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Did you know that April 14 is Equal Pay Day—the day that women have to work into the new year to earn what men earned last year? That’s three and a half months, people! While the exact size of the gender salary gap varies depending on a lot of di...
Tripp and Tyler, the guys who brought you the Conference Call in Real Life, are at it again, this time playing out what it would be like if people acted in real life the way they do on e-mail. It is almost as hilarious as their first video, and t...
Buskers everywhere, leave your guitar cases and don a TSA uniform if you want to collect the big bucks! Of course, you wouldn't get to keep it, but the $674,841.06 in spare change travelers left behind at security checkpoints last year is nothing...
I just got an e-mail from someone who said the whole #boothlove hashtag idea was making her nuts because it is a misuse of the word "booth." According to the Convention Industry Council's APEX Industry Glossary, a booth is "Specific exhibit displ...
Orly Sorokina’s thought-provoking post on the Hootsuite blog, 3 Marketing Lessons from Internet Easter Eggs, in fact did get me thinking that these inside jokes and hidden gems could be a really fun way to get potential attendees engaged with you...
I was reading David Dubois' excellent IdeaXchange post on the #boothlove hashtag, which I hadn't heard about before, and a colleague commented, "Because it's all about that booth, 'bout that booth," to be sung to the tune of Meghan Trainor's...
I had some fun putting this together last night—is there anything I should add to it about Millennials, travel, and meetings? They are so going to change things up in the very near future, if they aren't already.
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Meeting planners surveyed for a report by Marketing Challenges International said 2014 was a good year for association meetings held outside of North America, and they're optimistic about the remainder of 2015 as well. Europe and Asia are still ...
Oh this is just too fun—go to Google Maps, zoom into your meeting's host city (or wherever else you like), click the Pac-Man icon on the lower left corner of the screen, and start playing! Just use your arrow keys to navigate around the streets w...
J Ocana, Reaction Audio VisualToday's guest post is by J Ocana, who is president, COO, and one of the founders of Reaction Audio Visual, an international event technology production company.
Some meeting professionals bemoan the fact that thei...