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That's the question asked in an e-mail I got this morning from Microsoft Office Live Meetings. As of when I voted this morning, 46 percent said 1-5 trips per year. The surprise for me was that the second highest response was that 22 percent took...

Ironically, Bangladesh officials are rousting beggars from the streets of Dhaka as the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation meeting comes to town. Ironic, because the association's mission is to provide "a platform for the peoples of...

For updates on the attacks on the Radisson SAS Hotel (guests evacuated), go to radisson.com, or call the corporate office at (402) 501-5000. For the Hyatt, check hyatt.com, or call the information hotline at (402) 935-5348. No news yet on the Days...

Ladies and gentlemen, how do your salaries stack up when compared side to side (and is it even possible to stack something side to side)? In addition to the MPI 2005 Salary Survey, here's a nifty little tool called the Getting Even Wage Calculator...

The National Business Travel Association is reaching out to Homeland Security and other federal agencies to lend its expertise to the Adminstration's proposed $7.1 billion plan to save us all from bird flu, should it jump from fowl to human. From...

Forward this post on PowerPoint slides from PresentationZen to every presenter at your next meeting. It's a terrific, visual way to understand what does and doesn't work. Beautiful!

Doug Rushkoff's new book, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out, sounds like a must-read for any meeting planner (not to mention your organization's leadership). Rushkoff is posting tidbits from the book, things he calls 'thought...

Prescott Shibles, a very savvy guy in all things tech, really ...

It seems like pretty much everyone sends out press releases touting their event to the local (and beyond, depending on the topic) media. So how come most meetings PR don't seem to generate any results? Speaker and futurist Jim Carroll has some...

The newish Yahoo Maps API, and Google Maps API have some pretty cool meetings applications, and you don't even have to be a geek to use them. Just think: You could have a map, either on the Google or Yahoo sites or in your own Web site, that...