Author Archives: Chris Durso

When is it time to unplug? Yesterday morning my wife wanted to celebrate Mother’s Day with a few hours of quiet, undemanding family time, so we took our two daughters to Great Falls Park, which straddles the Potomac River in … Continue reading →

There are no new ideas, at least not in my head this beautiful Friday afternoon. Last night my wife and I attended a reception at the Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC, hosted by the Greater Houston Convention & Visitors Bureau … Continue reading →

Do we spend enough time talking about a meeting as a live experience? Not as a face-to-face experience, but as a unique, one-time-only production? I don’t know that we do. And we should. A good meeting is a sort of … Continue reading →

In January I’ll be in Boston for PCMA’s Convening Leaders 2014 program, and I’m really glad about that. When something like yesterday’s Boston Marathon bombing happens, all anyone really wants is to help — to give blood, to donate money, … Continue reading →

Following up on Barbara’s post about the U.S. Travel Association’s Destination: Capitol Hill lobbying event last week — I attended the first day of the program, which consisted of a briefing at the Park Hyatt Washington D.C. on Wednesday afternoon. … Continue reading →

Mary Byers was in Washington, D.C., last Friday afternoon, speaking about her new book, Road to Relevance: 5 Strategies for Competitive Associations, at an Executive Briefing program sponsored by Affinity Center International and Experient, and Convene was lucky enough to … Continue reading →

We may have a contender for single greatest contribution to human welfare by meetings and conventions: the great American chocolate bar. My family spent Easter weekend in Hershey, Pa., and yesterday morning we visited the Hershey Story museum, which counts … Continue reading →

A week or so ago our chief Michelle Russell wrote about an app that prompted South by Southwest organizers to issue a cease-and-desist order because the app — which anonymously matched Facebook friends looking to hook up during the Austin festival … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →