Once upon a time, meeting attendees had pretty minimal meal choices—generally chicken or beef, and if they didn’t like it, they ate around it or got their meals outside of the ballroom. But the plates were cleared long ago on those simple meal ch...
Even Mango is sick of being up to her neck in the white stuff.I rejoiced this morning when I looked at the thermometer and saw it was 24 degrees out—heat wave! Then I looked again and it was actually 2.4 degrees. Sigh. It takes me longer to don m...
Meeting Professionals International has partnered with Destination Marketing Association International to incorporate DMAI’s Destination Finder into its Web site, MPIweb.org. The free tool, which is powered by DMAI’s empowerMINT.com, provides des...
Recently, the American Board of Internal Medicine suspended aspects of its maintenance of certification program and apologized after many internists and medical specialty societies raised concerns that it was a waste of time and money...
One of the many reasons I love the good folks at the Meetings Community (aka MeCo) listserv is the way they freely share information and resources. Here are a couple of online space calculators they shared recently that can help you figure out wh...
Everyone wants ubiquitous, free Wi-Fi in their meeting headquarters hotel, but sometimes it can be harder to find than Waldo. That's why I found this worldwide hotel Wi-Fi infographic from Tourism Review so fascinating—it details which countries'...
Food prices are going up, which means that your flat F&B budget isn’t flat at all—it’s going down. But take heart. Hotel and resort chefs want to give you the impact you expect, even if they have to pull out all their special...
Students, physicians, scientists, software designers, and business execs gather at Tufts to reinvent the state of medical education.
