Off topic: Words of wisdom

Aug 22, 2008

I ran across this today on another forum and wanted to share. Even if it has nothing to do with meetings, it has a lot to do with being human: ...

Aug 21, 2008

Here's an interesting study (download from link) from the National Business Travel Association that compares lodging, rental car, and meal taxes in the top 50 U.S. cities. When you compare hotel, car, and meal taxes over a one-day period, the...

ASAE: Closing session

Aug 20, 2008

I have to say I'm with Kevin on Rene Mauborgne’s keynote about Blue Ocean Strategy. I know it's been around for a while now, but there's a lot we all can learn from little success stories like Nintendo's Wii. Instead we had a lot of what Kevin...

ASAE Day 3: How online gaming will affect the future of associations

Aug 20, 2008

I can't say enough good things about this session, either. Susan Fox, VP, The Forbes Group, who seemed like a mild-mannered academic until she showed us her World of Warcraft avatar, explained how we digital immigrants differ from the digital...

ASAE Day 3: Get record attendance for your event

Aug 20, 2008

This was the money session for me, the one that made it all worth while. If you haven't had the chance to see Ron Rosenberg of QualityTalk Inc. in action, do try. He is one fantastic presenter. I mean, not only did he keep me awake (no small feat...

ASAE Day 2: Marketing session

Aug 20, 2008

I had to miss the morning learning labs to go to the press conference (I'll try to hit some highlights of that in another post), but I did get to one in the afternoon that was not bad. I didn't learn anything earth-shattering, but it was a good...

Must-read post on why one guy is thinking about quitting the trade show biz

Aug 20, 2008

The post is called "5 Reasons Why I’m Thinking About Quitting The Tradeshow Business," and my guess is that you'll be able to commiserate with Tim on all five: ...

ASAE: Catch the t's

Aug 20, 2008

I didn't go schwagging at the ASAE and The Center's expo, but I ran into lots of people laden with bags and bags of stuff. Sure, there were lots of other goodies, but stuffed animals and t-shirts seemed to be the biggest thing this year. Of the ts...

Free time in San Diego

Aug 19, 2008

I had pretty much no free time while in town, other than Monday night (I was kind of priced out of the big Food and Wine Classic, held on the USS Midway. I heard so many good things about this that I wish I had coughed up the dough to attend after...

ASAE: Nice touch

Aug 19, 2008

I forgot to mention one thing I really liked in the opening session on Sunday was a video montage they did. Looks like they visited a bunch of member associations and taped them doing a dance, a la "Where the H*** is Matt" (see below if you...