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The face2face MeetingsNet blog is an eclectic mix of news about meetings and events, hospitality, and business travel, along with helpful hints and the occasional rant.

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ASAE: An observation
Aug 14, 2007
I wonder if it struck anyone else as odd that the sessions, even those marked as M&E Day offerings, had very little to do with meeting...
ASAE day 2: General session
Aug 14, 2007
The musical thing is, as I thought it may, starting to get old. But still, the way they used it to thank...
Chicago factoid
Aug 13, 2007
The bus driver who got us to the McCormick Center yesterday for ASAE and The Center's annual meeting dropped...
ASAE: Opening General Session
Aug 13, 2007
ASAE and The Center took a bit of a risk with the opening general session yesterday. The event was kicked off with a musical, with songs geared toward the association world. This is kind of old hat, and if not done extremely well, could be pretty...
I'm out-hipped by my hotel
I'm out-hipped by my hotel
Aug 11, 2007
I've been in some nice hotels before, but I've never felt out-hipped by one until I got to The James this morning, just off Chicago's Magnificent Mile. This is more or less what my room looks like (I just pulled this shot from their Web site, so...
Humanus borealis
Humanus borealis
Aug 11, 2007
It may not be on your top 10 list for a meetings or incentives destination, but I just fell in love with Alaska on my trip there this past week. Cruise West, the company that handled our group of 16 celebrants of my parents' 50th anniversary, did...
Prime your attendees?
Aug 05, 2007
Our subconscious brain is an amazing thing. We may think we're in charge, but subtle things in our environment can have a big impact. This New York Times article tells us how&8212;and, I think, provides some pretty good hints on how meeting...
A different kind of Q-storming
Aug 04, 2007
Sometimes, the process of just asking questions can be almost as powerful as answers; hence the potential of processes like Q...
Top 10 hospitality trends
Aug 02, 2007
Hotels are going in some much-needed directions for summer and fall 2007, according to this article on HotelOnline. Of course...
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