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This is pretty cool wrap of yesterday. The opening reception last night was exactly what I thought Vegas would do -- brat pack and Elvis impersonators, dancers, lots of glitz and flash and dancing and great food. I have to try walking around wit...
I finally made it to Vegas, baby, for the 2011 Professional Convention Management annual meeting, "Convening Leaders," after a day that started at 4 am Eastern time with our dog looking at me like I'm completely insane for being up at that hour...
OK, maybe revolution is a tad strong, but Sam's five wishes for the meeting industry this year, if we can make them come true, really could revolutionize the meeting experience. ...
While this study mainly concentrated on what happens when people eat lunch while playing computer games (hint: They eat more), it also may hold true for eating during other types of distractions. Like, say, the programming you have going on at a...
I just found a neat little URL you can use to check whether or not your airport has one of those backscatter scanners and, if it does, if it is in use. I can't vouch for its veracity, but it's a pretty cool idea. ...
How often do you find the bandwidth falling short of your audience's needs at a large ballroom or convention center? Yeah, me too. The New York Times has an interesting article explaining why this is the current state of affairs (which the NYT...
I read an interesting article in The Boston Globe today about the intelligence of groups -- which, it turns out, has nothing to do with the average intelligence of the group's members or how smart the smartest person in the group is. Instead, the...