Working with the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, the International Association of Exhibitions and Events has published a guide to help event organizers—particularly not-for-profit associations—handle today’s H1N1 flu...

I sense the hand of my former editor and ACCME's director of communications, Tamar Hosansky, in the new e-newsletter from ACCME called, not surprisingly, The ACCME Report (link goes to pdf download). ...

We're so used to drug companies paying huge fines and settlements for misdeed when it comes to marketing their drugs that we don't really think much (or at least I hadn't until this morning) about whether or not these settlements do anything to...

Earlier this month, the largest settlement yet levied against a pharmaceutical company for illegal promotion of a drug was settled against Pfizer and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. The $2.3 billion fine sanctioned the pharmaceutical...

BCD Meetings & Incentives has made two strategic moves to strengthen its market position. The company announced the acquisition this week of One World Partners, a Sausalito, Calif., company that specializes in managing incentives, meetings...

With renewed focus on virtual meetings, organizations are looking for ways to use technology to turn large, costly national meetings into more cost-effective regional meetings. But how can they do so successfully without losing the messaging or...

The Convention Industry Council has launched a public messaging task force to improve the image of meetings, the latest industry effort to battle the negative public perception of events and business travel. CIC has hired Y Partnership Inc., a...

Exhibition and conference organizers headed to Amsterdam are now able to link up with Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre for help making their events at the convention center carbon-neutral...