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Jason Alexander as Donny Clay, motivational speaker, at lunch today: OMG! I could not even begin to describe his act, but suffice to say there were several minutes-long stretches where I was laughing so hard tears came to my eyes. My stomach is...

So, here's a quick skip on the session I just went to about making meetings relevant to Generation Y, aka Gen Why, as speaker Eric Chester called them. ...

If you think you know everything there is about searching on Google, go hear Jim Spellos of Meeting U talk about it. Holy cow, I had no idea of all the functionality there is out there, and I consider myself fairly Google-savvy. More later, since...

I may not be able to say it, but I am now a big fan of this new presentation format that four intrepid presenters tried out as an experiment in which the audience got to take part. (Here are some YouTube examples of the format in action). The...

I would talk about the macro trends Peter Yesawich talked about at the PCMA Annual Meeting luncheon yesterday, except we already covered them pretty well when he gave about the same talk last year (article is here). ...

I went to a fabulous session on how to increase communication and collaboration to both bring innovation to the meeting planning/content building/marketing process, and to make the process work much more smoothly than it all-too-often does...

Microsoft marketing guru Mich Mathews kicked off the PCMA conference yesterday morning with a much more engaging presentation than Monday's Gilmore and Pine session, I thought. Though she didn't really say much I hadn't heard before (word of mouth...

I found the session yesterday afternoon on Web 2.0, led by Corbin Ball, a little disappointing. Yeah, it's interesting that we've gone from 133 Web sites in total back in 1993 to 9 million sites being added each hour now (if I heard that right...

I went to a really interesting session this afternoon at the PCMA Annual Meeting called "The Law of Doing Good Things." Led by one of my favorite meeting industry attorneys/professors Tyra Hilliard, it was all about how being a good Samaritan can...

At the PCMA Annual Meeting general session this morning, Authenticity and The Experience Economy coauthors Jim Gilmore and Joe Pine did the best they could to condense hundreds of pages of explaining their five genres of authenticity and how to...