We were going to use a fiberoptic land line to handle the video transmission, but there was a nursing strike the week before the conference, and the cable installers wouldn't cross the picket line. So we brought in a truck with a dish and bounced...

The Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) has appointed William J. Myers, CAE, CMP, formerly vice president and convention manager of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), as its chief operating officer, a newly created...

The long-awaited Delta addition to the Opryland Hotel Convention Center in Nashville arrived on June 1, right on time. Some 3.7 million room-nights are already contracted through the year 2013 at what is now the world's largest hotel/convention...

Can you imagine thousands of cadaveric specimens in a convention hall? Of course not, and neither could the American Urological Association (AUA). Instead of using specimens, urologists at the 1994 meeting in San Francisco practiced in virtual...

Anna Lee Chabot, director of meetings and assemblies for the Ottawa-based, Royal College, Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, is the new president-elect for Meeting Professionals International (MPI). When she assumes the presidency in the summer of...

HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS Thomas R. Schedler, CAE, has been appointed executive director of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, based in Park Ridge, IL. Most recently, Schedler was president of Schedler and Associates, a management...

Anna Lee Chabot, director of meetings and assemblies for the Ottawa-based Royal College, Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, is the new president-elect for Meeting Professionals International (MPI). When she assumes the presidency in the summer of...

Eleven months before the Second Annual Conference of the Association of Cautious Educators (ACE), its planning committee is meeting for the first time. The association broke even on its first four-day national event with a registration fee of $210...

When 4,000 attendees converge in Boston in August for the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), they will sample a generous slice of the best the city has to offer: an opening reception in historic Copley Square...

The long-awaited Delta addition to the Opryland Hotel Convention Center in Nashville arrived on June 1, right on time. Some 3.7 million room-nights are already contracted through the year 2013 at what is now the world's largest hotel/convention...