This article from Meeting Professionals International is a good look at how the Sarbannes-Oxley legislation is affecting the meetings business. Just think: You have to justify fam trips and site inspections, in writing; relationships that used to...

According to this article from hotelbusiness.com, union workers are planning to escalate their actions in the ongoing battle between Unite Here members and 14 San Francisco hotels by holding a picket this afternoon outside the Westin St. Francis...

Leapfrog Innovations' latest e-newsletter had an interesting idea for improving team meetings. After the meeting, have everyone write down where they think the meeting fell on a scale of "mighty motivating" to "miserable." Collect the cards, put...

According to a new report conducted by the Travel Industry Association of America, the National Business Travel Association, and the Institute of Business Travel Management, the top 25 cities for conventions, conferences, and seminars are (drum...

Is there anything they won't sell on eBay? Apparently not--this little item is an invitation to bid on having the naming rights for Boston's FleetCenter for a day. So far, it's up to almost $6,800, and there's still several days to go. ...

information touchpoint: Any contact in which information is shared or transferred. Yes, meetings are information touchpoints.
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Like many in this industry, I was curious to know the identity of the mysterious event planner "Darren" who, while the team who hired him didn't win, still helped to save their bacon for a measly $47k. Enterprising reporters at BizBash.com today...

My colleague Sue Hatch has an infinitely better writeup than I wrote earlier of the soon-to-be-launched meetings-only Internet radio station. See it in this week's MeetingsNet Extra, our e-newsletter. Also, this morning I heard that “Association...

A hotel boots a religious meeting because of potential protests. After the group held a meeting there the previous year with no apparant problems (otherwise, why would they be coming back? And why would the hotel have accepted the program to begin...

Docs and medical students in Africa often don't have access to the information they need to do their jobs. You can help by donating your old PDAs. Here's how. ...