June 1, 2005 MM

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TAKE CHARGE

The pharmaceutical industry is a laboratory for best practices in meeting planning, said Christine Duffy, president and CEO, Maritz Travel Co., St. Louis,...

Checkup

The Power of Partnership

WHEN I STOOD at the lectern to make my opening remarks at the First Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum this spring and looked across the meeting...

Feedback

Letters to the Editor

An Unacceptable Marketing Tool? Dear Editor: In my view, your writing in The Positive Side of Cognitive Dissonance March/April 2005 issue, that it is...

CME

N.J. Mandates Cultural-Competency Training

IN LATE MARCH, New Jersey's Acting Governor Richard J. Codey signed legislation requiring that physicians take cultural-competency training in order to...

The Cost of Compliance

THE CME DOLLAR is regularly stretched to support activity planning, development, and implementation. On occasion, components of an event are compromised...

CME: Five-Year Forecast

THE CME WE WILL see in five years is not at all what we see today. Commercial supporters are becoming more selective. And we see other important changes...

Big Plans, Big Picture

AFTER 10 YEARS of attending Pharmaceutical Alliance for CME meetings at the Alliance for CME annual conference, Maureen Doyle-Scharff, director, professional...

Meeting Management

INDEPENDENTS' VIEW

Behind closed doors, the attendees of the Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum broke into three groups: corporate in-house pharma planners, independent...

Pharma Forum Faces Planner Issues

PLANNING THE FIRST annual anything involves a little optimism and a lot of work, as any medical meeting planner knows. Given the overwhelming response...

KSL Launches Pharma Training

If we book a resort, I can lose my job. That's what a pharma meeting planner told Michael T. Aylmer, senior director, pharmaceutical sales, KSL Resorts,...

Lowest Rates

CLAUSE: HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? Hotel will not offer any sleeping room rates lower than the negotiated Group rates over Group meeting dates unless the lower...

Double the Meetings, Double the Fun

TWO MEETING PLANNING groups combined shows to gain several advantages getting better deals with venues, marketing to exhibitors more efficiently, and...

Say Yes to ROI

MEASUREMENT OF THE effectiveness of meetings is rapidly becoming a required step in the meeting management process for industry professionals. While there...

Stop Those Surcharges!

Barbara Mastroddi was recently surprised by a new add-on fee while planning a breakfast meeting. On the hotel's menu for continental-style breakfasts,...

Sites & Venues

RESORTS

THIS COMING FALL, Sandia Resort & Casino will open a greatly expanded facility 10 minutes north of Albuquerque, N.M.'s, international airport. A new hotel...

Ritz-Carlton, South Beach

IN THE HEART of Miami Beach's Art Deco District with its own private beach frontage the restored Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, at One Lincoln Road, is just...

Turtle Bay Resort

TALK ABOUT A room with a view. Perched at the northern tip of Oahu on Kuilima Point, the Turtle Bay Resort offers views of some of the most spectacular...

Mystic, Conn.

For many of you who grew up in or around New York City, you'll associate dull school field trip with Mystic, Conn. Well, think dull no more: Tucked into...

Second Opinion

PC or not PC?

HOW DO YOU distinguish between being politically correct and professionally competent? asked one person I interviewed for the article about New Jersey's...

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