April 2013
CONVENE IS TWEETING ABOUT MEETINGS
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Tag Archives: the power of meetings
Making Magic with Dancing Matt
Magic can happen when people get together. Especially when people put their hearts into it and don’t mind looking goofy. That was one takeaway when a presenter played this video of Matt Harding dancing at an Access Academy session held last … Continue reading
‘Can Meetings Save the World?’ Yes.
A terrific cover story by Barbara Palmer in our January issue asked a simple question: “Can Meetings Save the World?” Barbara presented many examples suggesting that the answer is yes — from PopTech and the Women’s Conference to the Creativity … Continue reading
Convene On Site: Economic Significance Study
PwC’s Robert Canton, with Roger Dow, U.S. Travel; Deborah Sexton, PCMA; Michael Gehrisch, DMAI; Bruce MacMillan, MPI; John Graham, ASAE; and Joseph McInerney, AH&LA. Two years after the meetings industry’s allied organizations got all Five Families (as a huge fan … Continue reading
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‘A Large Source of Visitors and Revenue’
In response to Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has called for an economic boycott of the Grand Canyon State — especially as a meeting destination. Grijalva said in a statement: We are calling on organizations … Continue reading
The Nice Thing About Meetings Is …
Do face-to-face meetings make people nicer? That’s one way of looking at an article about the frequently vicious nature of anonymous Internet comments that was published in The New York Times the other day. What really jumped out at me … Continue reading
The Secret History of Earth Day
Happy Earth Day! Now let’s talk about what really matters: how meetings played a crucial role in its creation. To tell the story, we need to (a) consult the University of Wisconsin’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and (b) travel … Continue reading
Eye to Eye
I’ve blogged before about the importance of face time for our editorial team as a group, but yesterday morning I was reminded of its power at the one-on-one level. I drove to Maryland to interview someone for a Leading by … Continue reading
The Travel Promotion Act, or, Now What?
The news from this afternoon’s free PCMA Webinar — “How to Make the Travel Promotion Act Work for You!” — was hopeful but also sobering. Hopeful because until now, “We have had to do the entirety of marketing on our … Continue reading
Saving Face
We Convene editors all work remotely from our homes, but lately we’ve been seeing a lot of each other — at a sales and editorial conference in Chicago a month ago, an editorial retreat in North Jersey the week before last, … Continue reading
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
The other night my wife and I attended a PTA fundraiser for our older daughter’s elementary school, and during the course of things I got to talking to the father of one of our daughter’s best friends. He’s a fifth-grade … Continue reading
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