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.
Just read about Vivaty on the Scobleizer and thought, gee, this could be a cool new tool for meeting planners. Robert Scoble likens it to Second Life, in a way, only with more widespread appeal. Scoble explains: ...
This is so cool: Some artists created artwork made out of grass for the 2008 Wimbledon tennis championship. From CR Blog (click the link to see a picture of the Wimbledon artworks): ...
Johnnie Moore poses an interesting question: "Go into any pub and you'll see how easy it is for us human beings to organise enlivening meetings. How come we make it seem so hard in our offices?" ...
If I owned an airline, I'd do my best to eliminate all those fees, but some people think differently. Take David Owen, whose My Airline piece in the latest New Yorker got me hooting. I particularly like the idea of charging $50 to the person who...
I was so glad to hear that Richard Branson is planning to develop an eco-resort on Mosquito Island in the British Virgin Islands. Beside thinking that wind and solar power really should be a no-brainer in a place like the BVI, I'm just looking...
I just found a great little tool called MapMyWalk, which allows you to set up a walking/jogging/biking/whatever route anywhere you go. It tracks miles, calories burned, what the route is like, all kinds of things, and you can share it with others...
I saw this posted on the MeCo listserv this morning and well, my stomach still hurts from laughing. Joe Cocker's performance at Woodstock, translated: ...
I get press releases all the time about how a conference had record attendance or went over the top in some other way. But I have never, ever, as a journalist or as an attendee, heard of something like this e-mail Cindy at AE on the Verge talks...