Category: Event Industry

Event Industry

The Meetings Industry, Soon Under New Management

First, I think that I should state that this post is not geared toward all industry old-timers, just a select few and they know who

Event Industry

How Hotel Marketers Ruin Conference Planner Love

Hotel marketers, for all of their savvy, can sometimes be clueless morons that can screw up a wet dream. I am not sure what motivates

Why I Follow @michaelmccurry and @joaneisenstodt

Continuing down the path of people that I follow leads me to a couple of industry experts. These are people who know their stuff and

Why Aren’t There More Green Meetings – A Couple More Reasons

Reading an article that Heidi Thorn wrote today, the title is “Why Aren’t There More Green Consumers?”. Great Article ……100% awesome Heidiness, you should read

Follow Up to My Post on the Park 51 Community Center

My post about the Park 51 Muslim Community Center has created quite a stir on some of our industry message boards. Since I wrote the

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The Real State of the Economy for the Meetings and Events Industry

Meeting and event people crack me up (and yes, I am one of them and yes, I crack myself up). We have the unique ability

Thoughts on the Park 51 Community Center

I typically do not weigh in on political matters here unless the pertain to the meetings and events industry and the more that I think

Preferred Vendor Contracts are Bad for Meeting Planners

Event Industry

Do Conference Organizers Know What is in that “Preferred Vendor” Contract

June 24, 2011, Update- Updating info on some of the links below (some of the venues have taken the pages down… chickens). I was at

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10 Reasons to Meet on the Gulf Coast Now

The meetings and events industry associations’ response to the Gulf Oil Spill has been downright shameful. After the AIG incident, they (we) all got together