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Sunday, August 10th, 2008AT THE MPI CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS—A meeting planner friend used to tell the story of the moment her former boss began to take her seriously.
For years, he’d fallen into the habit of scheduling half-hour meetings to talk about the logistics for an upcoming conference, starting the meeting 10 minutes late, then interrupting 10 minutes [...]
A (Meetings) World Without Oil
Friday, August 8th, 2008Last February our professional association, Meeting Professionals International (MPI), attached the title MeetDifferent to its annual North American Professional Education Conference.
The intent was to bring together ideas and strategies that would suggest smart new ways of organizing and supplying conferences. For me, one of the highlights was a long conversation with the “serious game” [...]
Content Keeps Meetings Afloat
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Higher air fares, fewer flights, and rising supply costs are the new reality for conferences around the world.
Live meetings will survive the crunch because there is still no more effective way for people to share ideas, knowledge, and solutions. But the future could hold
Fewer live meetings
Regional and local meetings filling the gaps between less frequent [...]
When Blogs Have No Purpose?
Friday, August 1st, 2008The client is always right.
So when a meeting organizer told me firmly that she saw no purpose in a post-conference blog, I stopped to listen.
Our team has spent a good part of the past year showing how social media can extend the life and breadth of a conference, while the cornerstone content of a conference [...]