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From Chief Marketer: Top Ten: Marketing Ideas to Consider in 2008. Some are no-brainers, like green is red hot, but others are a little less obvious. Like using the gaming trend to market your wares (including, possibly, your meetings somehow?)...

The American Bus Association is doing an interesting promotion touting the industry as being "green"—and saving some penguins in the process (click to ABA's home page, then on the penguin headline to download the pdf for the full brochure). I don...

I have no idea, but if you accept credit card payment for registration at your meetings, it'd be a good idea to check out this month's MeCo chat, led by Jim Lewis of Best Meetings Inc. Here's some more info from the e-mail announcement: ...

OK, there are too many good posts on We Have Always Done It that Way, which I'm just catching up on after taking a news reader hiatus. Here are a couple more good ones related to conferences: ...

Now that we're starting (finally) to understand that lectures aren't necessarily the best way to go for educational sessions, some people are confused over how to use the expertise of presenters and still get people participating. Check out Mickie...

Check out this post on We Have Always Done it that Way for one of the best ideas I've heard yet on getting the next generation interested in coming to your association's meeting.

If you want something insanely addictive to do, check out Touch the Bubbles, a game where you have to match sounds being played. It's harder than you'd think, and even harder than that to turn off. ...

Did you know it takes eight glasses of water to wash just one glass? I didn't until I read this article from HotelOnline about how Atlanta hotels are conserving water during the current drought. In addition to only serving water when asked, they...

Sorry to jump the season a bit, but when Patti Shock got herself elfed, I just had to get elfed too (along with my dog Augie, of course). This is too funny!

“Business conventions are useful because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.” - Anonymous Saw this on the FC Experts blog and had to share.