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deja moo: The distinct feeling that you've heard this bull before.

Been there, done that, had to share. Courtesy of Buzzwhack.com.

The unnamed association executive who writes the View from the Corner Office blog has an interesting post about a recent board meeting that managed to change the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mindset that plagues so many association boards...

John Hendrie makes a great point in this editorial from hotel-online.com as he talks about how all the flowery verbiage in most hospitality promotions may not be doing anyone a favor: "We should have asterisks after all our promotional material...

If you're wondering what's going on with international travel, check out this item in this week's edition of MeetingsNet Extra: New Passport Rules May Create Attendee Challenges. ...

Tim Bourquin, founder and president of TNC New Media, has started up a blog called, appropriately enough, Tradeshow Startup. ...

It sounds like a session at the Affordable Meetings Mid-America conference held in Chicago by Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International tackled the attrition issue, according to this article on hotelinteractive.com. While more...

According to a column by Charles Allen in TradeShowBlues, not necessarily. He offers 13 things to think about should you find yourself in that enviable position--well worth a read for all trade show managers, whether you agree with him or not.

According to an article in Wired, there's now such a thing as Social Networking in Fur, or SNIF. The "project is a wearable computer system for dogs that allows their owners to monitor the animals' behavior and capture their social networks." ...

Seth Godin once again has given my brain a shake this morning, and it's now thinking in a whole new way. His suggestion is to find out what the "always" is--i.e., "toothpaste always comes in a squeezable tube. Business travelers always use a...

Steve Miller also has chimed in on the brouhaha over Brookings, which I posted about earlier. More to the point, he touches on something that we all should be thinking about: ...