Check out this mid-1960s Braniff ad about the future of air travel. I'm not sure which I find scarier, the line: "You don't have to carry a passport, because a computer already knows more about you than you do," or those weird egg-like seats. I...

We all know that some things just ooze ego, and we like to use those things at meetings to make attendees feel important. It's kind of like that ad for Volkswagen where people in various types of cars shout things like, "because my daddy never...

Here's a great resource for planners of meetings for people with disabilities (which is just about everyone, I'd guess), brought to you by the Treasury Board of Canada. Thanks to the MiForum listserv for the pointer.

There's a new kid in town when it comes to finding the lowest airfares. Called Farecast, it finds cheap fares between specific cities, but the really cool part is that it also can tell you whether you should buy now, or hold off a bit because the...

While Hurricane Ernesto turned out not to be too big a deal for Florida, climatalogically speaking, it sounds like it did score a direct hit with some meetings scheduled for that state. According to the Miami Herald, the National Association of...

Well, yeah. In fact, if you haven't dipped into blogs, podcasts, wikis, and all the other tools out there to market your events, the time is yesterday to get started. Really. Check out this article from Chief Marketer for some examples of how...

With all the Internet hype, and bracketed by real-life plane diversions of unprecidented numbers lately, I figured Snakes on a Plane would be at best, well, uncomfortable, if not uncomfortably bad. Did I mention I'm not too wild about snakes, and...

At least, those who are doing something interesting with social media (blogs, wikis, podcasts, and beyond). Jeff De Cagna's Association Community Blogs and Podcasts Wiki, which I couldn't find when I posted about it earlier, is up and running...

On the MiForum listserv, there's been much talk today about how people tell time (probably as a way to waste time, this being Friday and all). Since I'm always curious about things like this, I had to set up a poll...

I read this today in an e-mail from Patricia Digh, author of several books and the thought-provoking, fabulous 37 Days blog, and it occurred to me that if we all did this, the world would be a very different place...