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It Turns Out Love Does Have a Lot to Do With It

When I read a review of the recently published book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become by Barbara Fredrickson, two things  came to mind. One was that I was delighted to see that the … Continue reading

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Meetings as Structures

Sustainability in architecture is not a trend, it is now a given — like inside plumbing, New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger said last night at the Tenement Museum in New York’s Lower East Side. Goldberger also shared his top … Continue reading

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The Architecture of Face-to-Face

Architect Witold Rybczynksi has just published a book called Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities. In an article in Slate that was adapted from the book, Rybczynksi traces the development of the American city from compact, densely populated, heavily industrial environment to … Continue reading

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‘Smaller Is Friendlier’

Erin Fuller, CAE, is group president of the Coulter Companies, which offers management, events, and consulting services for associations and other nonprofits — meaning she has a lot of experience with a lot of different size meetings and conferences. In … Continue reading

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Don’t Monkey Around With Stress

Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky spent a dozen years in Kenya studying the relationships within a troop of baboons and learned this: We primates really stress each other out. And, as a story about Sapolsky’s work in the August issue of Wired … Continue reading

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The Evidence-Based Case for Face-to-Face

There’s new research to back up what most of us in the meetings industry already intuitively understand: Digital interactions can only get you so far. Sometimes you just need to meet face-to-face. Gregory Northcraft, a professor of executive leadership at … Continue reading

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Rolling on the Floor, Meeting

If any more proof were needed that technology can lead to the creation of events, ROFLCon seems tailor-made to provide it. The conference, which was first held in 2008 and was reprised this spring on the MIT campus to a … Continue reading

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