Our friends over at Empire Force Events have put together a quick video with a simple message. It's about being in person, designed to help the somewhat battered, meeting industry. Just a few weeks ago, my good buddy Dave Peters from Absolute Amusements was telling me that the industry trades were talking about how events can't be about fun any more and we both had a good laugh about that. I mean next week is InternetWeek here in NYC and I can tell you there's about a million cocktail parties happening. Well, maybe not a million, but a lot. Since my days helping do events for the old NYNMA, I've always laughed about how often we'd go to cocktail parties to talk about how we'll be communicating online and all.
With all of the corporate financial troubles lately, a number of companies have had to cancel events at the last minute. Of course, canceling a meeting at the last minute actually costs more then it would to just have the meeting, but why let logic interfere when politicians can make a grand standing point about how they helped get a meeting canceled and saved us money. It's all ridiculous and it's costing the event industry money and jobs. So making Wells Fargo cancel an event just a few days before it was supposed to happen not only didn't save any money, but probably resulted in people losing their jobs. How does that help the economy?
So I liked the simple message here. Life happens in person.
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