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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.

Eat locally, eat illegally?
Sep 08, 2008
Small, local farmers have been enjoying a boon these days as more restaurants try to buy ingredients locally, but it appears there may be a problem, at least in Minnesota: Minnesota Monthly's Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl heard from a local...
Off topic: Google Chrome
Sep 03, 2008
By now I'm sure you've heard about Google's new browser, Chrome. When I read about it on the official Google blog yesterday, I thought, hmm, sounds great. Too bad, like is all-too-often the case, it doesn't run on Mac yet. Sigh. I hope those of...
RNC updates
Sep 03, 2008
If you want some on-the-scene updates from people who know what meeting professionals want to hear, head on over to the Meetings: Minnesota's Hospitality Journal. Always a good read, I'm especially enjoying their coverage of this week's events in...
School of Everything
Sep 03, 2008
I just heard about the School of Everything, and can't help but wonder if it eventually could become a good resource for conference organizers looking for educators. According to BoingBoing, this site will be ...
Hotel picks: Best in bathrooms
Hotel picks: Best in bathrooms
Aug 28, 2008
The eagerly awaited winners of the 7th annual “America’s Best Restroom” contest have been announced. Below is a photo of the women's room sink at the third-place finisher, Brio in Rockford, Ill. They're all funky, and I'm sure very functional, too...
Watch out, there's a magician in the house
Aug 27, 2008
Or, to be exact, a magician in the subway and amusement park, in this case. I mostly am posting this video because it had me laughing out loud, and who couldn't use a laugh? But also because I thought this could be an interesting idea to...
Dems in Denver: Green and techie
Aug 26, 2008
Organizers of the Democratic National Convention going on in Denver this week were good at letting the media know about what they were doing to green the convention (and despite the rumors, those wooden keycards are working). What I hadn't heard...
ASAE videos available
Aug 26, 2008
If you want to get a glimpse of what you missed if you didn't get to ASAE and The Center's annual meeting, or just want to hear a bit more from some of the speakers, check out the video clips available here. I'm guessing there's more to come...
Your comments wanted
Aug 22, 2008
Just wanted to let you know that our main site, MeetingsNet.com, now invites you to comment on articles. You do have to register (just takes a second, we don't ask a lot of questions), but then you can tell us what you think and, on the off chance...
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