Congratulations to Joan Eisenstodt, meetings industry guru and listmistress of the MiForum listserv, for being named as meeting partner of the year by the National Speakers Association. From the press release...
I got an e-mail promotion yesterday for a "whine tour"—nice and big in the subject line. It may not be as fun as a wine tour, but it sure gave me a giggle, and another reason to remind folks to proof everything at least twice (and have someone...
According to the Houston Chronicle, no one stopped a guy with bomb components from boarding a plane in Houston—and now the local police and TSA are busy pointing the finger of fault at each other instead of figuring out how to keep this from...
David McCann wrote an interesting post on MISoapbox about MPI's recent focus on return on investment, and whether or not that focus is setting planners up to fail (he thinks it is—read his post for arguments as to why he thinks this might be). I...
Many associations find that their highly targeted, brilliantly crafted, permission-given e-mail marketing messages aren't making it to their members. Instead, they get stuck in the spam filters so many of us have come to rely on. Here's a tool...
There's a new book out called Travia: The Ultimate Book of Travel Trivia, that sounds pretty fun. Did you know that the word â€travel†can be traced back to ...
A lot of times, groups need to do a little something to get the juices flowing before a brainstorming meeting. While I haven't had the pleasure of doing too many innovation/creativity exercises in meetings (though I'd love to), here are a few I...
If you're like me, you spend an awful lot of time Googling things. I just this morning heard of another search engine that lets you do something good as a result of your searches. Called GoodSearch.com, which will donate a penny per search to...