http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face Face2face is a blog about planning face-to-face meetings, conferences, conventions, and trade shows, plus business travel and hospitality news. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:16:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's an interesting guest post by Doug Archibald, vice president, sales and service at Ungerboeck Software International- a worldwide provider of mobile event management software for conferences and venues. He's talking more to the venue side than the meeting planning side, which is a different perspective than you'd usually see ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face/2012/01/31/how-venues-can-open-new-revenue-streams-with-wireless-access/ Brought to you by the always brilliant Lara McCulloch-Carter, the #EventProfs community, and Plan Your Meetings: Stuff Event Planners Say. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWEgDFsjqaw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face/2012/01/30/this-should-sound-awfully-familiar/ My first full day at the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions annual conference, going on now in Orlando, was packed. Some notes on the meeting as a meeting. I'll get the whining out of the way first: -Yes, I already have stuffed-brain syndrome from having way too much thrown ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face/2012/01/23/notes-from-sunday-at-the-alliance-for-continuing-education-in-the-health-professions/ While it may not rock your world, this list of 10 quick meeting-planning tips from the AMI blog is a good reminder of what really counts: that it's all about the attendees, not your organization. It may be simple, but it's probably not easy! http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face/2012/01/20/10-quick-meeting-planning-tips/ That's what Kristi Casey Sanders asks in this interesting post about how what's hip today might become passé, presentation-format-wise. Plus she includes a great list of tips (and she's funny). http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face/2012/01/18/is-pecha-kucha-the-next-mashed-potato-martini/ Most of the conversations I've had recently around the trade show concept have focused on their being perceived as an old-school way to bring buyers and sellers together, one that is becoming increasingly ineffective and unappealing to attendees. Hence the move toward hosted-buyer programs, and adding education in hopes it ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face/2012/01/15/looking-to-trade-shows-for-innovation/ Or a stinky seatmate, or one that never shuts up? The list of things air passengers are and do that annoy their fellow travelers are legion. Which do you find most obnoxious? Head over to Elliott.org and register your vote on what makes for the most annoying seatmate ever. For ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face/2012/01/14/which-is-worse-on-a-plane-a-yapping-dog-or-a-screaming-baby/ Talk about communication failure! This is scathingly on target. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIABo0d9MVE[/youtube] Thanks to @BrianSMcGowan for the pointer! http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face/2012/01/14/i-just-hope-this-isnt-a-depiction-of-your-meeting/ If your attendees come to your meetings bristling with iPads, iPhones, and an assortment of other iTems, you'd best be prepared with plentiful bandwidth and perhaps a few high-tech goodies to make them feel appreciated. Like what, you ask? Here are five tech giveaway ideas from Andy McNeill, principle and ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face/2012/01/13/giveaway-ideas-for-your-attendees-inner-geek/ This is really more to ask you all for feedback of various types. I'm curious about a few things: 1. What did you think of the different session lengths being all mixed together? I heard it was a bit tough for we older folks to get used to at first, while ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face/2012/01/12/oh-just-one-more-pcma12-post/