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The city of Bellingham, Wash., filed a lawsuit against hotels.com, Priceline.com, Travelocity.com, and Orbitz.com, saying that they buy in bulk and pay the low bulk taxes, but the city loses out when customers pay the higher rates after buying the...

OK, this is really cool, even though probably no one's using it much. Kim Reist, CMP, events/logistics manager, Office of Conference Management at the Texas Medical Association recently clued me in to Peekko.com, which opens up an irc chat channel...

If you haven't yet discovered Guy Kawasaki's Let the Good Times Roll blog, I highly recommend checking it out. Some of my favorites that apply to the meetings world at least a little bit: The Art of Schmoozing The Effective E-mailer

I'm stealing this one from Hugh at Gaping Void, who says pet toys are "Passive-aggressive bloggers and blog commenters who spend a disproportionate amount of time making lots of little sqeaky noises, not dissimilar to those chewy rubber things you...

What can I say, I love listservs. I just joined the two Google Group listservs, MeCo (short for MeetingsCommunity) and MiForum, which currently is replacing the bulletin board community that replaced the venerated MIMlist listserv. From the double...

Anyone who's in charge of motivating employees should check out these hilarious, yet scary podcasts from Despair.com. Then do the exact opposite of what's shown. Even if you're not in the motivational business, check them out for sheer...

Tradeshow marketing expert Rich Westerfield has signed off on his TSMI blog. His voice, his thoughts, and his continual pushing against the boundaries of tradeshow business as usual will be missed, but I appreciate that he feels it's time to move...

I just read about a terrific technique for getting unstuck when you're facing a seemingly insurmountable problem: Ask five "why" questions. From Fast Company Now...

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From Chief Marketer, of interest to anyone who publishes an e-newsletter (as part of conference marketing, or just in general)...