I just read a quote from Stuart Reid on Johnnie Moore’s fantastic facilitator blog about how, in improv, there’s a “big difference between a) going into a scene thinking I’ll be the funny one in this scene and b) going into the scene deciding ...

Today's guest post is from MeetingsNet's contributing editor Regina Baraban, who is doing the tough job of checking out the meetings scoop in Santa Fe. Here's what she's finding: Santa Fe's convention center interiors reflect the local Southw...

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Shimon Avish is the, founder of strategic meetings management consultancy Shimon Avish Consulting LLCToday's guest post is by Shimon Avish, founder of Shimon Avish Consulting LLC, a strategic meetings management consultancy.  According to...

Another really cool session I went to during MPI's WEC13 also took on experience design, but in a totally different way. Troy Halsey, author of The Freelancer's Guide to Corporate Event Design, which I must remember to buy, led what was probab...

Now that I've almost recuperated from my red-eye/long layover/drank too much coffee and couldn't nap/up for 40 hours return from MPI's WEC13, it's time to catch up on some of the blogging I had hoped to do while on site but due to seriously in...

Lain Hensley, who co-founded Odyssey Teams (you know, the Life Cycles team-building folks), blew me away in his 15-minute Flashpoint session yesterday. Some of my biggest takeaways/favorite quotes: Lain Hensley, Odysey Teams, leading a He...

When playright Margaret Edson rocked my world at this year's Alliance for Continuing Education in the Healthcare Professions, I sincerely doubted anyone could move me like that again in a conference session. I was wrong. Though she couldn'...

From the '80s hair-band rock-and-roll opening reception at the Venetian featuring lots of faux-hawks, glitter, air guitars, and Billy Idol, to the opening general session that literally drummed some lessons into attendees, MPI's World Educatio...