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.
Hard to believe that 2010 is in full swing. (Wasn’t it just the holidays?) Lots on the plate for this column: cool search ideas, a few industry tech tidbits (would those be techbits?), and a bit of social media, too...
I've been a big fan of Don Moore, PhD, professor of Medical Education and Administration and director of Continuing Medical Education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, since I met him at the first CME Leadership conference held back in...
The Motivation Show, held annually at McCormick Place in Chicago, has suffered declining exhibitor and visitor numbers, especially on the Incentive Travel & Meeting Executives side. But organizers are making changes, responding to opinions of...
Being a lightning rod gives one a heady, slightly edgy sensation. After last week’s column, I had an almost physical sense of the energy flowing through the MeetingsNet Web site, as colleagues debated the merits of a conference keynote who was...
President Obama is expected to sign in to law within the next week or so the Travel Promotion Act, landmark legislation designed to create 40,000 new travel-industry jobs and attract 1.6 million more international visitors to the United States...
A keynote speaker at Meeting Professionals International's MeetDifferent 2010 has been generating sparks from bloggers who followed the conference, not because of his message, but for the way he delivered it...
Can you imagine if the rest of the world were to be held to the same standards of disclosure that the CME community is held to? What if, say, members of the Senate Finance Committee had to disclose all ties they have to any companies that could be...
