Conduct Unbecoming
What happens when ugliness spills over into your meeting? Is it your job to police attendees and other participants — in the real world and online?
Archives for March 2013
Solving the Worst Problem in the World
Meetings and conferences are how we start trying to fix things that are too big and nebulous for one person to handle. Like child sex abuse, which, in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, was the subject of Penn State's Child Sexual Abuse Conference on Traumatic Impact, Prevention, and Intervention.
5 Things I Didn't Know About Dubai Until Today
It's a little after 10 p.m. in the United Arab Emirates and I've finished my first day of a fam trip hosted by the Dubai Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Does Your Meeting Have a Glass Ceiling?
The recent debate over the professional lives of women that has been sparked by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new book and Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's telecommuting ban takes a turn toward the meetings industry.
From Epic Fail to Radical Hope
It takes a lot of courage to admit that you mistakenly ordered 40,000 elephants to be shot. But that's exactly what biologist Allan Savory did in the talk at TED2013 in Long Beach.
David Allen
The productivity guru talks about Getting Things Done, his pioneering system for personal and professional efficiency — and what meetings and meeting professionals can learn from it.
Forward Thinking: Put Your Expo on the Not-To-Do-List
I’d estimate that about 25 percent of you who are reading this need to consider sunsetting your expo for either your annual or topical conference.
Scan Away
Two organizations’ experiences using QR codes at their meetings highlight the potential and problems of the increasingly popular technology.
Sustainability a Mile High
Denver has become the first destination in the world to be certified under the APEX/ASTM Environmentally Sustainable Meeting Standards that were unveiled last year. Visit Denver, the Colorado Convention Center, and Image Audiovisuals — the convention center’s in-house AV provider — were certified in the categories of Destinations, Meeting Venue, and Audio-Visual, respectively.
