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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.

Highlights

May 07, 2004

If you’re of a certain age and musical bent, you’ll recognize this as the garbled version everyone sang of Jimi Hendrix’s song Purple...

Top 10 signs your child may turn out to be a meeting planner

May 07, 2004

We published this one in our e-newsletter, MeetingsNet Extra, a while back, but it's still funny, I think! ...

More security measures at the airport

May 07, 2004

Worried that terrorists might dress up like airline and airport workers to get access to our planes, the...

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Video may have killed the radio star

May 06, 2004

but will meeting technology kill meeting industry associations? That’s the question tech guru Corbin Ball raises in an ...

You get what you pay for

May 06, 2004

Here’s another spin on the attrition gig—remind people that they’ll get what they pay for if they reserve their room through third-party sites like Expedia and Orbitz. And what they’ll get, according to a study by D.K. Shifflet & Associates...

Int’l attendees, stay home?

May 05, 2004

The National Business Travel Association has released a white paper on the overall impact of CAPPS II and security-related privacy issues on travel. Some of the conclusions: ...

FYI on the FBI and airlines

May 05, 2004

Accordiing to Saturday’s New York Times, the release of airline passenger data in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks airlines including American, United and Northwest gave the FBI millions of records on their customers. ...

Anyone for some ants on a log?

May 05, 2004

Ever hold a family program only to watch in horror as the kids refuse to eat anything but fat-laden macaroni and cheese, hot...