>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 →

> 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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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.
At Convene, we’ve taken a lively interest in the topic: In our cover story in July 2010, Andrea E. Sullivan, president of Brain Strength Systems, introduced readers to mirror neurons, and Dr. John Medina got us thinking about chunking information during presentations.  In January, David Rock, author of Your Brain at Work described how the …

> 15 View more presentations from cdurso. How many hotels are opening in the United States this year? What are the top five international meeting destinations? How many meetings does the average planner organize every year? Find out the numbers … Continue reading →

>”Look at this,” my dad said to me recently, pointing to the new digital camera he had purchased. “It’s a Japanese camera manufactured in China. What else is new?” I thought about that frequent lament — that all the manufacturing … Continue reading →

>”Look at this,” my dad said to me recently, pointing to the new digital camera he had purchased. “It’s a Japanese camera manufactured in China. What else is new?”

I thought about that frequent lament — that all the manufacturing jobs have left the U.S. and other countries for China — when I saw Mike Daisey perform his theatrical monologue “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” at New York City’s Public Theater yesterday afternoon.
For nearly two hours, Daisey sat in a chair on the spare stage to share his …

I have to give two shouts out: the first to Joan Eisenstodt for all of her great work with students and their programs, and the second to Susan Katz and Neil Schriever for their great work with the New Professionals Task Force. Without the dedication and hard work of these people, along with our chapter volunteers, we would not have the involvement, insight, and contributions of the student and new professionals groups that we rely upon today.
One of my favorite things to do is to talk with students and new …

By Elizabeth Henderson
Before the hype, before game mechanics became a sexy, sparkly term in the meetings industry and beyond, there was just the Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC) and an interest in using a risky idea to make sustainable meetings education stick.
The idea took research on the application of game mechanics to business situations, added a mission to inspire sustainability in the meetings industry, and mixed in a group of volunteers who bucked the uncertainty of a new idea and took a risk that paid off. The risk was the …

>New York magazine landed in my mailbox this week, with a story, “Those Fabulous Confabs,” that comes straight from the heart of the meetings industry. It’s a gossipy look at the growth and evolution of the TED conference, and dozens … Continue reading →