Everyone’s talking about social media and meetings, and many are even incorporating things like blogs and Twitter feeds into their events. But if you’re like most of us, you have more questions than answers at this point.

Enter C. David Gammel, president of High Context Consulting, who spends his time helping his clients with all things webby, including social media. Last week, I asked him some of my burning questions, including how to deal with backchannels at the meeting, how to handle blogs around a conference, and whether you should worry about social media making your meeting obsolete. Here’s a podcast of our conversation—I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Last week, InXpo Inc., the Chicago-based virtual event company, announced a partnership with Maritz, its second deal with a major meeting and event company in the past two months.

Find out more about the new partner for Maritz and George P. Johnson, and the market for these no-nonsense online event spaces.

My uncle Bob, for reasons known only to himself, embarked on an audio editing project of no earthly use to anyone. As he describes it: “Each time I listen to National Public Radio, I notice extensive blocks of air time cluttered with what I call ‘non-nutritive filler’—meaningless mutterings such as ‘you know’ or ‘to be perfectly honest with you.’ I decided to record 30 consecutive minutes of NPR completely at random, edit so that only the filler is left, and give a listen.”

I’ve got the resulting two-minute audio clip and some thoughts on cleaning up recordings of live webinars—or your speakers’ bad habits—in the first place.

As budgets tighten and corporate meetings managers struggle with fewer resources, American Express Business Travel has a new small-meetings tool to take advantage of the market opportunity. The company has launched Small Meetings eXpert, an online booking engine for events of fewer than 50 attendees, built on the Worktopia platform. The basic idea: decentralize the logistics, control the spend data.

Turning Technologies, LLC, a leader in interactive response systems, joined the ranks of mobile polling companies last fall with a new application called ResponseWare, which allows participants to submit responses via Internet-connected cell phones and mobile devices, as well as computers. Now the company has made a leap toward mass distribution.