AS YOU PROBABLY read in “No Time for CME,” Medical Meetings, January/February issue, young physicians are emerging as a whole new category of learners. They have different styles, different preferences, and a wide range of participation levels...

The goal is straightforward: The meeting industry needs to communicate via computer. To that end, APEX — the Convention Industry Council's project to develop industrywide accepted practices — has a technology component: The APEX Technology...

THE BEAUTY OF A LIVE EVENT is in the interactions among the attendees, speakers, exhibitors, and even sponsors. The planner's challenge is to capture that spirit and keep it alive across a longer timeline. While conference CD-ROMs and official Web...

FEW WOULD ARGUE that milling about at coffee breaks or walking aisles of eager exhibitors is the most efficient way to network. Yet that's the business model. Lanyards around our necks, business cards at the ready, we work the sessions, the booths...

Few would argue that milling about at coffee breaks or walking endless aisles of eager exhibitors are the most efficient ways of networking. Yet that's the business model. Lanyards around our necks, business cards at the ready, we work the...

The digital, interactive badge nTAG, which earned top honors in EIBTM's 2003 Worldwide Watch (see 2004 winners, left), has been named a preferred supplier by one of the country's leading independent meeting planning companies, Cleveland-based...

Every Web site — including meeting sites — must hit five “emotional points” to ensure that it makes an emotional connection that will engage users and make them more likely to buy what you are selling. So says Philippa Gamse, a Web expert and...

PART OF THE frustration of spending so much time and energy to create the perfect conference is felt when the curtain comes down and the show is over. All that work to create a meaningful connection with our attendees, but only for a fleeting...

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Technology consultant Corbin Ball, CMP, has made a career out of connecting the dots for meeting professionals. His latest project is a report on the tech tools available to help companies with their strategic meeting management initiatives, such...