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Saw this on the MiForum listserv this morning and got a good howl out of it: The fun, weird, funny things asked for in the Foo Fighters rider, brought to you by the Smoking Gun. Some rough language, but man is it funny! ...

I loved this session, which was kind of a speed-dating thing where you pick a topic table, discuss that topic for 20 minutes, then shift to a new topic table. The three I hit during the session were: Extreme makeover, trade show edition; social...

I felt sort of obligated to go to a session on negotiating convention center contracts, since it is I'm sure something our readers would want to know more about, even though I really wanted to start off the day with the "Making the WOW factor...

I know the new coolio teleprompters that are clear and posed on either side of the speaker are all the rage these days, but at IAEE's opening session last night I felt kind of bad for the speakers, most of whom looked like they were trying to keep...

Let's see if this works: It's supposed to pull in all the latest Twitter posts and flickr updates tagged "IAEE." ...

Other than some serious last-minute rushing to make my flight due to some weird traffic phenomena, the trip to Miami for the IAEE Expo Expo was pleasantly, well, pleasant. And my room at the Doubletree is serviceable, even though I have the world...

I generally am pretty little-kid about holiday decorations—it doesn't take much to make me go "ooh." But hotel lobbies do tend to overdo it at times. Or so Hotel Chatter thinks. Here's their pick of the five ugliest types of hotel lobby Christmas...

For smaller meetings, I love this idea from David at the Association Executive Management blog (though you should be sure to keep in mind the caveat brought up in the comments).

If your attendees are on the nerdy side (and hey, that's not a bad thing to be called these days--even geeks can be popular), Wired has for just the hotels to hold your meetings at. Check out Geek Hotels Pass the Nerd Test for the details.

Yup, they sure can, much to all our chagrin. Here's an interesting exploration on the why's and how's of this phenomena, from a guy on eTurbo News with two knee replacements and an unfortunate and unexpected change in seat assignments. A snip: ...