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I'm looking forward to being able to congratulate this year's International Association of Exhibitions and Events IAEE Individual Award winners at Expo! Expo in a couple of months! To see who won, and more about the awards, click here.

We all travel with laptops these days (at least, those of us who haven't succumbed to BlackBerry envy yet). But are we doing so wisely? Here are some laptop travel tips I received via e-mail today from Michael Miller, author of the new book, Your...

That's the title of this thought-provoking article from the Conference Board. Covering the topic of meeting spend consolidation and tracking in the corporate world, it has a few choice quotes, including: ...

If you're not nice to them, they won't be nice to you, either—in fact, they could get you sent for extra screening, make you check more bags, move you to the dreaded seats by the bathrooms, or even get you bumped from your flight, according to...

How do you know when you're flying too much? For me, it's when I start salivating at the thought of salt-free, low-fat pretzels, or when I start singing along to the airport Muzak, or when I bring my own stash of Zip-Lock Baggies to hand out to...

Some people on the MeCo listserv are talking about having work-related dreams. While it was by no means my "dream job," once upon a time, in just-barely-there computer days, I was in charge of putting together a huge buyers guide. ...

I have nothing more to say, other than it has to be Monday! Here are some strange items that crawled across my monitor since Friday—read 'em and weep: ...

Even though Marriott last year announced that it was going 100 percent smoke-free, the Marriott Marquis in New York will be hosting something called the Big Smoke, a gathering of cigar aficionados that will donate a portion of the proceeds to...

There's a great conversation going on over at Acronym about word-of-mouth marketing and associations. Since what I know about association member recruitment and retention wouldn't fill a thimble, I'll leave that part up to the experts. But as I...

From the Official Google Blog: ...