We know by now to thoroughly wash out hotel in-room coffee pots and to hit the TV remote with sanitizer before picking it up, but it doesn't end there for true germophobics. Check out this article for more things to gross out over in your hotel...

According to this survey by Special Events, events budgets are going to stay skintight in the coming year. Oh joy. From the article: ...

Once again, Jeff Hurt hits it out of the ballpark with this post: Four Principles For Planning Brain-Friendly Annual Meetings. Not only are his suggestions things I've been stumping for forever, but he includes some great, if a bit gross...

Everyone does the early-bird special pricing for those who sign up for next year's conference by a deadline, but surely there are more creative ways to get people to commit to coming by putting their bucks down now. In reading Seth Godin's post...

Ever wonder why you're getting ever-decreasing returns on your e-mail marketing efforts? Check out this post by Kevin Holland: Our Emails Are So Pretty, Our Messaging So Consistent … I Wonder Why Everybody Ignores Them? Like Kevin, there are some...

Picking an e-community tool to use in conjunction with an event can be tough, and it's getting tougher all the time as new things come onto the market all the time. Thanks to Jeff Hurt, who goes through 14 online e-community options for events. ...

Mike McAllen posted the top 5 qualities he thinks awesome meeting planners possess. I agree with every one of them! The only thing I can think of to add -- and it's sort of implied in a couple of his qualities -- is grace under pressure. And the...

The Washington Post has published its latest list of neologisms (new uses for old words), and there are some doozies (full list is here thanks to Pharma Gossip -- can't find it on the Post site for some reason). A few that meeting planners might...

By now everyone's heard about, talked about, and probably are sick of, the party crashers at the recent White House state dinner. While that turned out to be pretty innocuous, having uninvited attendees at any event is at best going to throw off...

Here's hoping they still look to your conferences for the answers instead of Google. With that said, it can be useful to get a feel for what the world in general is looking to know more about by checking out the 2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist. It...