Sunday, April 05, 2009

Lots of breakins in the surrounding neighbohoods. The new security - leave on the pool lights. Most breakins from back of houses.

Friday, April 03, 2009

Our EGG Vignette speaker for today is Debbie Mandel, Author of Addicted to Stress.
Change in today's EGG speaker http://ping.fm/GSj8b

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Rob from Google is about to speak. They are serving cocktails, which is very Googlesque. #travelcom
Herb Kelleher is a real gentleman, a real card and quite entertaining! He is giving Henry of #Forrester a run for his money!
Herb said "If it is conventional, it is not wisdom and if it is wisdom, it is not conventional". This was a quote from an analyst.
Herb Kelleher won Steve Fosset innovator award at #TravelCom for #Southwest's accomplishments
Next up at #Travelcom CEOs of Orbitz and Trvelocity. Should be interesting. Both are new.
Executive Women's Forum at #TravelCom had a record 100 women yesterday.
"A girl's just gotta have friends" article by #Huffington Post writer Karen Leland is worth a read http://ping.fm/ur7bW
Brad's topic is "the New Normal". We are not going back.....
Brad Gerstner is talking about the economy at #Travelcom. Brad heads up #Altimeter Capital.
#GDS is Global Distribution System technology - the tech that powers booking and pricing systems
The fact that #Travelcom is talking about Twitter more than the GDS technology is a sign of the times.
Travel Industry losses are not an April fools joke (unfortunately). Cancelled meetings and conventions results in lost jobs.
Henry Harteveldt of Forrester described at #Travelcom by cochair Krista Pappa as a Tweetheart
Hotels have lost nearly $1b in the last two months from meeting/convention cancellations
We had an amazing turnout at the #Executive Girlfriends' Group (lovingly called EGG) dinner last night. What fun!
It is clearly a new era at #TravelCom
At #Travelcom in Atlanta. Dreary day but is interesting to hear Roger Dow talking about Twitter.