the Montreal Marriott may be made here at the ISA group rate of $169 Single and $195 Double (Canadian dollars). 

Reservations for the Hilton at the ISA group rate of $169 Single and $189 Double (Canadian dollars) may be made here.

Follow ISA's Exhibitor's on Twitter

ISA was pleased to find that most of our exhibitors are using the Twitter service so we have put together a "Twitter List" of our exhibitors. This list will allow you to "follow" our exhibitors as they showcase their events, promotions and products on their Twitter feeds. In other words, our list follows them all, so you don't have to. You do not need to be a member of Twitter to view the list (but you do to subscribe to it).

For those of you on Twitter, following a list is as simple as following any other Twitter user. Simply navigate to the list page and click on “Follow”, underneath the name of the list. You can quickly view your subscribed lists, as well as your own, on the sidebar.

Our exhibitor  list can be found here. Thank you for supporting our exhibitors!

ISA Green Efforts

Thank you for using our online services. For the 2011 Convention in Montreal ISA reduced its paper usage by 98% for exhibitor, advertisers and sponsorship applications. Thank you for helping ISA be Green!