It's one of the most ironic things about being a meeting planner: The better you do your job, the less people even know that there's a job you do. But what you're really doing is what Kathy Sierra talks about in this post. You're getting out of...

After watching this short video about what the iPod package would look like if Microsoft had designed it, and after a discussion at yesterday's editorial meeting about the brochure for our upcoming Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, I'm trying...

Mike May over at E-Venting has a couple of interesting projects in the works that other event managers might want to take heed of: An interactive speaker site (where speakers/agencies/PR people can update speaker information) and an interactive...

Here's some good advice on keeping a board meeting on track, from Guy Kawasaki.

Now it's not just hotels that want to charge an extra fee for everything from just opening the door to the minibar to in-room safes: According to Reuters, Northwest has announced that it will start charging for aisle and emergency row seats...

There's an excellent story in the New York Times about all the various sites and blogs that provide travel reviews, mostly from people like you and me instead of professional reviewers. Some of the sites it recommends are...

People often say their best learning experiences don't come in breakouts or general sessions, but instead from the casual get-togethers in the hallways and lobbies. Stowe Boyd, in reference to one of these sessions at the ETech conference that he...

It looks like the U.S. is going ahead with the plans to embed RFID chips with biometric info on passports, despite lingering concerns about security and privacy. From the Financial Times...

Giftcertificates.com is running a contest called "Admins to the Rescue," and is soliciting stories of great saves done by admins. If you have a great story about how an admin saved the day, and can put it down in 150 words or so, why not give it a...

I love Itzy Sabo's E-mail Overload, a blog full of hints on how to manage your in-box more effectively, plus everything e-mailicious you can think of. Like the Microsoft VIBE team's StepU, an application that you control using a dance pad instead...