New Frontiers in Meeting Menus
Americans eat to live, Europeans live to eat. Until recently, this snipe at our fast-food culture was fairly accurate. But today, growing ranks of ordinary...
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ASAE to Launch Certification Program for Senior-Level Planners...
Assess Your Knowledge
PCMA develops core competencies for planners....
Proving Meetings' Economic Impact
IACVB publishes new delegate spending study....
Delivering Exhibitor ROI
Report from the Exhibition and Convention Exetuvies Forum...
Climate of Disclosure
How Sarbanes-Oxley affects associations...
ACCME Board of Directors Gives Thumbs-up to New Standards
In a unanimous vote last week, the Accreditation Council for CME Board of Directors voiced its approval for the new revision of the Standards for Commercial...
Speak Out--ACCME: Show Us the Data
The Accreditation Council for CME’s policy is to share the list of accredited providers achieving exemplary compliance and the areas in which the highest...
Chaminade Wows Women’s Conference
As one of the designers for W2W, an invitation-only pilot program for 32 women in the meetings industry, held in March, I had never really worked with...
Chaminade Wows Women’s Conference
As one of the designers for W2W, an invitation-only pilot program for 32 women in the meetings industry, held in March, I had never really worked with...
MM Co-sponsors CME/Pharma Conference
As you all know, new and forthcoming regulations are fueling dramatic changes in pharmaceutical companies’ procedures for funding CME and planning meetings....
As you all know, new and forthcoming regulations are fueling dramatic changes in pharmaceutical companies’ procedures for funding CME and planning meetings....
Schering-Plough Shaves Meeting Costs with Online Auctions
In order to find the best vendors to handle the 1,300 meetings it holds each year, Schering-Plough Corp. now uses online reverse auctions. These are fixed-duration...
Bowers Lands Top Job at CCTB
Christopher Bowers recently was named chief executive officer of the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau. Bowers, who’s lived in Chicago his entire...
Surviving the ACCME Survey
Undergoing a survey for Accreditation Council for CME accreditation can be a daunting task. Just ask Wanda Johnson, CMP, senior director, meetings and...
Commercial Support Gets Even Tougher
The increasing difficulty of obtaining commercial support in the new regulatory environment, the explosive growth in MECCs, and other CME provider dilemmas...
People on the Move
Sue Ann Capizzi has joined the Woods Development Institute in Oak Park, Ill., as vice president, strategy and operations. WDI produces leadership and...
APEX Forging Ahead
The Convention Industry Council announced that it has unanimously approved accepted practices for the first two of the Accepted Practices Exchange initiatives:...
New Program Accredits Hotel Safety
Since 9/11, planners have increasingly become aware of the potential for disaster during meetings, and the potentially disastrous legal issues that could...
Laptops in the Lecture Hall
The more than 500 physicians who attended the Vascular Interventional Advances Conference in October at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas...
IACC Starts Inspection Program
The International Association of Conference Centers is launching a third-party facility-inspection program, IACC president Geoff Lawson announced last...
Farewell to an Industry Friend
Gary Pugatch, director of resort marketing for the Sea Pines Co. on Hilton Head Island, died of a heart attack on Friday, November 7. He was 48. Prior...
Master Your Media Message
When you first meet a reporter, find out as much as you can about what his/her needs are. Some like news releases, some don't. Many reporters don't mind...
PR Basics—Top Tools for Media Success
Press registration Make it easy and free. You want to encourage journalists to come to your meeting. How else can they report on it? Media alert This...
Review Process for a MECC Educational Partner
Review the MECC’s Educational Mission Is it compatible with your CME Mission? Does it use language consistent with educational organizations? Document...
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