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DRIP, DRIP, DRIP. Hear that? That's the sound of your destination management company's profit line draining away. The business of DMCs (providing the local staff and expertise to make your transfers, tours, dine-arounds, and off-site parties a...

CELEBRATING A RECORD ATTENDANCE of more than 2,700 at the Professional Education Conference in San Diego in January, Meeting Professionals International had a lot to crow about, having achieved some major accomplishments over the past 12 months...

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MEDICAL MEETING PLANNERS understand the value of education. After all, we spend the majority of our working weeks planning and implementing events that provide educational benefit to healthcare professionals. But how many of us invest time and...

WHEN I INTERVIEWED meeting industry veteran Mickey Schaefer, CAE, American Academy of Family Physicians, for the first installment in our series profiling women leaders in the medical meetings and CME professions, she said that her most important...

A NUMBING AND eerie experience. That's how Kim Davis describes losing her position as director of research and education at the Academy of Medicine in New Jersey a year before the company folded in June 2003. After working in the CME field since...

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IF YOU'VE FOLLOWED this series so far, your CME unit has made assessing learner knowledge and performance improvement an important part of how you gauge the performance of your overall CME program. You're measuring the degree to which activity...

A new certification program focusing on the business of planning meetings was among several new initiatives announced at the American Society of Association Executives' annual meeting and exposition, held August 14 to 17 at the Minneapolis...