I just ran across an article I wrote for Association Meetings a while back on social, military, educational, religious, and fraternal (SMERF) meetings, and thought this part of it is still pretty funny--and relevant: ...
According to an article on hotel-online, The Fairfield Inn by Marriott is among the hotels that don’t just chuck or auction off the old stuff after a renovation. Instead, they donate them to Habitat for Humanity and other charitable organizations...
Earlier in the week I went into a mini-rant about how hard it is to be a semi-vegetarian in a high-protein, low-carb-crazed meeting world. Then I got to thinking maybe it's just me, and that meetings really aren't going Atkins-friendly. Not, at...
If you ever start feeling that you can't make a difference, keep this quote from Margaret Mead in mind: ...
For some reason, as I sat on the runway at NYC’s LaGuardia airport last night, waiting for a huge line of thunderstorms to move through so we could take off, I got to thinking about the "meetings industry." What exactly is it, and what should it...
Just curious about what people think about this article from MPI's magazine. An online group I'm involved with took great offense to this guy's take on all the dumb questions planners have to field, like, "when's the noon luncheon?" ...
Food for thought from this week's Society for Hospitality Management's training bulletin: ...