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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.

Stupid things hotel guests say
Stupid things hotel guests say
May 13, 2011
An anonymous Twitterer from a New York City hotel is cracking me up this morning tweeting some of the stupid things being said by hotel guests. And the tweeter, who goes by the handle @guestsfromhell, seems to overhear a lot of them. (Click on the...
Mobile meeting apps in the news
May 12, 2011
The New York Times has caught onto the latest must-have meeting tool: the mobile app. This must mean that they've hit the mainstream now. ...
Blogging booth space allocation
May 12, 2011
I've been a big fan of blogging for pretty much everything to do with a conference, but I'd never heard of an organization using a blog to perk up and streamline its booth space selection process before. Nice!
Time to say something nice about the TSA
May 05, 2011
I just read this post from TSA's blogger Bob about the quick actions TSA agents took as the tornadoes ripped through the St. Louis airport. I tend to be a touch critical of TSA, but in this case, there are a few people who must be awfully glad...
PowerPoint primer, with humor
May 05, 2011
Love, love this video of Don McMillan doing his "Life After Death By Powerpoint." It should be required viewing for any speaker at any meeting anywhere, ever. Plus it's funny (fellow font geeks, check out the best/worst font joke ever around 2:18)...
Looking for some good general session set examples
Apr 29, 2011
Because everyone could use a little inspiration, we want to put together some photo galleries of really well-executed general session stage sets. So consider this a call-out to agencies, production companies, AV producers, and general contractors...
ASAE's Meeting Guru: Brilliant spoof or a turn off?
Apr 27, 2011
I love a good spoof as much as the next person (I still think the Alaska Air spoof site was hilarious), but I'm not so sure The Meeting Guru promo for ASAE's upcoming annual meeting works quite the way they hope it will. At least, not for the...
Insights on social media and pharmaceutical meeting management
Apr 25, 2011
One of my favorite sessions from this year's Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum that we cosponsored last month with The Center for Business Intelligence was one led by our Medical Meetings social media columnist, Brian McGowan, PhD. I...
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