I'm in town for the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education annual conference, and this place is rocking. Well, it's always rocking, but add the Saints win on top of a growing Mardi Gras fever and the energy is amazing. Saints flags are flying...

Royal Caribbean is taking a lot of heat over its decision to continue to bring passengers to its private beach at Labadee, about 100 miles up the coast from earthquake-shattered Port-au-Prince. Never mind that it donated a million bucks to the...

We all want people to be fully engaged in every moment of a live meeting or conference, but what can we reasonably expect of people going to a virtual event? That's the question Steve Gogolak tackles in this post on A Wider Net. I was surprised to...

Gotta love Chris Elliott for this one: Hotel fees that must die — and how to kill them. (I'm particularly fond of the "furniture fee." Hadn't thought of it in quite those terms before.) Read to the end for the most outrageous fee. I'm just waiting...

Jeff's at it again over at Midcourse corrections, putting out yet another great post. This one is his top 10 myths about adult learning at conferences. Commenters have added a few more; it's starting to remind me of something I wrote ages ago: My...

We all want 'em, we all need 'em: Here's one planner's top 10 cost-cutting tips. For a boatload more, check out our budget-buster special section. I also went to a good session on cost-cutting (one of those roundtable/brainstorming ones) that I...

Remember last spring when Starwood Hotels accused Hilton of corporate espionage when two ex-Starwood executives Hilton hired allegedly used confidential Starwood information on Hilton's behalf? The plot just thickened: Starwood: Hilton CEO...

When I read this article in today's Boston Globe, I couldn't help but wonder if this may in fact be where associations are -- or perhaps should be? -- headed: The End of the Office and the Future of Work. The basic premise is that we're moving...

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and I do love face-to-face meetings, one thing I'm not wild about is the opportunity to pick up germs from around the country, even around the world. I was so careful to wash my hands at every possible occasion while at PCMA this week, but I knew...