Archive for January, 2010
Our Most Demanding Audience
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Meeting professionals, meet your future audience.
Last week, amid the hype and humour that greeted the release of the Apple iPad, some of the most pithy assessments of tablet technology came from a group of keen observers who will probably begin attending conferences in the next 10 to 15 years.
By the time they start arriving in [...]
Social Media Metaphors and the Death of Print
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Editor’s Note: This guest post is excerpted from the “oblogatory blig” produced by Vancouver writer Lynne Melcombe, a former associate and longtime friend of our firm. It flags some of the unexpected twists that knowledge producers—including meeting professionals—can expect to run into on the road to new media and “free” content.
According to Gillian Shaw, writing [...]
Hands Across the Water
Thursday, January 14th, 2010On the meetings circuit, Haiti is not a place that often comes to mind.
The now-devastated capital of Port-au-Prince is just 713 miles by air from Miami, 960 miles from Cancún, but it might as well be a universe away—in its infrastructure, in the opportunities open to its citizens, and in its visibility to people who [...]
Top 10 Reasons to Attend the Sustainable Meetings Conference
Friday, January 8th, 2010With the 2010 Sustainable Meetings Conference coming up in Denver February 9-11, the Green Meeting Industry Council is circulating the top 10 reasons that this is a must-attend event.
This might just be the best, most in-depth green meetings conference the industry has ever seen. But the 10 reasons point to a bigger, wider value proposition [...]