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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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Giveaway ideas for your attendees' inner geek

Jan 14, 2012

If your attendees come to your meetings bristling with iPads, iPhones, and an assortment of other iTems, you'd best be prepared with...

Oh, just one more #PCMA12 post

Jan 13, 2012

This is really more to ask you all for feedback of various types. I'm curious about a few things: ...

#PCMA12 Day 3: An open discussion among medical meeting planners

Jan 12, 2012

I spend a lot of time with continuing medical education providers, but not so much with the meeting planners who...

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#PCMA12 Day 3: General session with TED creator Richard Saul Wurman

Jan 12, 2012

I had been looking forward to this one because, while I'm not sure Richard Saul Wurman's done the world a favor by unleashing a million TED knockoffs (then again, I shouldn't blame him for others piggybacking on an idea that may not be a great fit...

#PCMA12 Day 2: Bringing Education to the Trade Show Floor

Jan 12, 2012

I also went to an interesting session on incorporating product theaters on the trade show floor. It was moderated by John Houghton with the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, who also showed lots of slides of different product theater setups...

#PCMA12 Day 2: Glenn Thayer at the Learning Pavilion on general sessions

Jan 12, 2012

Let's face it: Most general sessions are pretty boring. People go expecting to have to suffer a half hour, an hour, some seemingly endless amount of time as the association runs through its business issues and updates, thanks sponsors, etc....

Post-PCMA: Talk about your weather whiplash

Jan 12, 2012

Yesterday we gathered in the early morning for the PCMA Fun Run/Walk just as dawn was breaking. It was in the mid- to high-50s, clear and gorgeous—a perfect day for a run (or walk, or whatever). ...

#PCMA12 Day 2: Kathleen Edwards at the Learning Pavilion

Jan 11, 2012

Another great info-chunker is learning evangelist Kathleen Edwards, who is rapidly becoming one of my new favorite meeting...

#PCMA12 Day 2: Gina Schreck at the Big Ideas Pavilion

Jan 11, 2012

One big upside of the #PCMA12 experiment with having different time frames for the different sessions is that I could go to one...

#PCMA12 Day 2: What marketers want from your events

Jan 11, 2012

I've experienced this type of "from the horse's mouth" customer advice session from Sam Lippman's ECEF in the past, and they've...

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