E-venting has a great post about the various different types of blogs people are doing to support their meetings. For our Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum in March, I plan to do kind of a hybrid of all four types that he mentions—on-the-scene...

The ways people connect through blogs continue to amaze me. This morning I got an e-mail from someone who's contemplating moving to Groton, Mass., the town I live in. She found me through a blog search engine (like this one), and asked if I could...

Even though he's talking about corporate communities, this post by Guy Kawasaki also is a must-read for associations. Read it, then ask yourself if your meeting is building community, or taking away from the community you'd like to have around...

What, you thought they went away? No such luck. Check out this article in Smart Money, which outlines just what you—and your attendees— may end up paying above and beyond the room rate. This one I hadn't heard of before: "Room service now carries...

Ben at the Certified Association Executive wants to retire some tired old meetings terms and replace them with new ones. His suggestions...

This article from Fast Company explains what millennials—the latest generation to join the workforce—want in their jobs, and gives some ideas on how different generations can coexist peacefully in the office. Like it or not, my fellow boomers and...

I'm not a big poker person, but given the amount of poker-related spam I've been getting lately, there must be a lot of people who are. If your attendees are among them, this might be of interest to you: World Poker Tour Launches 'Events' Division...

The latest Market Metrix Hospitality Index for Q4 2005 had one really big irony: Independence Air, which placed as the best airline in terms of customer satisfaction, went under last month after just a year and a half of operation. Being good just...