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98 CityFile_Resort Fairmont Scottsdale Princess 99 CityFile Pasadena Jennifer N. Dienst

Departments

15 Plenary Fromthe ashes of Sept. 11. Pre Con:Macworld. Post Con: NationalHouse Directors Conference. Plus: ConveneOn Site; International Telecoms Week; Beard&Moustache Championships; in-person vs. online events; crying at work.

26What’s Happening In South Africa Christopher Durso

28 Urban Planner Mobile Bay Hunter R. Slaton

32 People & Processes Is Co-Location a Viable Strategy for Your Conference? Dave Lutz, CMP

33 Leading Learning Feed TheirMinds Jeffrey Cufaude

34 Giving Back Shared Brainpower Barbara Palmer

36Working Smarter Put It inWriting Michelle Russell

104 Features, cont.

A Brainstorming Session, Deconstructed 80 Six things that kept a recent small-group brainstorming program from becoming a tired, unstructured mess — and left par- ticipants feeling focused and energized. Michelle Russell

ONE ON ONEWITH Richard SaulWurman 83 The man behind TED, TEDMED, the e.g. conference, and other groundbreaking events discusses his next big thing — a no- attendees celebration of “intellectual jazz” called the WWW.WWW Conference — and explains why he thinks most meetings are terrible. Christopher Durso

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InnovativeMeetings 38 The ‘PeopleWhoMake

Computers Less Computer-y’ Conference

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InternationalMeetings: Perspective 43

It Comes Down to the Dollar James F. Hollan III, CAE

Convene On Location 93 Calgary

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Other Duties as Assigned 104

24-Hour Party People Lisa L. Dyson, CMP

Also in This Issue

Behind the Scenes 4 To the Point 6 Comments 8

PCMA Planner’s Notebook 10

PCMA Today 12 Advertiser Index 102

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