Interesting article in the LA Times today about Meetings Exchange, or Inmex. Inmex is a new program created by the hospitality labor union Unite Here. The LA Times article says...

Starwood is getting into the social networking thing these days. First, they launched The Lobby blog, and today I hear that they've relaunched Sheraton.com with a feature that lets guests tell their stories about the hotel and the area. They're...

At our franchise meeting this week, one person who's fairly new to our industry kept rolling his eyes as we threw acronym after acronym at him, from PCMA to TIA to ASAE to T&E. But when one of our new media guys asked for an example of...

Check out tradeshow startup man Tim Bourquin's thoughts on speakers and sponsors who don't seem to have much interest in showing up on the show floor. The sponsor who only wanted to cough up for something for the goody bag said to Tim...

Check out this silly quiz to waste a little pre-long weekend Friday afternoon: If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be? Here's mine...

ASAE and the Center has been going blog wild lately. First they launched ...

According to The Donald (Trump, that is), if you organize a convention for teachers, keep the sanitizing hand swipes handy. According to this post on the Trump Blog, teachers have the germiest hands, followed by bankers and accountants. Lawyers...

Meetings consultant/expert/listserv mistress/all-around maven Joan Eisenstodt hates meetings—for all the same reasons I do. She's going to be taking on the latest round on VNU's MiGurus blog this week, talking about how we can make meetings better...

I had all kinds of cool things to mention to you all that I picked up over my trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and vacation sailing in the British Virgin Islands, but I got so relaxed that I forgot them all. Other than that Puerto Rico is a lot more...

If you travel frequently and haven't checked out Flier Talk, you might want to see what people are saying about your most-often-used airlines. It's pretty active and interesting, and even led to a live meeting last summer between frequent posters...