Farewell Rick Redfern: A Revolution in Search of a Cash Flow
What would you do if Twitter stopped tweeting and YouTube suddenly went off the air? Particularly if you lived in a community where television outlets were consolidating, radio stations had cut local programming, and the venerable daily newspaper was on the verge of shutting down? No doubt, with Internet access and decent search skills, you [...]
The Green Meetings Portal Goes Live
The Green Meetings Portal went live earlier this week. Earlier this year, we announced that The Conference Publishers was joining with the Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC) to launch the world’s first conference content portal. I’m tremendously pleased and proud to announce that the promise is now, finally, a reality. The Portal begins life with [...]
A Couple of Million Jobs at Stake
BREAKING NEWS: On March 10, The Huffington Post published my blog item on the meetings industry crisis and the Kerry bill now before the U.S. Congress. The central argument, drawing on data from MPI Foundation Canada’s study of the economic impact of meetings and events, was that the attack on meetings in the U.S. could [...]
Opinion, Reporting, or All of the Above?
There’s an interesting discussion brewing over at Sound Connections, the online home of The Conference Publishers’ intrepid podcast consultant Mark Blevis. Wherever you come down in the debate between evidence-based reporting and the power of large, unmoderated groups to moderate their own content, it’s an important dialogue. And it’s fascinating that it’s happening. Mark got [...]
When Blogs Have No Purpose?
The 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 [...]
