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Here are some good meeting promotion tips from Susan Nowicki on The Forum Effect. Also, check out this article by Dave Lutz for some examples of associations doing it well. Thanks to both for the good ideas!

This post by Jeff Hurt makes me think that I'm one of the few left who go to conferences mainly for the content; it sounds like a lot of people are shifting their decision-making mainly to who they hope to connect with while they're at the event...

I'm probably the last person on the planet to see these street art sculptures made out of plastic bags and subway exhaust, but wow are they cool: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo[/youtube] Thanks for the pointer, T!

Still catching up on the news after my week-long sojourn in Italy, but I couldn't believe that some U.S. government agencies actually have put in place policies that prohibit them from meeting in certain cities. At least some in our government...

Oh great, #1 on the Travel and Leisure list of the 10 worst airports is one I have a four-hour layover in on my way to Toronto in a couple of weeks for ASAE and The Center's annual conference: Newark. ...

It looks like the airlines are planning to cut back on the number of flights offered, and up the price, come fall, according to this Travel Mole article. I see it as a continuation of the trend we've been seeing for the past year or so in many...

Check out the latest meetings-related editorial from Ben Stein, this time from the American Spectator: No Meetings on the Table. ...

Check out this story from Johnnie Moore's thought-provoking post, Change Management and Mistaking Green for Gold: ...

Try one of the models Julius Solaris outlines in this brilliant post on the EventManagerBlog: 10 Alternative Business Models for Events. They may not all work for your purposes, but I'd bet they all get you thinking about what else you can do...

The debate on "free" when it comes to whether or not to charge for repurposing conference content for the Web (for links to the posts that started it all, see What is the cost of free?) got me thinking about a similar discussion that's been raging...