Editorial: Lessons from the MIM Summit

Is technology going to end up supplanting the face-to-face meeting business, as so many pundits have mournfully intoned? Not if you take the MIMlist as an example. This online community of 3,000-plus meeting planners, industry consultants, lawyers, and suppliers of all stripes generates hundreds of e-mails daily about everything from good restaurants in Dallas to sticky speaker situations and attrition-busting advice. What started strictly online quickly spawned numerous face-to-face meetings