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There’s a Blog for That?

Posted on April 2, 2012 by bpalmer

A recurring feature in Convene’s front-of-the-magazine “Plenary” department is “There’s a Meeting For That?” which explores the awe-inspiring range of interests that bring people together. We’ve uncovered everything from the Face Painting and Body Art Convention to Laurapalooza 2010, which … Continue reading →

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Mike Daisey: Hazy Details

Posted on March 19, 2012 by mrussell

Since I posted a blog about my reaction to attending Mike Daisey’s one-man performance, “The Agony and Ecstacy of Steve Jobs,” Daisey has admitted that he fabricated certain elements of his trip to the Foxcomm plant in China. His performance … Continue reading →

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Celebrating #Neuroscience

Posted on March 13, 2012 by bpalmer

  Image by Jared Tarbell, via Creative Commons This week is Brain Awareness Week, a good time to assess the growing influence that neuroscience research is having on how we think about meeting design and creating environments that support learning. … Continue reading →

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A Modest Proposal

Posted on November 1, 2011 by bpalmer

>I recently talked to Jane McGonigal, one of the world’s foremost experts on games and the author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Makes Us Better and How They Can Change the World. The interview will appear in the November issue … Continue reading →

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December 2010 Issue: Live!

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Chris Durso

Just in time for Christmas comes the digital edition of our December 2010 issue, whose cover story (and CMP Series article) is a veritable stocking stuffed with bite-sized treats. Intended as a counterpoint to last December’s cover story on change of the high-level, deep-think … Continue reading →

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Happy 41st Birthday, Internet!

Posted on October 29, 2010 by sbeauchamp

Forty-one years ago today, the first message was transmitted over ARPANET, the computer network that would grow into the Internet, when UCLA graduate student Charles Kline sent the world “login” — one letter at a time — to Stanford Research … Continue reading →

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Extra, Extra!: Convene Newsstand

Posted on October 5, 2010 by hslaton

Welcome back to ThisWeek@PCMA‘s online news supplement, Extra, Extra!. So what’s meetings-industry news in late September/early October? Let’s see: Party planners will be happy to hear that, after two years of scaled-back (if not entirely canceled) celebrations, holiday parties are … Continue reading →

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Sending Soap to Haiti

Posted on January 14, 2010 by bpalmer

Planners and suppliers who stayed in conference hotels at PCMA’s 2010 Annual Meeting in Dallas can take some comfort in knowing that they already are part of the tremendous relief effort mobilizing for Haiti. At all five conference hotels, housekeepers like Elizabeth … Continue reading →

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