Since 9/11, planners have increasingly become aware of the potential for disaster during meetings, and the potentially disastrous legal issues that could result from their liability for injuries or deaths that happen at their meetings. But they...

The Convention Industry Council announced that it has unanimously approved accepted practices for the first two of the Accepted Practices Exchange initiatives: Terminology and History/Post Event Reports...

When you first meet a reporter, find out as much as you can about what his/her needs are. Some like news releases, some don't. Many reporters don't mind your buying them coffee, others do...

Review the MECC’s Educational Mission Is it compatible with your CME Mission? Does it use language consistent with educational organizations...

Press registration Make it easy and free. You want to encourage journalists to come to your meeting. How else can they report on it...

With women comprising such a large percentage of the meeting planning world, a book to be published this October called Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide, should be a hot read for this industry. Coauthored by Carnegie Mellon...

You are the director of CME in an academic institution and have been asked by a communication company to collaborate on an a educational grant they had recently been promised by one of their pharmaceutical company clients. The timeline on this...

The theme was the dawning of a new age of Aquarius—think the buoyant musical "Hair" circa 1969—and the underlying message was partnerships and professionalism at Meeting Planners International 2003 World Education Congress in San Francisco Aug. 3...

DCI, which has been producing high-tech trade shows for the past 20 years, recently created a new subsidiary for the healthcare industry. According to DCI Health’s managing director Elizabeth Cutler, who formerly served as vice president of the...

Attendance was not off as much as officials had feared at the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives, which was held last week in Honolulu, August 22-26...