http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Changing the World one Meeting at a Time en Vox Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:39:55 -0600 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/83-of-associations-are-now-using-social-media.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Christine Pennel-Jones) http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/83-of-associations-are-now-using-social-media.html?_c=feed-rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/83-of-associations-are-now-using-social-media.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:39:55 -0600 I just read a great article on MIMegasite.com (the electronic version of Successful Meetings) which cites a recent poll by Champion Exposition Services, a San Francisco-based event and tradeshow marketing firm. The survey shows that 83% of polle... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/83-of-associations-are-now-using-social-media.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00f48cf0e24b000301240b751aaf860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/proposed-travel-promotion-act-of-2009.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Christine Pennel-Jones) http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/proposed-travel-promotion-act-of-2009.html?_c=feed-rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/proposed-travel-promotion-act-of-2009.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:40:13 -0600 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/photo/6a00f48cf0e24b00030123ddb7f7d4860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00f48cf0e24b00030123ddb7f7d4860b-50si" alt="PCMA newsletter Fall 09" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> While the “AIG Effect” appears to be waning for corporate meetings, the Hospitality Community awaits passage of the proposed Travel Promotion Act of 2009. The term “AIG Effect” is the term coined during the fallout from the meeting AIG held in S... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/proposed-travel-promotion-act-of-2009.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00f48cf0e24b00030123ddb7fbac860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> las vegas conventions meetings experient pcma travel promotion act pcma heartland chapter hospitality community pcma heartland chapter newsletter christine pennel-jones aig effect http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/social-media.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Christine Pennel-Jones) http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/social-media.html?_c=feed-rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/social-media.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:47:51 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/video/6a00f48cf0e24b000301240b611668860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00f48cf0e24b000301240b611668860e-50si" alt="Social Media Revolution" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> It's been a crazy busy year, but I'm back. Wanted to come out swinging by posting this incredibly relevant & well-done video on Socialnomics & the Social Media Revolution. It really puts things into perspective on the momentum of Social Media. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/social-media.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00f48cf0e24b00030123dda5cd6d860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> myspace youtube digg facebook social media event planning twitter meeting planning socialnomics http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-store-closing-list-1.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Christine Pennel-Jones) http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-store-closing-list-1.html?_c=feed-rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-store-closing-list-1.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:07:58 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/link/6a00f48cf0e24b000300fa9689428e0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00f48cf0e24b000300fa9689428e0003-50si" alt="Starbucks Store Closing List" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-store-closing-list-1.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00f48cf0e24b000300fae8cd2fe5000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> starbucks starbucks closes starbucks closing starbucks store closing list starbucks closings http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-store-closing-list.html?_c=feed-rss 100 nobody@vox.com(Christine Pennel-Jones) http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-store-closing-list.html?_c=feed-rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-store-closing-list.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:18:59 -0500 Speaking of Starbucks... Only July 1, 2008, Starbucks announced that they will close 600 Stores. Starbucks Store closures will begin this month & continue throughout The first half of Fiscal Year 2009. Click here to see Starbucks Corporate ann... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-store-closing-list.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00f48cf0e24b000300fad69ad3130005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> starbucks starbucks closes starbucks closing starbucks store closing list starbucks closings http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-meetings-its-about-the-experience.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Christine Pennel-Jones) http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-meetings-its-about-the-experience.html?_c=feed-rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-meetings-its-about-the-experience.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:43:16 -0500 "If you had the foresight to know that the economy was going to crash, that you knew that commodity prices were going to go up, you'd do a lot of things differently," the former CEO of Starbucks, Jim Donald shared in a video posted on CNN Money/F... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/starbucks-meetings-its-about-the-experience.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00f48cf0e24b000300fa967cf2390003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> san francisco cnn starbucks networking conventions meetings community-building ceu cme meeting destinations re-branding your meeting branding your meeting travel industry association lessons from the fall http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/meeting-attendees-seize-control---web-20-at-its-worst.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Christine Pennel-Jones) http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/meeting-attendees-seize-control---web-20-at-its-worst.html?_c=feed-rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/meeting-attendees-seize-control---web-20-at-its-worst.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 13 May 2008 09:54:31 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/video/6a00f48cf0e24b000300f48d165c170001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00f48cf0e24b000300f48d165c170001-50si" alt="Time Out at SXSW: The Sarah Lacy/Mark Zuckerberg interview" /></a> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/video/6a00f48cf0e24b000300e398f93b140004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00f48cf0e24b000300e398f93b140004-50si" alt="SXSW, Twitter, SocialThing and FriendFeed" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> This is a true story. Moving from La Guardia Airport to my hotel in the Upper West Side of NYC last Wednesday, I glanced through Corbin Ball's e-zine with particular interest on his article "The Speaker-Audience Balance is Shifting" on my Treo. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/meeting-attendees-seize-control---web-20-at-its-worst.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00f48cf0e24b000300e398f935800004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> sxsw conferences facebook web 2.0 meetings twitter zuckerberg facebook generation zuckerberg lacey interview http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/wikification-of-meetings-conventions.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Christine Pennel-Jones) http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/wikification-of-meetings-conventions.html?_c=feed-rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/wikification-of-meetings-conventions.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 05 May 2008 15:17:09 -0500 The cover story on the Wall Street Journal this weekend was an intriguing article, "iDo--How the Facebook Generation gets Married." Nearly as compelling to me as a hot Starbucks, I tore into the article on my 6am flight out of San Francisco yest... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/wikification-of-meetings-conventions.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00f48cf0e24b000300f48d13e4080001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> web 2.0 online communities wall street journal ido association trends facebook generation association meetings association conferences knowledge repository ido--how the facebook generation gets married association conventions http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/experient-expands-into-china.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Christine Pennel-Jones) http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/experient-expands-into-china.html?_c=feed-rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/experient-expands-into-china.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:14:59 -0500 Experient has expanded into China! Our very own Ping He will be traveling to Beijing, China in a few weeks to meet with our partner, CITS & make preparation for Caterpillar International & their top 100 distributors for a 3-week trip to the Sum... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/experient-expands-into-china.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00f48cf0e24b000300e398f45cce0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> shanghai china beijing the world is flat chinese government summer olympics meeting in china experient expands into china summer olympics in china international meetings meetingsnet cits ping he pcma china international travel international destionation thomas l friedman http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/new-orleans-is-truly-open.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Christine Pennel-Jones) http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/new-orleans-is-truly-open.html?_c=feed-rss http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/post/new-orleans-is-truly-open.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:48:40 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/video/6a00f48cf0e24b000300f48d0fae370001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00f48cf0e24b000300f48d0fae370001-50si" alt="What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong" /></a> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/video/6a00f48cf0e24b000300e398f2888a0004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00f48cf0e24b000300e398f2888a0004-50si" alt="I&#39;ll Fly Away - Live at Cafe du Monde - Hack Bartholomew" /></a> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/video/6a00f48cf0e24b000300f48cf102240003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00f48cf0e24b000300f48cf102240003-50si" alt="Wynton Marsalis-Bourbon Street Parade" /></a> <a href="http://christinepenneljones.vox.com/library/video/6a00f48cf0e24b000300e398f297910005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00f48cf0e24b000300e398f297910005-50si" alt="::Exclusive Video:: Forever New Orleans" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Just returned from total immersion in the polite grittiness of New Orleans for the past 4 days. 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