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All the corporate scandals of the past few years have had people in an uproar over corporate responsibility, or the lack thereof. Then I read in Sunday’s Boston Globe that when headhunting firm Christian & Timbers reviewed 7,000 executive...

There are some great ideas on ConventionPlanit’s site, compiled by and for planners. The best part, to me anyway, is that you get to vote on your favorites. ...

This article from msnbc.com reminds me of the old days when I’d fly between Denver and the East Coast via People’s Express (remember that low-budget airline?) and actually looked forward to getting bumped for the free tickets. Nowadays, seems like...

I just ran across an article I wrote for Association Meetings a while back on social, military, educational, religious, and fraternal (SMERF) meetings, and thought this part of it is still pretty funny--and relevant: ...

According to an article on hotel-online, The Fairfield Inn by Marriott is among the hotels that don’t just chuck or auction off the old stuff after a renovation. Instead, they donate them to Habitat for Humanity and other charitable organizations...

Earlier in the week I went into a mini-rant about how hard it is to be a semi-vegetarian in a high-protein, low-carb-crazed meeting world. Then I got to thinking maybe it's just me, and that meetings really aren't going Atkins-friendly. Not, at...

If you ever start feeling that you can't make a difference, keep this quote from Margaret Mead in mind: ...

For some reason, as I sat on the runway at NYC’s LaGuardia airport last night, waiting for a huge line of thunderstorms to move through so we could take off, I got to thinking about the "meetings industry." What exactly is it, and what should it...

Just curious about what people think about this article from MPI's magazine. An online group I'm involved with took great offense to this guy's take on all the dumb questions planners have to field, like, "when's the noon luncheon?" ...

Food for thought from this week's Society for Hospitality Management's training bulletin: ...