Postcards Around the World

A great way to celebrate your Honeymoon, travels or just for fun is a new App. available on your I-Phone or Andriod Phone. The App is free and it prints your photo from your phone and sends it as a postcard anywhere in the world for only 99cents!

This is a great spontaneous way to celebrate your memories either with friend or loved ones.

Another great use is to make these a memory scrap book of your travels that will be waiting for you when you get home with the different travel postmarks showcasing your trip.

This is also featured in August's Meetings & Conventions Magazine. http://postagramapp.com/ to download this fun app.

Set Your Meeting Room For Success

Planning sessions involve a lot of brainstorming, note-taking and interacting. To hold an effective planning session, you’ll need to take all these elements into consideration when setting up your meeting room.

How people are seated and where technology is located in the room affects the way attendees communicate. Depending on how you would like to conduct the meeting, I have two suggestions for how to lay out the seating and technology in the room.

Option #1
Apply this first option if you plan to use an interactive whiteboard or a screen located at the front of the room to give a presentation or to record ideas and decisions.

Set up rectangular tables in a U-shape, with the U opening up to where the presenter and whiteboard are located. This setup keeps attendees in plain view of each other and encourages communication. The meeting leader, as well as any presentation or whiteboard tools, will be in plain view at all times, allowing attendees to easily refer back to decisions and notes.

Option #2
If you don’t plan to record notes or present information on a central screen, seat attendees around one long rectangular or circular table where everyone can see each other. Make sure there is nothing in the middle to obstruct anyone’s view. For this setup it is important to assign someone at the table to record meeting minutes so everyone is clear about decisions made and action items assigned.

As Henry Ford, pioneer of the assembly-line production method once said, “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, and working together is success.” Any meeting room can bring people together, but a room laid out to suit your specific meeting purpose will help your team work better together and produce better results. Great tips from www.effectivemeetings.com

Bouquet Toss With a Twist

Here is a great story…

“We had a shortage of single men and women invited to our wedding. Most of our friends and family were already married. So we needed to come up with something different to replace the traditional bouquet and garter throwing. We invited everyone to the dance floor and the DJ played several lovely, slow songs.

First the DJ told all couples married two hours or less to sit down (everyone got a kick out of that). Then a few moments later, any married a year or less, than five years, ten years and so on, until there was only one couple left. They were neighbors and friends of my family and had been married for fifty years.

We asked them to stay on the dance floor while I took a seat and my husband made a big show of removing my garter. We then faced the winning couple, congratulated them on their fifty years and asked them for their best marriage advice as we presented them with the bouquet and garter. They were very touched and it gave us a great feeling too.”

This delightful story comes to you from www.ourwedding.com.