What do you think, will we be traveling to meetings via jet pack by 2040? (Image: Thinkstock by Getty Images)I recently read a Fast Company article about how the rise of the freelance economy, and the fall of traditional jobs and companies, will ...
KiKi LâItalien, Amplified Growth, and Scott Oser, Scott Oser Associates, outside their session room at ASAEMeeting planners tend to be busy people. Make that very busy—but are you busier than you need to be? If so, the American Societ...
One of the many joys of summer is escaping the everyday world, which for many means finding time to dig into a good book or two, whether on the beach or on the commuter rail on the way to work. Here's what some folks in the meetings world are...
Researcher, professor, author, and psychologist Sherry Turkle at the ASAE closing general session. Photo by Jason KeenMy reaction to psychologist and researcher Sherry Turkle’s closing ASAE general session speech—in which she called mobile techno...
Executives want you to make sense of the facts, not just deliver a data dump.Meeting professionals need to make recommendations to their organizations on a range of topics—from venues to technology to sponsorship sales to adult education strategi...
Sunrises and sunsets were pretty spectacular in Detroit. This one is over the river at the final evening celebration at Hart Plaza.In my experience, few good things start out with getting up at 4 a.m. and, sure enough, my trip to Detroit for the ...
Meeting Professionals International welcomed some 2,500 attendees to its World Education Congress in San Francisco August 1–4. Headquartered at Moscone Place West, the annual meeting of the association of 18,500 meeting professionals...
Yup, I do these, too.I’m really excited to be heading to Detroit for the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting and Expo on Saturday. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve been to that conference, and I’m looking forward to co...