According to this article from Association Meetings, the American Library Association hooked up with talk TV maven Oprah Winfrey's book club, and almost doubled its membership (read the article for more on how they did it). ...
That was the subject line of an e-mail I got this morning from a reader who said he had just "stumbled across (and was intrigued by) your article My Top 10 Reasons to Bolt." He explained that Tufte is an expert on the display of information (his ...
OK, this one is just kind of fun—a virtual walking tour of France. Just in case you don’t speak French, here’s how it works: Go to this site, click on a city, then on a street. When the virtual street comes up, take a stroll using the navigation...
A friend recently sent me a link to this site on Buddhism. Being the bizarre person that I am, I found not only lots of food for thought, but a quote every meeting planner should take to heart when designing an educational program: "True wisdom is...
A sneak preview from the June issue of CMI (which will be online in a couple of weeks): Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., the presumptive Democratic candidate for president, prefers Comfort Inns, Holiday Inns, and the Hotel Fort Des Moines when criss...
Thanks to the good folks on the MIMlist listserve for reminding me that there truly is an association for just about everything imaginable, such as: ...
I've spoken with a number of planners who are frustrated with their inability to inject what has been proven to have results into their meetings--namely, interactivity, case studies, and multiple formats to fit different meetings needs of the...
In the past, people may have retired happily and spent their golden years playing golf and pruning the petunias, but not us Baby Boomers. As author, columnist, and speaker Jim Carroll points out in an article called The End of Retirement, the...