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.
If you haven't yet seen Grand Rapids, Mich.'s response to being put on Newsweek's list of the top 10 dying U.S. cities, the city didn't just lay down and die. It stood up and made what Roger Ebert calls "The greatest music video ever made." I don...
Marriott International came up with a pretty novel way to recruit new people to come work in its hotels: A game available for free on Facebook called My Marriott Hotel. Positioned as a Farmville for the hotel business, it's designed to let users...
David Peckinpaugh's new position as president of Maritz Travel is big news for sure, but how it gets pushed out to the world can be, well, interesting. Take ...
This is brilliant, and something every conference organizer needs to put at the very heart of their program: Stop Doing Things to People. David Gurteen is so right when he points out that so many of our interactions (especially at conferences!)...
HotelChatter has come out with its picks for the top hotels for geeks, and I must be one, because I got awfully excited about things like the switch in The Eccelston Square Hotel bathrooms that turns the glass from see-through to opaque, and the...
I've been trying to wrap my mind around this article, which excoriates a medical society for making money at its show by selling sponsorships and booth space. ...
I was talking with a friend this morning about her son, who will be graduating from high school this year. It seems like the tradition at this school is that the seniors pull some kind of prank at graduation. One year, the audience walked into...
According to Special Events, caterers are saying the hot trends in food and beverage these days can be summed up as, "make it small and take it outside." So, I guess the now-ubiquitous sliders will be with us for a while longer, as will picnics...