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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.

Off topic: Words of wisdom
Aug 22, 2008
I ran across this today on another forum and wanted to share. Even if it has nothing to do with meetings, it has a lot to do with being human: ...
U.S. cities: Where the taxes are
Aug 21, 2008
Here's an interesting study (download from link) from the National Business Travel Association that compares lodging, rental car, and meal taxes in the top 50 U.S. cities. When you compare hotel, car, and meal taxes over a one-day period, the...
ASAE: Closing session
Aug 20, 2008
I have to say I'm with Kevin on Rene Mauborgne’s keynote about Blue Ocean Strategy. I know it's been around for a while now, but there's a lot we all can learn from little success stories like Nintendo's Wii. Instead we had a lot of what Kevin...
ASAE Day 3: Get record attendance for your event
Aug 20, 2008
This was the money session for me, the one that made it all worth while. If you haven't had the chance to see Ron Rosenberg of QualityTalk Inc. in action, do try. He is one fantastic presenter. I mean, not only did he keep me awake (no small feat...
ASAE Day 2: Marketing session
Aug 20, 2008
I had to miss the morning learning labs to go to the press conference (I'll try to hit some highlights of that in another post), but I did get to one in the afternoon that was not bad. I didn't learn anything earth-shattering, but it was a good...
ASAE: Catch the t's
ASAE: Catch the t's
Aug 20, 2008
I didn't go schwagging at the ASAE and The Center's expo, but I ran into lots of people laden with bags and bags of stuff. Sure, there were lots of other goodies, but stuffed animals and t-shirts seemed to be the biggest thing this year. Of the ts...
Free time in San Diego
Aug 19, 2008
I had pretty much no free time while in town, other than Monday night (I was kind of priced out of the big Food and Wine Classic, held on the USS Midway. I heard so many good things about this that I wish I had coughed up the dough to attend after...
ASAE: Nice touch
Aug 19, 2008
I forgot to mention one thing I really liked in the opening session on Sunday was a video montage they did. Looks like they visited a bunch of member associations and taped them doing a dance, a la "Where the H*** is Matt" (see below if you...
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