Billing itself as the "first World Wide Web business community for the events industry," Event Source (http://eventsource.com) was launched in April on the World Wide Web by DirectSource Communications and the International Association of...

GRAND OPENING OF SALT PALACE CENTER By Patricia Wargocki The opening of the newly expanded Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City was marked with a four-day celebration for the grand opening of the facility, including fireworks, folk...

The largest enclosed shopping and entertainment complex in America has become a destination in its own right. The Mall of America in Bloomington, MN has recently added UnderWater World, a 1.2-million-gallon interactive, multisensory aquarium and...

More than 800 association executives and vendors turned out for the second annual technology conference of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), cosponsored by MCI and the Nasdaq Stock Market. It was a mind-boggling display of...

The growth of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) as an international organization was a recurring theme of the fourth annual Professional Education Conference (PEC) in Lyon, France in May. The organization has achieved truly global status...

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Training for procedures carried out by nurses and other medical professionals is also being computerized. Beginning last fall, for example, nursing students at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh began using software from High...

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When the new executive director and secretary of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) says he wants to have dialog with accredited CME sponsors, take him at his word: Murray Kopelow, MD, logged thousands of miles this...

Just Opened In May, Portland, OR's new Fifth Avenue Suites Hotel opened downtown with 82 guest rooms, 135 550-square-foot suites, and four grand suites. The property is being constructed in the 1912 Lipman Wolfe building, most recently a...