That appears to be the rallying cry for meeting planners these days. No big surprise there, with the rapid growth in both attendee and organizational downloads, uploads, and all-around Internet overloads. Here’s an interesting look from the New York Times at the state of the art in convention hotels and conference centers, and the […]
From the movie “Milk“: “You gotta give them hope.”
Aren’t associations supposed to be in the business of hope?
Intergenerational learning should be two-way (or multiple-way), so people can have an opportunity to learn more about each other. Here’s an interesting way some younger folks were able to learn about Boomers.
If you ever get stumped for the meaning of some obscure travel industry jargon, check out TravelJargon.org, a neat little tool I ran across on Christian Frei’s blog.
While the Convention Industry Council’s APEX Industry Glossary will always be my main go-to resource for this sort of thing, Travel Jargon looks pretty easy to use, too.
I heard a lot of talk at IAEE’s Expo! Expo! about how trade shows are still a vital part of the marketing mix for most companies, how nothing has really changed—and how it really won’t change—when it comes to the necessity for trade shows. But is that true, or just wishful thinking on the part […]
Reading can be a guilty pleasure, but now book buying is too. The business model for publishing and bookselling is crumbling, and book buyers are conflicted. Writing in Sunday’s NY Times Week in Review, David Streitfield confesses to contributing to…
Andy Sernovitz recommends keeping marketing messages positive. If your market is thinking negatively, though, you may need a clever twist to make that message positive.
Now I really enjoy Facebook, but here’s 7 alarming realizations …
1. I can see pictures of people I know professionally in their pajamas at Christmas. Since apparently everyone’s kids took pictures Christmas morning and posted them along with tags on Facebook, I now know who wears holiday-theme pajamas to open gifts.
2. Marketers find my association Facebook site easily, and I’m removing them. What a pain. It’s always been necessary to moderate association blog comments because of the enormous volume of marketing organization trying to reach our audience that way (we don’t let them), and now they take “open” to mean it’s okay to try to clog a discussion board with solicitations. Blah.
3. If you can’t trust someone with email, chances are good they can’t be trusted as a Facebook friend. You know, the ones who send “those” kind of jokes or want to recount times that need to be forgotten. Unfortunately, it’s possible to imagine what would surface on the Wall by clicking the word “Accept”.
4. People forget that all conversation is actually not meant to be public. Sending a personal email or making a call might remain a good first step if something is potentially controversial … or private. Maybe the media might just find what’s posted on “open” sites too.
5. That thought you can separate your private life from public life on Facebook is actually implausible. Unless you genuinely have no past, friends, or relatives outside of work - you may just find your association members will in fact get to see what you looked like in that ugly gym uniform in high school.
6. I know more about what my college-aged daughter is doing at home during the holidays from Facebook than from sitting in the same room with her. I told her she should feel free to remove (”unfriend“) me — as my thought was maybe as parents we aren’t meant to see whole photo albums of our kids at college and online postings with their friends. She told me “everyone’s mother” is on Facebook, so I’m not remotely unique or a stalker (because of the “News Feed” feature), and this is actually a part of how relationships work now.
7. One of these days I’m going to figure out how to be less traumatized by exposure. Or at least have the courage to accept that there’s not that much that can be done about how much will continue to be out there, whether we think we’re participating or not. Can we really be public but not public?
…then it must be so! ASAE & The Center conducted a research study they called “Associations of the Future.” Among the trends identified by the study: “Growing popularity of online education relative to that of classroom-based courses.” (See Associations Now, December 2008, page 20, for a brief summary, or the full report for more details.)
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But Mom and Dad saved me.
Raindrop here - and alive.
This morning, Mom and Dad were ignoring me.
They ate breakfast.
Started talking about goals for 2009.
How boring!
I decided to find something more fun to do.
And hit the jackpot.
You’ll never believe what I found.
A bag of Zingerman’s brownies!
Life was good!
Two pounds of pure, high-quality chocolate.
Balanced with the […]
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