Posted by:
Greg D. Ruby, CMP, CMM, CEM
Managing Director, Ruby Enterprises
You may have heard about the company behind LinkedIn going public last week and the shares doubling in price during the first day of trading.  It was the largest Initial Public Offering for an Internet based stock since Google went public in 2004.
Obviously, LinkedIn is not a fad and with a new account being created every second it is a serious player in the world of social media.  Over 100,000,000 users worldwide make it a viable source for …

Posted by:
Sue Hershkowitz-Coore
Are you inadvertently sabotaging the results you get? You are if you aren’t using email as a tool of persuasion and communication rather than simply as a method to disseminate information.
What is the difference between communicating and disseminating information? In the former, you create a conversation or a rationale for taking action and in the latter, you simply provide data, that, because “you said so,” should be accepted and embraced.
Improving business decisions doesn’t require the writing or creative abilities of Stephanie Meyer, Stephen King or Daniel Pink. Rather, it …

Posted by:
Bill Verhagen & Mark Kraus
New England Securities Corp.
Over the next two decades, the most chronicled generation in America will gradually enter retirement. At that point, each wave of baby boomers will quickly discover if their retirement plans, Social Security, and personal savings will be sufficient to maintain their existing lifestyles and needs.
Baby boomers—a name given to those born from 1946 to 1964—have been noted for their creation of the “computer age,” quest for physical fitness, and expectations for living long and full lives. Now, as the boomers pass …

Posted by:
Rob Weinhold, Principal
Warren Buffett says, “It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
Most leaders do an excellent job of leading the organizations for which they’re responsible. However, while they’re focused on developing vision, motivating people and driving results, there are many issues which routinely threaten their people, assets and brands. And, a disruption in business continuity can result in a loss of brand integrity, a diminished personal reputation, an undermining of stakeholder confidence, …

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Technology is supposed to make our lives and jobs easier — but it doesn’t always feel that way.
Even if you could keep up with all of the latest releases and innovations, it’s tough to sort out what is shiny and new and truly useful from what is merely shiny and new.

Liz King, of Liz King Events in New York City, and her partners are here to help, with the June 9 launch of PlannerTech. Their big idea is to bring meeting planners and technology providers together in a relaxed atmosphere, …

Meetings and conventions don’t all have to be engaging, informative, or well-structured. They can be just as dull, lifeless, and disorganized as the bean counters who say they need to be that way in order to have value.
Just when you think a meeting can’t possibly get any worse…it suddenly can. And YOU can do it! Here’s how.
1. Information overload

Everyone loves content! And the more the better, right? In fact, 437% of meeting attendees have between .007 and .009 nanoseconds of space in their attention span that’s not being used at …

It’s been a long time coming, but well worth the wait….The meetings industry finally has substantial and definitive data on the economic significance of face-to-face meetings to the U.S. economy.
The historic study – conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers under the guidance of 14 meetings industry organizations – was the first ever and is crucial to our ability to defend and proactively promote the value of face-to-face meetings.
The study revealed that each year the U.S. meetings industry directly supports:
• 1.7 million jobs,
• $263 billion in spending,
• a $106 billion share of the GDP,
• $60 …