Rachel Wimberly

Talking Back to TalkBack

If you look at the tab for blogs right above all of our smiling faces on the homepage of the Tradeshow Week Web site, there’s another tab next to it that more and more people are starting to utilize – our TalkBack section.

Yes, folks, this is your golden opportunity to comment online about each and every article that we write. Taking a look at all the postings recently, our readers aren’t holding back.

When we announced that the Natl. Assn. for the Specialty Food Trade was canceling its Spring/Midwest Intl. Fancy Food & Confection Show in Chicago next year, “Chicago Fancy Food Show Canceled,” an exhibitor piped up, saying it had stopped going to the San Francisco edition because, quite simply, the show had gotten too expensive.

“Pulvermedia Pulls a Disappearing Act” had some interesting comments after the company folded one day, and everybody who worked there seemed to disappear into thin air. One reader asked how he might get back the money he had spent on exhibit space at a show that didn’t exist anymore. Another reader helpfully offered the name and address of the private equity firm that had invested in, and then allegedly seized, pulvermedia. I still say good luck getting your money back.

An innocent article about two exhibit-related companies, “Nimlok, Imageworks Tie the Knot,” sparked a myriad of negative comments about how Nimlok runs its business, with others defending it. We even had to take a few objectionable posts down.

Just to clarify, comments in the TalkBack section do not represent the views of Tradeshow Week in any way, shape or form, but they’re still interesting to read for some insight on what our readers are thinking.

Posted by Rachel Wimberly on July 7, 2008 | Comments (0)