What seems like eons ago, I wrote a little ditty called My Top 10 Reasons to Bolt about the things that would make me grab my stuff and run from a session. This week, after reading Chief Marketer’s survey on what makes a conference worth...

I just found this cool little tool planners can use to help optimize your meeting Web site: www.sitereportcard.com. (Thanks to a MIMlister for the pointer.)

I just received this comment on this post about conference center business being on the rebound...

And she looks like one nasty, nasty witch of a storm. For all those who are in the afflicted areas—including my friend's brother, a local pastor who stayed to help with relief efforts—stay safe and know that our thoughts are with you...

Traditional event organizers should be keeping their eye on this trend, as outlined by Ross Mayfield and expanded on by Ton and Rich at the TSMR blog, among others: The unconference. Ross points out this painful truth...

Do your attendees just amble into the general sessions, grab a seat and wait for the fun to begin? That's the case for most of the meetings I've attended. But why not pay more attention to the "walk in"? Keven Holland at The Association Blog has...

The Boston ASBPE Blog just posted an interesting idea: Training by truck. From the post...

and you'll see a familiar name. Last week, Laura Bly, a USA Today travel writer, interviewed me about tipping and mandatory services charges (she found me through something I wrote in the blogosphere). Since I spoke mostly about meeting trends, I...

ASAE has announced the winner of its iPod Shuffle contest (the winner is the person who commented the most on the XtremeASAE blog was randomly drawn from those who commented on the blog—more comments just improved your chances of winning. Sorry...

I just found GoogleFight, where you can see how two different search terms compare. (Thanks to Tom Asacker for the link.) ...