What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
Marking its one-year anniversary, the meetings industry listserv called MeCo, short for the Meetings Community, is launching a new feature called Chat Lessons 1.0 for its growing online community...
The Hawai`i Visitors and Convention Bureau and SMG Hawai`i, which manages the Hawai`i Convention Center, have joined forces to launch BusinessAloha.com, a new destination Web site dedicated to meeting planners’ needs in the Hawaiian islands...
They came to town bearing chocolate-covered macadamia nuts and news of the island. Recently three women from Oahu’s tourism industry met with members of the press in Boston to update them on Hawaii happenings of interest to meeting planners and...
Last week Gerard J. “Jordy” Tollett announced that he is resigning his post as president and CEO of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau to “pursue other ventures.” The GHCVB executive committee accepted his offer to serve as a cons...
With my new position as editor of Association Meetings, I no longer will be able to maintain this lovely Capsules blog. Fortunately, there are others out there covering CME and pharma topics better than I. Some of my favorites are...
As you may have heard, I am leaving Medical Meetings to take on a new position as editor of our sister magazine, Association Meetings. While it's a terrific opportunity, the decision to take the job was one of the most difficult I've had to make...
Optimism is Not my strong suit, but in putting together this issue I couldn't help but notice that there's a lot of good news for the CME and medical meetings community. Here are the highlights...
The Professional Meeting Planners Network was mistakenly omitted from the sidebar “Finding Travel Directors,” in the article “On Site, On Call,” which appeared in the December 2006 issue. Based in Durham, N.C., PMPN has provided meeting logistics...
