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The headline in question? A Hotel GM's Worst Nightmare: Hotel Security Guard with Lengthy Prior Arrest Record, Investigated for Assaulting a Teenage Guest and Throwing the Girl Over Sixth Floor Balcony ...

Check out the new YouTube channel the Association Forum of Chicagoland recently launched. This is way cool--at least in concept. I haven't had time to review the vids yet, but the topics sound good, though the only one that may have direct links...

Boy, talk about timing! I just finished publishing this post and its musings about technology adoption etc., etc., when I ran across this post on A Wider Net about attendees basically hijacking a keynote interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

Mike Mason from the Farm Credit Council again is posting lessons learned from this year's meeting. I especially like that he actually tried some of the meeting print program improvements he posted about last year, even if they didn't always work...

The South By Southwest media and music conference, aka SXSW, is getting a reputation for using the latest technology to enhance the experience for attendees. This year, according to this Wired article, the technology was Sched.org, a scheduling...

I ran across this on a bulletin board I frequent and thought it was worth sharing:

"Don’t listen to the voice in your head without verifying the identity of the speaker."

Made me stop and think, anyway.

Check out the Cactus Cuties, a singing group of eight- to 13-year-old girls singing The Star Spangled Banner at the Texas Tech vs Texas basketball game earlier this year. Here's the video link. ...

The list of best geek hotels is in: Here they are. Figures, I haven't stayed in any of them. Yet.

Here are a couple of good Web sites for planners, courtesy of Jim Spellos of Meeting-U's Techniques e-newsletter: ...

PowerPoint karaoke--where people pick up random presentations from the Web and wing 'em in front of an audience--is no longer just for geeks, according to this article in the Boston Globe. Here's how it works, from the article: ...