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If your attendees come to your meetings bristling with iPads, iPhones, and an assortment of other iTems, you'd best be prepared with plentiful bandwidth and perhaps a few high-tech goodies to make them feel appreciated. Like what, you ask? Here...

This is really more to ask you all for feedback of various types. I'm curious about a few things: ...

I spend a lot of time with continuing medical education providers, but not so much with the meeting planners who make those meetings at which the CME is conducted happen, so it was fascinating to have the chance to sit in on a frank discussion of...

I had been looking forward to this one because, while I'm not sure Richard Saul Wurman's done the world a favor by unleashing a million TED knockoffs (then again, I shouldn't blame him for others piggybacking on an idea that may not be a great fit...

I also went to an interesting session on incorporating product theaters on the trade show floor. It was moderated by John Houghton with the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, who also showed lots of slides of different product theater setups...

Let's face it: Most general sessions are pretty boring. People go expecting to have to suffer a half hour, an hour, some seemingly endless amount of time as the association runs through its business issues and updates, thanks sponsors, etc....

Another great info-chunker is learning evangelist Kathleen Edwards, who is rapidly becoming one of my new favorite meeting design experts. At her 15-minute session at the Learning Pavilion, she had kind of a new year's theme, as in "Out with old...

One big upside of the #PCMA12 experiment with having different time frames for the different sessions is that I could go to one of the regular breakouts for an hour and then feel OK about skipping off to the Learning Lounge for some Really Live...

I've experienced this type of "from the horse's mouth" customer advice session from Sam Lippman's ECEF in the past, and they've been really useful. So I had high hopes for a similar session I went to today, where Bob Priest-Heck of Freeman...