OK, so maybe new slogan isn't going to send people running to Georgia, but at least it's not as bad as some of what the public in New Jersey have come up with. According to USA Today, these include...

Seth Godin says that so many conferences fail to inspire people to change their behavior because, in trying to reach the "average" attendee, they rely on just teaching the facts. Godin says, “Facts don’t change people’s behavior. Emotion...

A lot of marketing folks do, like David Burn and Katharine Stone. The offending slogan? ...

The new AAA Diamond ratings are out. Some facts about the 2006 list...

I just got a note from the blog-hosting service Typepad, where this blog used to live. It sounds like they had a lot of technical difficulties last month. They not only sent out a letter apologizing and outlining what the glitches were, but today...

Some businessmen at the Holiday Inn in Richmond, Indiana, got a little rowdy last week and, somehow, it appears that Oliver, a big stuffed bear the staff dresses up and keeps hanging around in the lobby, did something to annoy them. So they beat...

The Great Ideas conferences, taking a page from this year's ASAE show blog, has launched a blog of its own for this year's events in Orlando, December 4-6 and San Diego, February 26-28. (The conferences are another ASAE and The Center for...

A recent survey found that e-mail, interruptions, and bad meetings are wasting huge amounts of workers time. Well duh. Here's the numbers, from time spent in 2000 to 2004...

What you see isn't always what's really there. Want proof? Check out this very cool optical illusion. Thanks to Jamie Notter for the pointer! I had forgotten about this one.