I'm not sure how I feel about Planely, a service I recently read about on TechCrunch that lets people enter their flights into Facebook to find out who else will be on their plane or at their departure or arrival airport at the same time. It...

Love this story about the candy sales (dis?)incentive trip: Since they didn't make their numbers, they got to go to Fargo, N.D., instead of Honolulu. ...

If you're a meeting professional who's working on your own, you might want to check out what I think is a pretty cool community for solopreneurs. It's for independents in all walks of life, not just meetings, but there's a wealth of information...

Yep, the US News and World Report made it official when it included meeting planning among its list of hot jobs for 2011. ...

Because "If there's no fixed point of reference, we just walk in circles and inevitably get lost." [Gizmodo] Here's the science. Another beaut from Gizmodo today is this video of the "intricate choreography of flight -- it's just mesmerizing.

That's what this post on Ragan.com asks, and from the comments, it sounds like the majority say it is. I can see it being rude if people are just checking e-mail or shopping on eBay or whatever, but really, live-tweeting about a session is...

Julius Solaris gives us a peek into one of the coolest ideas I've heard about in a while in this post: The Best Way to Integrate Facebook to Your Event: RFID. As he says, "Long story short, Coca Cola used RFID in their Coca Cola Village to let...

It just keeps coming, and I can't stop myself from reading/watching/being bemused by all the anti-TSA bits floating around. I started to put together some of my favorites, then ran across two people who have already done an infinitely more...

If you need any more reasons to make sure you're providing adequate bandwidth for your attendees, here they come. According to a study conducted by StudyLogic for Sheraton, a full 60 percent of the 4,204 people surveyed in the U.S., U.K., and...

Do you take the jet-laggedness (I know, not a word) of your meeting's attendees into account when you're scheduling sessions? If not, you should be. Not just to be nice and considerate of those who come from other time zones, but also to maximize...