face2face

This has nothing to do with meeting planning, other than the fact that so many planners are women; even married women. Check out "Don't Marry Career Women" in Forbes (which started out as a standalone article, got taken down, then reappeared with...

Cathy Chatfield-Taylor has posted some great tips on how to get paid what you're worth, based on a teleconference by Chris Marlow. While it's aimed at freelance writers, the advice applies just as well to independent meeting planners who want to...

European discount airline RyanAir doesn't appear too happy about the new airport security measures passengers have to go through (in fact, it's so mad about it, it wants to sue the government over lost business that has resulted). So it posted a...

Here's a handy list of TSA-compliant toiletries. Via Rebecca's Pocket, with thanks to Patti for the pointer! For TSA's official list of do's and don'ts when it comes to carryon items, click here.

Best: ...

I had planned to go to one of the M&E sessions Sunday afternoon, but after meeting Kathi Edwards, the learning evangelist, at the bloggercon and hearing some of her ideas, I decided to attend a session she and Jill McCrory were giving called ...

First, I win an official Red Sox baseball for tying for first place in ASAE and The Center's Big Boston Quiz (designed to teach this year's annual meetings attendees a little about the host city while having some fun), then I got to meet some of...

On Saturday, I went to a terrific session led by Bill Dyszel on blogs and podcasting. The number of people in the audience (which was relatively huge, I thought) who listened to podcasts and read blogs was much larger than I expected, as was the...

As I mentioned in this post, my group in today's open space session at ASAE and the Center's annual conference tackled how to overcome resistance to change when it comes to meetings. We started out looking at where the resistance comes from, and...

I had my first true taste of of using the open space format for a meeting today at ASAE and the Center's 2006 Annual Meeting, and I may just be hooked on it. As one participant said at the session's end, "I may have to miss the rest of today's...