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That's how this AP article says the next generation view e-mail, anyway. They'd rather text message than e-mail, and in fact don't check their e-mail very often (which, compulsive e-mailer that I am, is incomprehensible). While they still do use...

I know meeting planners tend to like to have control over every detail, but the Beijing 2008 Olympics organizers are really going wild. According to Reuters...

It's not enough that they make us look at ads on tray tables and charge us for food—coming soon to US Airways: Advertising on seatpocket barf bags. From USA Today...

More about the "more is better" conference model I wrote about earlier, where the organizers cram so much into the allotted time that there's no time to reflect, or talk with colleagues, or do anything other than passively sit there and attempt to...

The news that Marriott was implementing a smoking ban in all U.S. and Canadian properties got the meeting industry listservs lighting up this morning, so to speak. I tried to get answers for most of the questions planners were posting in this...

Since so many organizations use auctions—silent and otherwise—as fundraisers, I thought I’d share some ideas a brilliant group of planners I’ve been e-chatting with came up with...

According to research conducted for ground transportation services company BostonCoach that was released today at the National Business Travel Association International Convention and Exposition in Chicago, 70 percent of attendees are not happy...

Need to check out how your ballroom set will work, or have any other diagramming needs? Check out Gliffy.com for a free room layout design tool. Thanks to Patti Shock for the pointer.

I've been trying to stay away from all the stuff that's been going around the blogosphere about Alaska Senator Ted Stevens' explanation of the Internet as a "series of tubes," but this Jon Steward clip on YouTube on 'net neutrality and online...