We must save MyMeetingSpace.com!

'Sure, I've heard of MyMeetingSpace.com ... I think.'

Well, no you haven't. You may of heard of MySpace.com or Microsoft's Live Meeting but not MyMeetingSpace.com.

Unless, of course, you were one of 70 post-graduate, international exchange students at an Information Management seminar in midtown Manhattan recently. Expecting the same old lecture, students found themselves at a launch event for a new company. Moreover, they were were no longer students but consultants competing for a new gig.

In the midst of a multimedia introduction--alternately filled with extravagant predictions of success and rumblings of financial improprieties--a stalward school administrator announces that a volcano has erupted right around the corner. The company's president brings up a web-enabled monitor of the company's information systems confirming that all is well for the company...so far. The fate of the participants is not so clear. He manages to bring up a video stream confirming the worst: a river of lava is headed their way (see videos--first, second).

Suddenly, FEMA's new director Bobby D. Brown bursts into the room with the official FEMA Volcano Survival Kit. (He's with the government and he's here to help!) Unfortunately budget cutbacks have limited the effectiveness of the Kit's contents--although it's true that the included pound of lard is more than just a week's worth of food--it's up to the 'consultants' to discover the best means of survival. Even as the participants struggle to survive another challenge is soon to rear its ugly head.

The executives continue with their introduction of the company's completely automated information management systems when suddenly the monitoring systems start to flash red--lava has melted the server farm! What's more, it seems the company has cut corners by forgoing any backup systems. Again, management turns to the consultants to help.

A satellite feed is established with the company's recluse CEO--the enigmatic British fop Sir Ronald Trompe L'oeul--and the consulting teams compete to save the company, and fix MyMeetingSpace.com's horrendous tagline 'Let's Get Meety!' Judges select the best, rewards are presented and consultants head out into the lava-filled night.

Rogue Camera Crew Seeks Volcano Survivors

I'm gonna need a Venti for this one!

We report ... You decide!

But there already is a volcano at 42nd and 5th!!



















There is something truly odd going on up in he-ye!!