If you're looking for some free legal advice on contracts, negotiations, or anything else related to meeting planning, here are a couple of good resources...

Ever notice how your gut reaction to something changes once you're asked to explain why you felt that way? You're not alone—your attendees probably are doing the same thing, which means those focus groups and evaluations may not be as reliable a...

Especially animal metaphors. Check out this article from Smithsonian magazine. Here's a snip...

This used to come up a lot on a meetings industry listserv I used to belong to: How to hold a silent auction. This is the best resource I've found, though, since it's by fisheries.org, you may want to ignore the part where they say the categories...