The face2face MeetingsNet blog is an eclectic mix of news about meetings and events, hospitality, and business travel, along with helpful hints and the occasional rant.
And what meeting planner isn't? Check out this manifesto on Change This. Called Mind of the Innovator: Taming the Traps of Traditional Thinking, author Matthew May backs up what he's talking about with examples. One that took me aback was an...
Here's the latest entry into the association blog world: PCMA's Membership Blog. While not too much is going on there yet (it's just a week old), I like its style.
[This] would be a great final link to add to a registration confirmation: â€Let us know if you see a way we could have made your registration process simpler. All ideas implemented will be given a $___ discount toward the meeting of your choice.â...
So I'm on a Web site that's selling something I most likely want to buy for my magazine, but it won't let me. There is no way to find out prices, much less place an order. There is a number to call, but it just put me into an automated system that...
This is fairly brilliant, and a good example of how an association can slice and dice its membership to come up with new ways to enhance their community: Dog lovers wine club, offered by the *Humane Society. HSUS members are de facto dog lovers...
I caught a couple of interesting headlines on Patti Shock's blog: Delta Calls In Todd and Rande To Spruce Up Airline Food and Drink; and The New Mile High Club: Forget the Hotel Room...
Another great nugget in today's RSS feeds: Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down from Wired magazine. The goal is twenty slides, 20 seconds per slide. It'd make those internal meetings fly, that's for sure, though...
Cindy Butts is at it again: Check out her 11 Ways to Use Zoomerang--and 14 Tips. Pure gold, and I would say applicable to other online surveying tools as well (I'm partial to Survey Monkey, but that's probably just because I like the name...