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.
Your attendees might say it was a great learning experience, or excellent for networking, but would they say it's "insanely cool"? I didn't think so. I've been to some great conferences, but insanely cool? Nope. I'm not even sure what would be...
About the furthest I've gone is the emoticon smiley face, but some people go wild turning dashes, dots, and x's into art. Check out the entries Wired got for its ASCII Gallery, from a rendering of Michelango's Creation of Man to a pretty realistic...
Other than Berkeley Breathed's spectacular Opus last Sunday, which I can't find a link to, here's a link to the best airline-related travel comic I've seen lately.
Someone just asked me if I knew of any data about the actual extent to which people are using use social media in the promotion, implementation and assessment of their meetings. If you know of any such studies, please drop a note in the comments...
The future has arrived: Take a look at the hotel room of tomorrow, brought to you by MSNBC. I love the idea of having an in-room Wii to play with, and an alarm clock that not only works but is cool as well? Who could say no to that?
Forbes has come out with its list of most annoying airline fees--fuel surcharges and fees for better seats are just the beginning. And, it warns, we can expect to see more coming in the future. Oh good, let's just make flying even more irritating...