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.
Derren Brown
I just loved mind control master/speaker/artist Derren Brown's strategy for dealing with an irrationally angry person, listed as part of his Guide to Overcoming Awkward Situtations (other meetings-friendly advice contained in "How ...
Even though Up in the Air didn't score big in the Oscars, the road warriors mindset it portrays is one that pretty much every meeting manager can relate to. But when I read this editorial in yesterday's Boston Globe, I thought it might be...
Talk about living the examined life: Nowadays everything we do is being tracked by information-sensing mobile devices, remote-sensing technologies, software logs, cameras, microphones, radio-frequency identification readers, and wireless senso...
We check in for our flight with a credit card at a kiosk. We check in at the meeting's host hotel the same way. We already registered via the Web site and got our badge in the mail, and downloaded the meeting app. It was all very quick, easy...
Scott Steinberg
Today's guest post was written by leadership consultant and speaker Scott Steinberg.
Here are five ways to better connect with audiences and tap into new high-tech event-planning solutions (sometimes quite literally).
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Velvet Chainsaw Consulting's Jeff Hurt poses an interesting question on his Midcourse Corrections blog: Do conferences really have to be so predictable? He talks about his summer camp experience, which was "full of surprise and wow moments," a...