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Act of God – the sequel
April 22nd, 2010
Reason has returned to the world, the airlines are flying again. Though why the airlines think they are entitled to some sort of compensation for this divine intervention is unclear to me. They have obviously fallen foul of the divinity thanks to their appalling desecration of the Garden of Eden. Yet us mere mortals who are hit by the falling angels suffer the financial loss of a wave of cancellations and demand no so human given support. Call that justice!
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Act of God?
April 20th, 2010
One of our clients has declared that the supreme body has intervened in the form of the ash volcanoes of Iceland. For reasons which aren’t really clear to me this means that the client believes they have the right to void the contract they have with us. This places us in a dilemma i.e.:
- Should we seek to verify if the attendees of this conference really can’t attend the conference, in much the same way as an insurance company would seek verification?
- What level of verification should we seek, we simply aren’t geared up for this
- Why should we bear the cost of this cancellation?
- From now on should we charge organisers of events for international events more, commiserate to the increased risk
- Should we try to segment clients according to the likelihood of god intervening in a detrimental way to them and hence to us.
The whole thing is a recipe for madness, we would rather leave god out of it and stick with the untranslatable French ‘ Force Majeure’
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Cavendish Conference Venues announce two major Green Initiatives
February 5th, 2010
Cavendish Conference Venues announce two major Green Initiatives.
We have now moved all our electricity supplies from the Megalith that is EDF albeit on a green tariff (Carbon levy exempt) to Ecotricity. The logic is twofold. Firstly we prefer dealing with smaller companies, EDF professes to have somewhere over 100 000 employees, there is just no human face; it is all about systems and processes. Second, EDF produces both clean and dirty electricity, we prefer to buy from a company who are 100% focused on clean electricity, not an organisation with a foot in both camps.
We have moved our food waste recycling from Paper Round another ancient megalith with the customer service to match. To a much smaller organisation with a composting facility 20miles away from us, as opposed to the 100+ miles round trip the disaster calling itself paper round used. The savings in CO2 emissions are clearly fantastic.
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Sustainable Standards for Conferences and Events – Absolute Chaos
January 28th, 2010
At least 10 standardised ways of measuring the sustainability of a conference event or meeting, could things be more chaotic.
With ISO 20121 being mooted as the new international standard for sustainable events, sitting atop of the domestic standard of ISO 14001, then we have BSI 8901 as a further refinement. Sitting beneath these are a whole host of individual UK government supported measures, Green Tourism Scheme, Green Mark, Hospitality climates etc. Then yet further down the rung you have a series of single issue government schemes run by the various agencies i.e. Envirowise, Carbon Trust, WRAP etc etc.
The cost in terms of time to administer all of this is at tenable for even the largest organisations (I guess that why not one of them has bothered to sign up to them all) The cost to the government to administer this edifice must be staggering.
That’s why so many venues have resorted to their devices. Leading the pack is Cavendish Conference Venues London’s leading supplier of conference and meeting rooms. Who recently announced that they have achieved landfill neutral status, something which has been verified by their recent victory in winning the Visit London 2009/2010.
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Finally a use for Google Wave
January 20th, 2010
We are still playing around with the Google Wave, how exactly we could / should we introduce this into the conferencing arena. What’s for sure is that it is much more than a text-messaging forum, along the lines of the infamous live twitter streams we have used so often at our Cavendish Conference Centre over the last year. Maybe the little wigit introduced by Ribbit enabling teleconferencing in the wave points in to right direction. What this means is that for the first time real time voice and text can be incorporated into the wave and on into some form of presentation for the first time. Combine this with a variety of high capacity lines running over a range of networks and its clear PowerPoint might be the stuff of history, I guess the empire will strike back.
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