You've got a keen insight into selecting speakers. Your budget doesn't. Would it help if you had a couple hundred dollars extra to give to each speaker? Or for a large event, maybe a couple thousand bucks? I propose it would be in your best interest to start working with Flattr now.

If a certain speaker is greatly appreciated by the audience, Flattr enables your delegates to decide how much money to give them. We're not talking about charging your attendees more to participate in your event; we're talking a very democratic system to reward the speakers (and even peers) that add the most value to an event.

This is but one possibility when meetings and events embrace Flattr, the microfunding platform co-founded by Linus Olsson.

Read our November story about Flattr and Olsson with the official One+ iPad and Android tablet apps or grab this PDF.

What can Angry Birds teach meeting professionals about event design? Andrea Driessen took a shot at answering this age-old question in the October tablet-exclusive issue of One+.

If you're living life sans iPad or Android tablet, you can now check out her awesome article. If you're living in tablet bliss, make sure to install the MPI One+ app--it's free, it's sharp and once downloaded there's no Internet connection necessary, so you can read it on a plane or on the moon!

Image: "Angry Jay" (CC) Noël Zia Lee

Born out of the desire to share multiple photos from a smartphone at once--especially for use while at conferences and special events--Clark Wimberly, from the Android and Me tech site, developed the light-weight Photobooth app.

Photobooth allows users to easily (and without the addition of goofy, unnecessary special effects found on other apps) combine photos into a single file, just like a strip of pictures from those old school, real-life photo booths (anyone remember those?).

And better yet, Photobooth is free (right now, at least). Maybe future releases will somehow include a video component?

Anyhow, check out the awesome Photobooth app video below if you're confused or simply need some amusement.

Andrew Freeman & Co. has released their list of predicted trends for hotels, spas and restaurants in 2012. Maybe they'll become or strengthen trends, such as that of local F&B as elucidated in the One+ November tablet edition exclusive (get the Android and iPad apps here--they're free!)

Either way, the hospitality company has served up an appetizing, if sometimes odd, mix of F&B trends. Here are five entries that caught my stomach's eye.

Grilled cheese the new hamburger? We think so. Restaurants devote special evenings or entire menus to this childhood favorite loved by kids of all ages. From fast-casual to high end, expect more restaurants to develop their own signature sandwiches. Example: Ham and Cheese Grilled Sandwich at Melt (San Francisco)

Move over carrot cake, cutting-edge pastry chefs are turning vegetables into sweet finales. Example: Goat Cheese with Celery, Fig Agrodolce and Celery Sorbetto at Del Posto (New York)

Indian street foods will gain popularity as fans flock to food trucks, pop-ups and quick-service restaurants selling fast, fresh, spicy Indian fare. Look for Kati Rolls, Puri with sauces and condiments, or “Pav” sandwiches with spiced vegetables. Example: Aloo Tikka Chaat-Potato Cakes from Bombay Bowl (Denver)

Breakfast is the new dinner. Everyone loves brunch and breakfast foods. Restaurants are re-interpreting breakfast for lunch, dinner and late night menus. Waffle sandwiches, savory turnovers, eggs in any manner of ways, pigs in a blanket, hollandaise topped sandwiches and French toast or bread pudding served either sweet or savory. Example: Bruxie Gourmet Waffle Sandwiches (Orange, California)

Specialty chili peppers are heating things up. Middle Eastern Aleppo Pepper, African Piri Piri or the incendiary Indian Ghost Pepper (see image) is spicing up menus near and far. Example: Indian Ghost Pepper Sauce on Naan at New Delhi (San Francisco)

Chocolate fountains are ridiculous, potentially sloppy and somehow, sometimes luxurious. Are you ready to consider a fountain flowing with Italian dressing, mustard, mayo or ketchup? Me either.

For legitimate food & beverage trends in the meeting and event industry, download the One+ Android or iPad app and read this month's digital exclusive coverage of what's hot in group consumables.

Check out more photos from the food life of Yunjung Alice.

Storytelling is a proven method by which to effectively share information. It sees apt implementation by professionals involved in designing events and all manner of communications, such as advertising and PR, natch. (Read the One+ value of storytelling feature, "Once Upon a Time...")

Kyoto, Japan, is now leveraging the power of storytelling combined with the popularity of mobile apps, reports The Asahi Shimbun. The Novel Navi iPhone app guides users to the real-life settings featured in a variety of stories. Prompted due to news stories of fans making pilgrimages to renowned novel and anime destination, a council to promote flower tourism worked with the Kyoto prefectural government, Ritsumeikan University and local businesses to create the app.

To paraphrase Walt Disney, it seems to me we have a lot of story about storytelling yet to tell. Stay tuned to One+ for more on storytelling at meetings and events.

I don't normally support or promote phone apps that are only for iPhones. Until there's Android availability, the app is dead to me. However, Word Lens is one kick-butt app, and for that I'm softening my stance. 

Word Lens instantly translates printed words from one language (currently Spanish to English and vice versa) to another with your built-in video camera. Download it for free from the iTunes app store; however, the language dictionaries cost US$4.99 each. 

Android smart phone users unable to find the perfect app among the Market's extensive offerings are now one step closer to making their own apps. Well, anyone has always been permitted to do this, but now you don't even need to be a geek to app things up in your style.

Google recently announced their App Inventor program has been in test stages in educational settings for a year now. And it's still in test stage, but you can request an invitation to the program...you know, if you're all 1337...or I guess even if you're not. If the App Inventor works effectively, we can all be app developers. It's like a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) HTML editor, but for developing Android apps.

Of course, this will significantly boost the number of Android apps out there...and increase the number the Big G can boast about. In the past few months, the number of Android apps on the Market has jumped from 30,000 to nearly 70,000. Once everyone with an Android phone will have the capability to create their own apps, that number should skyrocket. Most of the existing apps (for Apple and Android) are crap--there aren't 10,000 essential programs that we all need on our phones)--but gold will follow the App Inventor.

I can't wait to see the customized apps that meeting and event professionals create...

Now, go sign up for an invitation.