Jamie Notter is so smart—he really gets it when it comes to what makes change happen. And it's not "change management" (which, as he rightly observes, usually is more "change enforcement"), where management proclaims from on high that it has...

Amazing to read about what New Orleans hotels are going through right now to accommodate FEMA personnel and others—it looks like your regular tourist and conventioneer market is gone for the near future, at any rate...

Now that the 3,000 or so Katrina evacuees have left the Austin Convention Center, the Solid Waste Association of North Americais planning to hold their annual conference at the center, as previously scheduled at the end of September, according to...

Don't miss out on this most special day of the year: Talk Like a Pirate Day! You can inventory your pirate tendencies (just call me The Cap'n and hand me a bucket of chum), wear a parrot on your shoulder, or just say "arrrrr" a lot. So release...

From a press release...

Still playing catch-up on all the stuff I've been hoarding since my Hartford trip. Here's one: The Closed Hotel Count in Louisiana is 160 Hotels, in Mississippi, 93 Hotels and in Alabama, 33 Hotels as of September 15, 2005...

Not surprisingly, Chicago is snapping up some choice dislocated meetings, including the 28,000-attendee American Academy for Orthopedic Surgeons annual conference, and the 4,500-person Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting. In a nice move, Chicago...

If you’ve never done a fam in your home town, I highly recommend it. Last week I spent a couple of days in Hartford, Conn., and it was an eye-opener (I grew up in West Hartford, a close-in suburb). I had taken art classes at the Wadsworth...

I just finished reading this article in the Washington Post about what went on in the New Orleans convention center the days following the hurricane (free registration req'd). I have no words.

From the Sonesta New Orleans site...