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I just saw this on Lara McCulloch-Carter's blog and thought it was the coolest thing I've seen in a long, long time. Downright Baaaaazar, I say. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw[/youtube]

Meeting planners of course always bone up on the local laws and customs of their meeting's locale, but sometimes the local rules can defy all logic (and perhaps even sanity). Check out this great roundup of the world's strangest laws, on the off...

Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone, speaks out about the value of meetings. Listen up, people!

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Check out this survey on Meetings Collaborative. It asks "Is the economy causing your business to suffer in 2009?" As of this morning Yes - significant 64.3% Yes - slight 30% No - 5.6% Wow.

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Great editorial in today's New York Times about business travel and meetings. Writer Ben Stein's money quote for me was: "Business meetings are not the enemy. In terms of making the nation more productive and better off, they are builders, not...

From Hotel Chatter: How to avoid Paying for Multiple WiFi Connections in One Room

Another brilliant post from Hugh at Gaping Void: What do middle seats on airplanes and the recession have in common? Maybe it's not a perfect analogy, but pretty darn close.

Well, that's not quite the headline of Chris Brogan's awesome post (The Art of Butts in Chairs), but he's right, putting together a conference is an art. One that entails the sort of vision that makes it easy for attendees to take it all for...