Meeting professionals may not think of themselves as creative types — more like the rubber-meets-the-road kind of people. But when you think about what goes into assembling the many pieces of an event from start to finish, I’d say it … Continue reading →

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Visit. Go. Discover. Choose. Experience. In the May issue of Convene, we explore why DMOs are choosing their first names carefully. In the February issue, we talked about how some CVBs are choosing some interesting partnerships — forming alliances with … Continue reading →

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After getting a pretty mean sunburn while waiting more than an hour for a beer, it was difficult to say many good things about the first-ever Great GoogaMooga, held in Booklyn last year. This summer, organizers of the annual food and music festival promised things would … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Yesterday morning, as part of a media trip sponsored by The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, I played foosball. With my whole body. While touring Broadmoor Hall, part of the resort’s extensive meeting and event facilities, we walked into Broadmoor A … Continue reading →

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While Google Hangouts may have gotten serious the moment President Obama used the program, or maybe when major media outlets started to broadcast interviews via Google Hangouts, now its gotten even more professional with HangoutMagix. Our team at Convene has … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Recently, I had a phone interview with Storify Co-Founder Burt Herman while he was attending the 2013 South by Southwest Festival, held in Austin March 8–17. Wandering through thousands of festival-goers, he explained how much “noise” can be created on … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Technology + meetings industry + expert = Corbin Ball. That’s been a proven formula for the past 15 years that Corbin has devoted himself full-time to meetings technology. In this video interview with James Latham of International Meetings Review — … Continue reading →

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