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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.

New use for videoconferencing: Visas
Mar 12, 2006
According to this CNN story, videoconferencing is now being used to hasten the visa application interview process, which can be a huge hassle for business travelers (and meeting attendees from other countries trying to get to your meeting). From...
Congratulations to the new CMPs!
Mar 11, 2006
Congratulations to all the 432 people who passed the Certified Meeting Professional designation in January and who can now officially put those wonderful CMP letters after their names. The press release says a full list of new CMPs is at the...
Unite Here aims for Phoenician
Mar 11, 2006
When I read this story about the Unite Here labor union's plans to boycott The Phoenician in Scotsdale, along with speculation that the union plans to put national attention on Hilton, Marriott and Starwood, parent of the Phoenician, the Westin...
Friday fun: If you liked the Spirograph, you'll love this
Friday fun: If you liked the Spirograph, you'll love this
Mar 11, 2006
If you liked to play with a Spirograph when you were a kid, you'll love to play with String Spin from zefrank.com (there are too many toys there to play with! Thanks, I think, to Grass Shack Events & Media for a great source of endless time-was...
Chicago CTB seeing staff exodus
Mar 11, 2006
Forty-three Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau staff members have left over the past two years, according to this article. That's more than half its entire staff, and it's happening as group business is taking off in that town, the bureau has...
Rich desserts
Mar 11, 2006
First, there was the $1,000 frittata. Now you can treat your most discriminating meeting VIPs to the $1,000 "Grand Opulence" sundae, sold by New York's Serendipity restaurant. What could possibly make a dessert so expensive...
Giant floating meeting space?
Giant floating meeting space?
Mar 11, 2006
According to an item in Popular Science, a giant floating hotel, such as that rendered here by John MacNeill, may be soon looming over the skies. From the article: This two-football-fields-long concept airship is the brainchild of Igor Pas...
Friday fun: What celeb do you look like?
Friday fun: What celeb do you look like?
Mar 10, 2006
I've been told I look a little like Helen Hunt, but according to myheritage.com, a site that uses facial recognition technology, I most resemble Elizabeth Hurley (60 percent resemblance). Cool! I about half resemble Richard Pryor, too, so I'd take...
What your event Web site shouldn't do
Mar 10, 2006
There is a terrific, tongue-in-cheek post on Silicon Cloud called 12 Things to Irritate Your Visitors that every meeting/conference/convention planner should heed for their events' Web pages. Among the 12 things are pop-ups and -unders, and the...
Celebrate get over it day
Mar 10, 2006
Frustrated in your negotiations over your next meetings contract? Annoyed that the hotel salesperson you'd been working with for months suddenly up and left and now you're starting back at square one with a newbie? Hey, life is full of...
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