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First Up
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Court Says Laptops Can Be Searched Without Cause at
Borders
By Michael Bassett
If a U.S. Border Patrol agent wants to look at--and
inside--your laptop when you cross the U.S. border, he doesn’t need a
reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to perform the search, a U.S.
court has held.
In response, dozens of organizations, including the Association of
Corporate Travel Executives, have sent an open letter to four
congressional committees asking them to consider legislation that will
“protect all Americans against suspicionless digital border
inspections.”
Read
more on the case and what ACTE is doing to warn members about the
ruling’s repercussions.
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sights, sounds and flavors to enjoy, all within a few blocks of your
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On Our Radar Screen
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Free Online Learning Opportunity: Prove Savings, Avoid
Costs
It’s not enough to save your company or organization
money, you’ve got to measure and prove every bit of cost savings as
well as cost and risk avoidance, whether you’re an in-house corporate
or association planner, independent planner, or a supplier dealing with
the involvement of procurement in meeting sourcing.
Join a senior panel of meeting professionals on May 21 at 2 p.m. EDT
for the second webinar this year organized by MeetingsNet in cooperation
with the Convention Industry Council about using APEX--the Accepted
Practices Exchange initiative--as a tool in your strategic meetings
management program.
Here’s more
on the panelists as well as registration information.
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Washington Wire
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Increased Compensation for Bumped Airline
Passengers
By Sue
Hatch
There's less than two weeks to go before new federal
regulations increase significantly the compensation for airline
passengers who get bumped involuntarily.
The new measure comes after a rocky 2007 when passenger complaints to
the Department of Transportation about baggage handling, customer
service, and flight problems rose 58 percent over 2006. The biggest jump
came from flight problems--delays, cancellations, and missed
connections--where complaints increased more than 100 percent, from
2,162 to 4,465.
The bumped passenger compensation cap will be doubled starting May
21.
Here’s
a rundown of the new rules.
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Join a group of senior planners in a panel discussion to review industry
best practices you can use to implement your own strategic meetings
management program. The free APEX webinar, organized by MeetingsNet and
the Convention Industry Council, and sponsored by Palace Resorts, will
take place on May 21 at 2 p.m. EDT. Click
here for more.
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Hot Spots
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ASAE Launches Global Responsibility
Movement
By Dave Kovaleski
At a landmark summit last week put on by the American
Society of Association Executives and The Center for Association
Leadership, approximately 860 people met virtually from 20 locations
around the world to discuss ways that associations can effect social,
political, and environmental change.
In both scope and design, the Global Responsibility Summit was different
than any conference ASAE and The Center has held. “This is just the
beginning of a historic movement in our profession,” said Susan
Sarfati, executive vice president at ASAE and president and CEO of The
Center, welcoming attendees from the host site, the Gaylord National
Hotel in National Harbor, Md. “Give freely, think big, and help create
what could become the world’s largest social responsibility
movement.”
Click
here to read about the live/online format, project proposals that
came out of the three-day event, and the conference follow-up plan.
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Blogged!
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Chicken, Chicken, Chicken: PowerPoint from Hell, and
More
By Sue Pelletier
I've been fishing around off the deep end this past
week. The latest posts will take you to, among other places, a remarkable
timewaster created to eavesdrop on a Twittering world’s zeitgeist,
a poultry-related
PowerPoint presentation that you’ve got to pray doesn’t sound
too familiar to your attendees, and to a
collection of shoes that are, well, just wrong.
All that and more on face2face, the
MeetingsNet blog.
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