Conway Commons Conference Center

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Do you play bingo?

17 places to play Bingo that you may not have known about

Bingo is a powerful entity, especially for--but not limited to--those in their twilight years. It is a way to gamble lightly without the potential risk of betting the deed to your house. Bingo is not just relegated to VFW halls either, as there are a handful of locations that have their games hosted by very funny and dazzling drag queens. There are plenty of places that host a Bingo game once in a while, but these are some locations that have games more…

‘I do.’ Rules relax on weddings as catering hall capacity increase to 150 people

Starting today, catering halls can operate at 50% capacity, and maximum guest capacity has increased to 150.

The common Italian food myths you need to stop believing

There are a few Italian food myths we need to put right.

Beer Experts Say These Are The 20 Best Beers In The World

Stanford TK calculated that expert users on RateBeer rated these 20 beers the best in the world.

Top 30 Wedding Food Bars You’ll Love

[tps_header] A food bar is a necessary thing at any wedding, so let’s see how you can decorate it and what food you are going to give to your guests. Everything

5 Signs and Symptoms You Need a Banquet Hall for Your Event

More and more people are opting for "cozy events" rather than full-on receptions. Having your wedding/birthday party/quinceanera or any other big event in your backyard close to home does sound more personable and less institutional than renting a banquet hall or rental space.

Do Your Meeting Rooms Need to Be Modernized?

Discover how to transform your conference rooms and huddle spaces into productive meeting rooms with modern video, audio and web conferencing.

13 Design Ideas for Meeting Rooms

The right meeting room environment can encourage collaboration and creative thinking, whether it's through standout decor, a unique format, or interesting activity options.

How To Make Meeting Rooms The Heart of Your Digital Workplace

In today's modern workplace, with on-site and remote workers, meeting rooms need to be at the heart of your digital workplace.

What The Commons Stands For

Read the community responses to our questions, “What do you stand for? What does your art stand for?”

Turning Libraries Into Learning Commons

The library space should be three things: welcoming, comfortable, and useful.

Will Native Advertising Be A Tragedy Of The Commons?

One thing can be said definitively about native advertising: It is poorly understood. It’s advertising, but shouldn’t act like it (even though it should definitely be labeled as such). It’s like advertorials, but also far more than that – just as media sites are more than web newspapers. The media world loves it and loathes …

Learning to See the Commons

[[Generations of propaganda about the instability of “the commons” and the desirability of assigning property rights in everything has led the human race into a very dark place: now, tw…

Creative Commons License Chooser

Add-on that will help users select a Creative Commons license and then embed the image and license link in the document.

The benefits of Creative Commons

Raise your profile and reputation: Sharing your work through your learning networks increases your visibility and presence online. The risk of someone sharing your work without attribution is far smaller than your resultant obscurity if you lock it away<br>Collaboration and creativity: Sharing your work enables other to remix and recreate it in different ways. This process sparks creativity and innovation and may in turn lead…

Building a new social commons

VCU Academic Learning Commons

The VCU Academic Learning Commons provides a student “hub” with a variety of classroom sizes to serve the widest range of subjects and teaching approaches.

How Public Schools Suffer from the Tragedy of the Commons

The problem with public education has always been and always will be that those who ostensibly own the schools—i.e. “the community"—actually own little to none of them.