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.
The Brussels-based Union of International Associations has just released its International Meeting Statistics report for the year 2009. UIA has conducted research, monitoring, and information-gathering on international organizations, international...
Though international travel to the United States was up 15 percent in the first two months of 2010 over the same period in 2009, it will take a lot more positive news to reverse a 10-year downward trend, characterized as the “lost decade” by Roger...
As images of spreading oil plumes, devastated Gulf Coast communities, and dead seabirds fill our TV screens, it’s easy to warp back and forth between a sense of futility and an urge to assign responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe...
This may sound like a no-brainer, but it's really not: Are you trying to disseminate information, or provide education, through your activities? Check out this post by Jeff Hurt. I was reminded of one of the final sessions at GAME on Tuesday, when...
Every time I heard the latest CEJA report mentioned at the GAME meeting this week in Montreal, it was accompanied by head shakes and groans. And of course, Dr. Stossel practically snorted in disgust at the thought of the most recent iteration, and...
The more I hear about this year's ASCO conference, the more interesting it sounds ("interesting" as in the old curse, "may you live in interesting times"). Just came across this: Free latte for oncologists? Not without disclosure. Seems that docs...
It’s all about the leads. That’s the word from a new survey of 500 technology industry marketing professionals, conducted for Unisfair, a Menlo Park, Calif.–based virtual events platform. More than two thirds of respondents (68 percent) said leads...
