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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009By now, they’re a familiar sight: hybrid vehicles that combine two separate power sources to squeeze maximum energy out of every drop of gasoline they use. Once considered an environmentalist’s fantasy, hybrids have made it into the mainstream, and for good reason—they’re a great, practical way to make your gas dollar stretch further, at a [...]
Can a Value-Add be Free?
Saturday, July 11th, 2009Recently a lot fingers have been doing a lot of typing regarding the Virtual Access Pass as proposed by Meeting Professionals International (MPI) for the upcoming World Education Congress (WEC). The dedication and earnest concern of the various bloggers should be commended, for this debate about using the Internet to extend the reach of conferences [...]
The Tempest Over MPI’s Virtual Access Pass
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009There’s quite a tempest brewing over the Virtual Access Pass that our professional association, Meeting Professionals International (MPI), has introduced for its 2009 World Education Congress (WEC), which gets under way this weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The conversation is an echo of a wider debate about when it’s legitimate—or whether it’s ever legitimate—to charge [...]
Why I Consider My Golf Club an Essential Business Tool
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Call it an age thing.
I realized the other day that I spend an inordinate amount of time playing golf, or attending golf tournaments, or talking about golf, or organizing my own golf tournament just so I can play golf. And I don’t even golf all that well!
But when I look around at a [...]
Farewell Rick Redfern: A Revolution in Search of a Cash Flow
Monday, May 25th, 2009What 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 would still [...]
A Virtual (R)Evolution-Part 2
Monday, November 24th, 2008Part 2: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
There’s a tremendous opportunity brewing for meeting professionals and the organizations they serve. Some parts of it trace back to recent U.S. election campaigns that have become a proving ground for an unprecedented mix of live and online learning, persuasion, and mobilization.
It’ll be a while before we [...]
Leveraging Information
Monday, October 6th, 2008Much to the dismay of my significant other, I spent two hours on the phone yesterday with another woman—and the conversation was really good.
Okay, okay, it wasn’t like that. I had a really interesting discussion with a market analyst from the Detroit area who had some pleasantly pointed things to say about knowledge transfer, the [...]
Dinosaur Economics
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008The power of the Internet is partly about the unexpected connections that help people share knowledge and build community, often in ways that make services more affordable and environmentally friendly.
In meetings, we’re just scratching the surface of what might be possible online. Not simply to try and replace live meetings with virtual ones, or print [...]
‘People Will Still Have to Meet…’
Monday, September 1st, 2008The fact that he came over to chat had very little to do with me.
I was sitting on the patio at Bridgehead Trading, the funky, fair trade coffee shop that serves as an informal meeting room and home-away-from-home for our office two blocks away. One of the counter staff came over to visit with Maydeleh, [...]
“Ask yourself: Why are you having a conference?”
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Last week’s Meeting Professionals International (MPI) World Education Congress in Las Vegas was filled with great experiences, intriguing conversations, and engaging sessions. None was better than the panel presentation entitled “What if the next generation had planned this conference?” led by Kansas State University professor Dr. Michael Wesch.
I’m biased, of course. A member of the [...]