I’ve been to 6 or 7 conferences and conventions over the past six months and one of the things I have been monitoring is the speaker bait and switch. As a tradeshow guy, one of the most interesting things to me at a show is the Program/Directory Addendum. Here’s where you see the [...]

I’ve just spent the last two days at a conference trying to write and balance my notepad on my knees because the organizer chose to set the room theater style with no tables. It has become my biggest pet peeve in the conference industry lately.
Attention all organizers: if you are charging upwards of [...]

PaidContent.org, my one and only “must read everyday” RSS feed has an article today that Google has received “initial permission” to provide content in China. Unbelievable. Can you imagine having to get permission from the government to launch a tradeshow, conference or meeting in the USA? Asking permission to launch a content [...]

I love this story in the New York Times. It seems Google wanted to crash the eBay Live convention with an event of their own that conflicted with some of the eBay events. Now, most of us convention organizers have to just put up with companies that choose to throw their own events [...]