The addition of a new Monarch habitat is bringing lots of the butterflies to the hotel's grounds. Thanks to an alert PR person who knows I eat this stuff up, I just found out that the Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort and Conference Center—wh...

Call it "bizcation" or call it "bleisure"—can someone come up with a better name for this trend please?—tacking a few days onto a business trip to explore the locale is one way to make work travel more tolerable, and even fun. Here's an infograph...

Here are some fun articles and other stuff I've been collecting, totally off the topic of meeting planning, but hey, we all need to take a break now and then! • Fellow middle children, let us celebrate our birth order with this article from Le...

We all know that restaurants are masters when it comes to using psychology to draw us in, influence our food choices, persuade us to tip more, and feel more satisfied with our experience. I was reading a great Quora query on just this topic, and ...

At this year’s American Society for Association Executives Annual Conference and Exhibition in Detroit, I was again reminded of the incredibly cool people who hang out in the association space. They may not all be meetings professionals—in fact...

What do you think, will we be traveling to meetings via jet pack by 2040? (Image: Thinkstock by Getty Images)I recently read a Fast Company article about how the rise of the freelance economy, and the fall of traditional jobs and companies, will ...

KiKi L’Italien, Amplified Growth, and Scott Oser, Scott Oser Associates, outside their session room at ASAEMeeting planners tend to be busy people. Make that very busy—but are you busier than you need to be? If so, the American Societ...

Heads up! Association planners should keep their eyes—and their contracts—on potentially disruptive developments that could put their meetings' viability at risk. Photo: Thinkstock by Getty ImagesWith associations typicall...

This couldn't be any more off the topic of meeting and event planning, but I keep running across these links that are cracking me up. Like this one: Things that look like Donald Trump—Whatever you think of him as a presidential candidate, the ...

Researcher, professor, author, and psychologist Sherry Turkle at the ASAE closing general session. Photo by Jason KeenMy reaction to psychologist and researcher Sherry Turkle’s closing ASAE general session speech—in which she called mobile techno...