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If you ever need a reason to be glad we don't do business on a handshake anymore, this cautionary tale ought to do it: Wal-Mart's former video-production company now is selling footage from its meetings. Including some things its execs, former...

At the green meeting session this morning at NEMICE (led by my colleague at Corporate Meetings & Incentives, Barbara Scofidio), I was in charge of keeping the discussion going on greening up conference bags, gifts, and giveaways. ...

I ventured into Boston today to check out NEMICE, the New England Meeting Industry Conference and Exposition, and it was interesting. ...

That's the name of the (relatively) new blog this industry guru is now writing over at the Meetings Collaborative, where you also can rate hotels from a meetings perspective, and do lots more fun stuff. Check out Joan's blog here. Particularly...

This is a new one on me: When an organization failed to pay its meeting tab on time, the facility started to charge the attendees. From an article in the ReviewJournal.com: ...

Fellow frugal fliers may want to join me in bookmarking this post from Travelhacker: The Top 50 Resources for Getting a Cheap Flight. I hadn't even heard of some of these before.

John Moore over at Brand Autopsy has been doing a "would you miss" series of posts that I've found to be fascinating, if a little scary. Like yesterday's entry: Would you miss Pizza Hut if it went out of business tomorrow? He adds: ...

So far, the best April fools have been hanging out at Google, which today brings us things like gDay ("Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the...

If so, check out the (relatively) new job board over at Confabb. It looks like it has quite a few meeting planner jobs posted--one of which just may be the perfect match for you or someone you know. ...

No, you don't have to know what a Squidoo is. All you have to know is that Marlys K. Arnold put together a great resource for her session, "Podcasts, Wikis & Blogs ... Oh My!" recently at a KCMPI Professional Education Conference, then posted...