Mitchell Beer, CMM

Taxi drivers in Montréal are finally speaking up for themselves. Six doormen at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel were recently charged with extortion, intimidation, and conspiracy “for allegedly forcing taxi drivers...

It’s easy to forget how one wrong assumption can take us down a series of blind alleys, closing off options that would have brought better results to an organization—or to hundreds or thousands of conference...

An intense debate has broken out within the fabulously innovative online community behind the EventCamp conference series...

Undervaluing meetings knowledge and experience is one of the quickest ways to drive anyone in our industry from zero to 60. We react immediately and loudly when we hear meeting professionals written off as “party...

As social media continues to weave itself into the conference experience, organizers are searching for ways to join the conversation. Over the last several months, our firm has begun using Twitter to create instant...

Imagine if an event company or facility kept raising prices and cutting service, created huge logistical roadblocks for customers, proved incapable of turning a profit, then pushed back on regulators’ attempts to...

The flurry of comments on my recent column about climate change, “Opryland Under Water,” pointed to the communication pitfalls that await any meeting whose message runs too far out of control...

Over the last few days, I’ve been slowly returning to Earth after soaring through the innovative design and timely content of EventCamp Twin Cities, a hybrid meeting that brought 100 participants to Minneapolis...