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Archive for May 26th, 2011

Don’t make me do this

This is brilliant, and something every conference organizer needs to put at the very heart of their program: Stop Doing Things to People. David Gurteen is so right when he points out that so many of our interactions (especially at conferences!) are designed to “make” someone do something differently. Can you imagine how different a conference would be if instead of having thought leaders dropping nuggets of wisdom about how we can do things their way, it was designed to facilitate everyone finding better ways to work with each other? I can’t even really picture how that would be, but boy is it interesting to contemplate. (Thanks to Johnnie Moore for the pointer.)

Top hotels for geeks

HotelChatter has come out with its picks for the top hotels for geeks, and I must be one, because I got awfully excited about things like the switch in The Eccelston Square Hotel bathrooms that turns the glass from see-through to opaque, and the Eden Hotel’s batcave.

But what’s really sweet for small meetings are the soon-to-debut Time Square Yotel’s Studiyo meeting/yoga spaces, and its Club Cabins, which according to HotelCHatter (I couldn’t find it on Yotel’s Web site, which is, while cool to look at, really hard to navigate) “are available to rent by the hour or the day (rates are still TBD) and feature white leather banquette seating, a coffee table that can flip out to a full-sized table, a flat-screen TV and a video game console. It’s also wired to work for both business presentations and get this, karaoke.”

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