Having More Breathing Space

What would your life be like if you had more breathing space: www.breathingspace.com/differentials

Speaking Tips Resource Guide

Here is a wonderful roster of speaking tips and related websites:

www.aresearchguide.com/3tips.html

Web Access at Meetings Sites

Want to know what options you have for Internet access in your area or in an area where you'll be conducting a meeting? Visit www.thelist.com and enter the telephone area code or zip code. You will then see a display of all the providers.

Cut Through Dialing Clutter

Planning a meeting and when on the phone do you want to cut down how long you're either put on hold or forced to push an endless series of buttons? Visit www.gethuman.com for dialing short cuts to all the top airline, hotel, and travel sites.

It feels great to actually reach a live person in record time!

Information that May Haunt You

It is plainly evident that vast segments of the population have turned to online exhibitionism. Writing in the Washington Post, economist Robert J. Samuelson observes says, “ It turns out that the Internet has unleashed the greatest outburst of mass exhibitionism in human history.”

“…MySpace has 56 million American "members." Facebook, which started as a site for college students and has expanded to high school students and others, has 9 million members. …YouTube, a site where anyone can post home videos, says 100 million videos are watched daily.”

“People seem to crave popularity or celebrity more than they fear the loss of privacy.” However, “what goes on the Internet often stays on the Internet. Something that seems harmless, silly or merely impetuous today may seem offensive, stupid or reckless in two weeks, two years or two decades.” Samuelson notes that “Henry David Thoreau famously remarked that ‘the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.’ Thanks to technology, that's no longer necessary. People can now lead lives of noisy and ostentatious desperation...”

Event Based Websites

www.MeetingsNet.com
www.RentalManagementMag.com
www.SpecialEvents.com

www.BizBash.com
www.Event-Solutions.com
www.ISES.com

NSA Chapters Websites

Alabama www.nsaalabama.org
Arizona www.nsa-arizona.org
N.California www.nsanc.org
San Diego www.nsasd.org
GLAC www.glacnsa.org
Colorado www.nsacolorado.org

Connecticut www.nsact.org
DC www.nsadc.org
Florida www.florida-speakers.org
Central Florida www.nsacentralflorida.com
Georgia www.nsageorgia.org
lllinois www.nsa-il.org

lndiana www.nsa-indiana.com
Kansas www.nsa-kc.org
Kentucky www.nsakentucky.org
New Orleans www.nsaneworleans.com
Michigan www.nsamichigan.org
Minnesota www.nsaminnesota.com

St. Louis www.nsastlouis.org
Nebraska www.nsanebraska.com
New England www.nsanewengland.com
Carolinas www.nsacarolinas.org
New York Tri-State www.nsa-tri-state.org
Ohio www.nsaohio.org

Oklahoma www.nsaoklahoma.org
Oregon www.nsaoregon.net
Mid-Atlantic Chapter www.nsamidatlantic.org
Pittsburgh www.pennspeakers.org
Tennessee www.nsatennessee.com
Houston www.nsahouston.org

North Texas www.speaker.org
Heart of Texas www.nsahot.org
Utah www.nsautah.com
Northwest www.nsanorthwest.org
Wisconsin www.wisconsinspeakers.com
Virginia www.nsavirginia.org

The Net Meeting Phenomena

Here is my 2001 article on Jumping Aboard the Net Meeting Bandwagon. Amazing how quickly times flies and how this is all coming into place.

More Useful Websites

100 Ultra-Useful Websites For Bureaus, Part 2

partial list, continued:

Marketing

	Human Click -- give your Web site visitors Live Help when they need it the most
	Link Popularity -- a detailed listing of all sites linking to your URL
	Link Spy -- keep tab on all sites with which you have reciprocal exchanges
	Your Web Address -- insert your own address and see who's linking to you
	Egrabber -- build a database with a list of contacts and names

	Flip Browser -- site visitors can peruse a photo album of your featured speakers
	Spy On It -- complete the form and receive alerts when you're cited on the Web
	Expert Click --help generate publicity for your speakers and your bureau
	Prof Net -- submit press releases to key media with one email
	Phone Spelling -- enter your phone number to what words it spells

Corporate Profiles

	Annual Report Service -- a huge free directory of online annual reports
	Hoover's Online -- 1000's company profiles; find new customers, research markets
	Private Eye -- search real property records, credit ratings, and more
	Corp Tech -- a high-tech business directory
	Vault -- information corporations and hiring practices
	Tracer Lock -- scan thousands of articles daily to find what you're seeking
	Wall Street Journal -- Wall Street Journal's corporate database, updated daily

100 Websites For Bureaus

Here is a partial list of the 100 Ultra-Useful Websites:

Business

	CEO Express -- a spectacular all-in-one site for business owners
	All Business -- many services and features designed for business owners
	Tropica -- provide details on hundreds of mailing lists
	Insure.com -- quotes for every kind of business and domestic insurance
	Let's Talk -- offers comparative analysis of cell phone calling plans

	Package Tracking -- trace your express package with UPS, FedEx, Airborne, etc
	Dial Pad -- make phone calls from your PC to others' phones
	Phone Deal -- all things related to phones and phone services
	Do Not Call -- remove your number from telemarketing lists
	Report Fax Spam -- inform the FCC about unsolicited fax marketers
	Botspot -- bots for every type of automation need

World Business Travelers

Here is the site for World Business Travelers

Top Meeting Industry Magazines

Three of my favorites:

Meetings & Conventions - www.mcmag.com

Meeting News - www.meetingnews.com

Successful Meetings - www.successfulmeetings.com

About Your Conference

A wonderful site for seeing how your conference connects with other sites on the web: simply type your conference name in quotes on the search line at Kartoo.