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Even Mango is sick of being up to her neck in the white stuff.I rejoiced this morning when I looked at the thermometer and saw it was 24 degrees out—heat wave! Then I looked again and it was actually 2.4 degrees. Sigh. It takes me longer to don m...

One of the many reasons I love the good folks at the Meetings Community (aka MeCo) listserv is the way they freely share information and resources. Here are a couple of online space calculators they shared recently that can help you figure out wh...

Everyone wants to wow attendees with a cool reception or other special event at their conference, but what do people really want? Interactivity, cocktails, and food top the list, according to this cool infographic from Kapow Events. It also cover...

Everyone wants ubiquitous, free Wi-Fi in their meeting headquarters hotel, but sometimes it can be harder to find than Waldo. That's why I found this worldwide hotel Wi-Fi infographic from Tourism Review so fascinating—it details which countries'...

This list of the 12 Most Interesting Food Trends of 2015 by Greg Morado in the Houston Times is just so, well, interesting. I was expecting the usual trends, like  locally sourced ingredients and s'mores bars—don't get me wrong, I love me some s'...

I get that they’re for-profit companies, but with fees proliferating like proverbial bunnies and tone-deaf airline execs making comments about putting profits over the traveling public, I can’t help but wonder if those who are calling airlines th...

This morning our new daily e-newsletter (what, you haven't yet signed up for it! You can do so here) linked to a Condé Nast Traveler slideshow about some of the truly outrageous and weird requests some hoteliers have come across. How weird, you a...

Image by Xesai/Thinkstock by Getty ImagesWe all know we learn better when our emotions are engaged—when we connect emotionally with something, we can’t help but pay more attention to it. It also has a better chance of finding its way into our lon...

Andrew Taffin, CEO of Tallen Technology RentalsToday’s guest post is by Andrew Taffin, CEO of Tallen Technology Rentals When it comes to planning events in venues that require union labor, it’s imperative to work with an AV technology vendor tha...