Weigh in on ACCME’s New Commendation Criteria

Jan 14, 2016

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education has issued a call for public comment about its proposal for a menu of new criteria for Accreditation with Commendation. CME providers and other concerned stakeholders have until February...

AMEX Launches Pharma Meetings App

Jan 14, 2016

American Express Meetings and Events has launched a new meetings app designed to help pharmaceutical companies comply with the transparency regulations required for their meetings involving healthcare professionals. The app, which is powered by t...

Breaking Conference Boundaries With Convening Leaders

Jan 11, 2016

“Cultivating Creative Moments” is the theme of this year’s Convening Leaders conference, the annual meeting of the Professional Convention Management Association, taking place at the Vancouver Convention Centre through January 13...

New Meeting Industry Educational Roadshow Coming this Spring

Jan 11, 2016

The Convention Industry Council, Meetings Mean Business, and event software provider Social Tables have partnered to launch Fuse 2016, an educational roadshow. The five-city event, designed to bring meeting planners and suppliers together to find...

Meetings Are Due for Disruption, Say PCMA and Marriott

Jan 11, 2016

Already tired of 2016 meeting trends articles? Keep reading...

Meetings Podcast: Eric Rozenberg on the Challenge Found in Every Event

Jan 11, 2016

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS In this week's Meetings Podcast, Grass Shack Events and Media's Mike McAllen talks with Eric Rozenberg, an entrepreneur who specializes in strategy execution and helpi...

10,000 Reasons Why Twitter Will Still Be Awesome in 2016

Jan 11, 2016

Have you heard? There’s a rumor showing up in social media feeds everywhere that Twitter is planning to increase the character limit for tweets from 140 to 10,000. The Twittersphere is abuzz, and I can understand why: It’s hard to...

Using Micro-Learning for Conference Innovation

Jan 06, 2016

Many conference organizers are jumping on the micro-learning bandwagon as a silver bullet for innovating their conference education. They believe that the next generation conference participants have short attention spans and prefer these formats...

Marriott, Don't Take My Desk!

Jan 05, 2016

When I heard that Marriott, in an attempt to better meet Millennials' needs, decided to experiment with doing away with formal desks in some of its guest rooms, I have to admit my heart sank a little. I get that we're all more mobile now, that we...

Meetings Podcast: Meet Will Curran, Information Junkie

Jan 04, 2016

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Will's favorite quotationGrass Shack Events and Media's Mike McAllen has the pleasure of speaking with Will Curran of Endless Entertainment. Will has been re...