Leonard “Buck” Hoyle, CAE, CMP, a 36-year veteran of the association and meetings industry, passed away on Saturday, July 17, after a brief battle with prostate cancer. He was 71. Hoyle was best known as the chief staff executive of Hospitality...
Cvent, a McLean, Va.–based event technology provider, has released a major upgrade to its online request for proposal tool, the Cvent Supplier Network. Major changes include the option for meeting planners to send hotels a stripped-down request f...
One of the lasting lessons of the recent economic crash is that no meeting should expect to survive if it can’t demonstrate its value. The multimillion-dollar question is whether we know how to track and report that value in a way that makes sense...
Cisco Systems, the San Jose, Calif.–based technology giant, has announced plans to market its suite of collaborative communications tools to the events industry...
Check out this video by Medical Meetings columnist and president of Global Education Group Stephen Lewis, who points out a bright side of the otherwise fairly dismal information in the 2009 ACCME data report: ...
The good folks over at Policy and Medicine have put together a handy chart of companies that disclose their educational grant payments for 2009 and 2010.
The “ACCME Annual Report Data 2009” shows that the total amount of commercial support offered to accredited CME providers has dropped for the second consecutive year.
I read an interesting editorial in yesterday's Boston Globe about Massachusetts' $250,000 academic detailing pilot program, and I can't help but be a tad impressed by it. I know a few years ago there was a lot of talk, if not action, around...
Federal authorities have brought charges against four individuals in the slaying of meeting planner Ben Novack—including his wife. Novack, the owner of Convention Concepts Unlimited, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was found dead in his hotel room in Rye...
There's been lots of talk lately on the CME LinkedIn group about the need for someone, anyone, to take the lead in advocating the value of continuing medical education. ...
