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.
I hadn't heard of Sinkie day before, (Sinkie=Standing In Nutritious Kitchens Ingesting Everything), but the day after Thanksgiving in the U.S. might as well be celebrated in style. So check out sinkie.com for letters from guilt-free Sinkies, how...
If your attendees hate to swat while swinging during your golf tournament, or your incentive winners like to complain about mosquitoes around the pool, check out American Biophysics new wi-fi bug zapper. From C/Net News.com...
Tradeshow entrepreneur Tim Bourquin writes eloquently about why he'll never reduce his budget line for security. Yow, are problems like the ones he's had really that common? I've never seen attendees get scary, but maybe I'm just lucky.
And another one climbs aboard the blog bus—looks like PCMA now has a show blog for its January conference. Just a couple of posts so far. I can't tell from looking at it if it's an official PCMA blog, or if it's the sponsor who is writing it...
It's been a long week at the planning office. Folks are tired and restless waiting for the weekend to finally arrive. In your voicemail you hear this message: "Hey, we would like to do a volunteer project as a social activity in conjunction with...
What is it with this sex-and-meetings trend this morning? I just ran across this article on Yahoo News about a poll that found some UK workers scheduling fake meetings on Friday afternoons so they could skip off to tryst with a significant other...
Wooing labor got taken a little too literally, resulting in so-called "sex junkets" where corporate executives sent labor leaders to Rio to tour facilities, meet with local labor officials, and frolic with prostitutes, alleges a former Volkswagen...
First the body scans, then the shoes, then the lighters...and now, they're coming up with a lie-detector test you'll have to be able to pass before climbing into a metal tube and shooting into the sky. From Reuters...
Because I'm both curious and a big copycat, I'm stealing Jeff Brown at Tradeshow Bluesblog' idea. I just made a Frappr map for face2face readers (it's based on Google Maps, a very cool application). Go ahead, add yourself to the map so we can all...
There's some interesting conversation going around about the weird idea I floated a couple days ago: Wouldn’t it be an interesting experiment to offer a conference, and people paid afterward for the amount it was worth to them...