Winter meeting tips

Posted by Sue Pelletier
Here are 22 winter meeting tips from Cindy at AE on the Verge. My favorite is: 3. Hire service or facility to remove snow from attendee cars, if heavy snow during meeting (they’ll love you for it) I would go nutty with joy if this happened at a meeting I had to ...

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Canada?s passport data leak

Posted by Sue Pelletier
This is scary: A security flaw in Passport Canada’s website has allowed easy access to the personal information - including social insurance numbers, dates of birth and driver’s licence numbers - of people applying for new passports. The breach was discovered last week by an Ontario man completing his own passport ...

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Political, religious and sexually suggestive taglines in Association email

Posted by CindyAE
Ben Martin's post relays discussion of association policy about whether or not employees should be able to add personal political or religious comments in a tagline with ...

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E-mail taglines & employee self-expression

Interesting post on ASAE & The Center's Marketing Section Listserv yesterday:We have told our staff that they cannot add religious or political messages to their e-mail signatures. Some staff members want to add the following tag line to their e-mails: Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ...

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Diet-friendly airline food?

Posted by Sue Pelletier
I doubt it! But someone actually spent the time and effort to rate the healthiness of food offered by various airlines. Here’s the breakdown. Frankly, I’m one of those “if you eat it while traveling, it doesn’t count” people, but if you want to know how many minutes you need ...

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I Got an Extreme Makeover…

Posted by Cynthia D'Amour
   It’s scary how natural it looks! My friend Shawne set me an email saying she just couldn’t resist doing the Elf dance. Shawne is a fun-loving person. I couldn’t wait to see what she was talking about. I clicked the link and found Shawne and her hubby dancing up a storm. Needing a timeout from learning all ...

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The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas

Posted by Ann
"Influencing others in an organization to accept and act on your ideas is a challenge that never goes away," says Richard Shell, business ethics professor at Wharton and co-author of The Art of Woo. Combining the best of negotiating skills,...

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Watch out for these food trends

Posted by Sue Pelletier
I felt a bit ill just reading about the top food trends this article says are coming in 2008. A few things mentioned: mozzarella bars; “testicle festivals”; mackerel with avocado, watermelon, black olives; Cantaloupe sorbet with lavender-cured pork; Kobeburger, fries, and a foie gras milk shake. I really have nothing more ...

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Walkable cities

Posted by Sue Pelletier
Looks like Boston got knocked off its top spot, walkability-wise, according to this article on the new Brookings Institute report. A report by a venerable think tank, the Brookings Institution, declared yesterday that Boston is, in fact, not number one. Brookings instead bestowed top honors on the nation’s capital, saying Washington ...

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Tis the season?

Posted by Sue Pelletier
for the annual holiday party report. Here’s one from the Boston Globe that has some interesting nuggets, such as some companies are foregoing the gala in favor of an extra day off, or holding it in January. From the article: According to a national survey of 100 human resources executives by ...

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