Did you know that you're more likely to be killed in Caracas, Venezuela, than in Baghdad? I didn't, before I read this article in USA Today. For planners with meetings in destinations that may have a less-than-stellar rep that isn't deserved, get...
Here's a great story about how Boston is training formerly homeless people to fill entry-level jobs in hotels. From the article...
Granted, we didn't get very many responses to this poll on how organizations reward their meetings professionals, but what results we did get I found a tad depressing. Thirty-three percent said their organization doesn't reward meetings...
Worms are a wonderful thing, as South Africa's Mount Nelson hotel has discovered. The hotel has added a worm farm where the wrigglers eat up the organic waste from the kitchen, resulting in a lovely "worm tea" that it uses to fertilize the h...
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Some people say that live meetings are going to go the way of the Dodo bird, but not at the U.S. Department of Defense. "The Pentagon sent 36,000 military and civil service employees to 6,600 conferences worldwide last year at an average cost of ...
I just saw an interesting post on the Soflow Creative Forum (subscription req'd) that made me think. The poster posited...
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia build, edited, and updated by pretty much anyone who wants to be involved, held its ...
