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It sounds like Miami is moving on, post-Wilma. Even though the power is still out in some areas, the airport is open, the mandatory curfew is lifted, and the New Cardiovascular Horizons Conference, which had be relocated to Miami from New Orleans...

Courtesy of hotel-online: Miami Hotels Take Steps Toward Recovery; Locals, Utility Crews, Cleanup Crews Taking Thousands of Rooms.

Sorry for the quietude lately—I was at the American Medical Association's Task Force on Continuing Medical Education/Industry Collaboration in Baltimore all week, then today was out trying to learn how to use our new publishing software. Lots to...

The Public Relations Society of America had to pull its show out of the Fontainebleau, and Fort Lauderdale Boat Show is rescheduled, and that's just the beginning of the meetings-relate damage hurricane Wilma is causing before she even reaches...

You, like me, may be able to tolerate people who cut in front of us in line at the grocery store. We can toss junk mail without too much angst, and ignore loud cellphone yakkers (OK, I fail on the last one), but if you know of someone who lets...

The beautiful suburban New York Garden City Hotel, where we've held our sales meetings the past couple of years, got a surprise when "a former employee ran into a ballroom lobby wearing a gas mask, spilled a suspicious yellow liquid on the floor...

Is your organization one of the many now considering adding a blog to improve communications with members or to enhance a convention? If so, I say great, go for it—but don't count on your blog making much money through advertising or sponsorship...

Wicked Wilma, which last I checked was still a category 4 hurricane, is bearing down on Cozumel and Cancun. I can't help but wonder how many resources Mexico has at the moment, after hurricane Stan's recent devastation to the south. It's unclear...

While he puts it much more nicely in this Fast Company Now post, I think Adam Hanft is onto something: A little silence could go a long way toward making a meeting more productive. As he says...