MLS-11 - Meeting Discussion

A meeting is a assembly of two or more citizenries that has been convoked for the purpose of achieving a common goal through verbal interaction, such as sharing data or reaching agreement. Meetings may come face to face or almost, as liaised by communications technology, such as a telephone conference call, a skyped conference call or a videoconference. In a meeting, two or more people work together to talk about one or more issues, often in a formal background.

Thus, a meeting may be discerned from other gatherings, such as a go encounter (not convened), a sports game or a concert (verbal interaction is incidental), a party or the society of friends (no common goal is to be achieved) and a presentment (whose common goal is attained mainly through the number of sales demonstrators present, not verbal interaction).

Commercially, the term is used by meeting planners and other meeting professional persons to point out an event held at a hotel, convention center or any other venue devoted to in such assemblages.  In this signified, the expression meeting extends a lecturing (one presentation), seminar (typically various presentations, small audience, one day), conference (mid-size, one or more days), congress (big, respective days), exhibition or trade show (with manned stands being visited by passers-by), workshop (minor, with dynamic players), training course, team-building seance and kick-off case.