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71 Convention Connections Premier convention centers and hotels that jointly market their meeting and exhibit facilities 72 Austin CVB 74 Experience Columbus 76 Ocean Center Daytona Beach


78 Myrtle Beach 80 Nashville Music City Center


82 Pasadena CVB 84 Phoenix Convention Center


86 Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel


88 ProvidenceWarwick CVB 90 Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel


92 St. Louis CVC 94 San Jose Hotels Inc. 96 Scottish Exhibition + Conference Centre


98 Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel


Julie Ritzer Ross


Scott Klososky 62 Technology and leadership expert: “An evolutionary change is, we’re now going to pass out the PowerPoints on a USB drive. A revolutionary change is, we’re going to engage the speakers in a completely different way.” Christopher Durso


Sheena Iyengar 66 Columbia Business School professor: “Choice has its limitations. One of the things that we fail to recognize is that to get the most out of choice, you have to be choosy about choosing.” Barbara Palmer


Features


CONVENING LEADERS FOLLOW-UP 61 Sitting down with two Masters Series speakers from PCMA 2011 Convening Leaders


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Departments Plenary 13


The flight that Twitter made. Pre Con: SXSW Trade Show. Post Con: RSNA 2010.


Plus: the great Minneapolis solar array; rise of the machines;


104 Convene on Site.


Leading Learning 20 WhyWe Can’t Think Differently


Jeffrey Cufaude


Urban Planner 24 Indianapolis


International Meetings: Asia Rising 26 The Lesson of


the Cherry Blossom Michelle Russell


Innovative Meetings 28 Attendees JustWant to Have Fun


Scott Cullather


Giving Back 30 Surplus Good Barbara Palmer


Other Duties as Assigned 104 Step Right Up GloryWade


Also in This Issue Behind the Scenes


Comments To the Point


PCMA Planner’s Notebook


PCMA Today


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Advertiser Index 103


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