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Inspired by the Washington Post's annual word list, which invites readers to add/subtract/change a letter in a word to give it a whole new meaning (examples: sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get...

As if you don't get enough of my babbling here--I was interviewed earlier this week, along with Jeffrey D. Brown of TradeShowBlues fame, on Association Nation Radio about (no big surprise) blogging. If you are in the Washington, D.C., area, you...

If your attendee demographics lean toward the older set, they might enjoy some of the classic radio shows from yesteryear that MSN Music just announced it's offering for sale. I don't know about copyright issues for old Bob Hope shows or an...

Remember last October when I reported here at face2face on Ft. Lauderdale's free convention space program? Looks like USAE just heard about it: It's the lead item in USAE's March 3 e-newsletter. I mean, I don't always keep up with everything, but...

Hard to believe that Corporate Meetings & Incentives magazine is turning 25 this year! The editors have put together an excellent compilation of nostalgia, trends, perspectives, and other fun stuff for those of us who like to stroll down...

I am blessed with having one of the great managers of all times, Tamar Hosansky. She daily inspires me to stretch and grow both myself and my job. While I doubt she's even read this article by Marcus Buckingham from the Harvard Business Review ...

I just read a post over at Slashdot that got me thinking. It said: "I want to hear from readers who have quit jobs or turned down offered jobs because it was not what they wanted to do. Why did you do it? Was it ethics, ambition, pride, or disgust...

Wow, this is really something--but what exactly to make of it, I'm not sure. Southwest Airlines has come up with a new program it calls "Ding," which will let you download a little icon that will ding whenever the airline has a hot sale going on...

The U.S. Supreme court heard arguments yesterday on whether the ADA extends to cruise ships that call at U.S. ports. Here is a link to an article about it in the New York Times (free registration req'd). While I think it's a crying shame that all...

Last week, an editorial I wrote for MeetingsNet Extra, about PCMA's going through CEOs like a kid with a bag of Oreos, got a lot of responses. I was a little bemused by the explanations we were given for the latest ouster of David Kushner, and...