I'd give a lot to be able to go to the Machine Project Benefit. To be held at a faux Department of Motor Vehicles, this "evening of unbridled confusion" features "car horn fanfare; competitive sobriety tests; workshops on breaking into and hot...

I just ran across Google SketchUp, a 3D modeling tool you can download for free and use to create 3D images. Is anyone using this to design their meeting and/or expo space? It sounds like it would be pretty handy.

If you've ever struggled over when, how, and if you should charge for your content, Dan Loomis has put together another really useful post on the Big Ideas blog outlining how you don't need to pick just one way of pricing content for, in the case...

Maddie Grant thinks they are, and she makes a good argument that, when slapped onto a specific situation without tweaking to make it fit, they could easily cause some evil things to happen. But is that the fault of the best practice? Or is it more...

Remember the infamous kerfuffle over $16 muffins that happened when the Office of the Inspector General said the Department of Justice was overspending on its conferences. Quickly dubbed "Muffingate," some deemed that, even though in reality the ...

Liz on the Biz, aka the brilliant Liz Zielinski, CMM, asks an interesting question: In the Battle of Tactics vs. Strategy, Which Wins? She then goes on to explain the roles of mission, strategy, and tactics in a very clear, clean, and concise way...

I'm downloading this one now: Jets, the travel app that fills you in on where the best seats are on your flight (and the worst). Kind of like SeatGuru for your iPhone.

Reading this CNN article on how different types of people (on both the meeting leader and attendee sides) can derail a small meeting reminded me of what I think was the very first article I wrote for the MeetingsNet magazines: How to Keep Your...

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Dan Loomis at the Great Ideas blog takes on the controversial issue of whether an association's online content should be for free or for a fee (remember the big debate when MPI decided to charge for the online versions of its conference sessions a...