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The face2face MeetingsNet blog is an eclectic mix of news about meetings and events, hospitality, and business travel, along with helpful hints and the occasional rant.

Snakes on a plane, the real-life version
Aug 10, 2006
Not the ophidians or the movie—but the human kind that was thwarted this morning from blowing up planes flying from the U.K. to the U.S. I won't go into all the gory details (you can get that the gazillion news reports out there, such as this one...
One step forward, two steps back
Aug 09, 2006
As someone who's looking forward to attending the Jimmy Buffett concert this Saturday at Great Woods (OK, its name now is "The Tweeter Center," but I can't write that with a straight face), I thought it was a nice touch when I received an e-mail...
Travel hot spots may not be where you think
Aug 08, 2006
Did you know that you're more likely to be killed in Caracas, Venezuela, than in Baghdad? I didn't, before I read this article in USA Today. For planners with meetings in destinations that may have a less-than-stellar rep that isn't deserved, get...
Rewarding meeting professionals
Aug 08, 2006
Granted, we didn't get very many responses to this poll on how organizations reward their meetings professionals, but what results we did get I found a tad depressing. Thirty-three percent said their organization doesn't reward meetings...
A hotel that digs worms
A hotel that digs worms
Aug 07, 2006
Worms are a wonderful thing, as South Africa's Mount Nelson hotel has discovered. The hotel has added a worm farm where the wrigglers eat up the organic waste from the kitchen, resulting in a lovely "worm tea" that it uses to fertilize the h...
Free tech support forum
Aug 07, 2006
Here's a free tech support site, brought to you by UNLV professor Patti Shock, via the MeCo listserv. Thanks, Patti!
In defense of meetings
Aug 07, 2006
Some people say that live meetings are going to go the way of the Dodo bird, but not at the U.S. Department of Defense. "The Pentagon sent 36,000 military and civil service employees to 6,600 conferences worldwide last year at an average cost of ...
Mediocrity and creativity
Aug 07, 2006
I just saw an interesting post on the Soflow Creative Forum (subscription req'd) that made me think. The poster posited...
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