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.
View of the Pennsylvania Convention CenterIn a move that came as a surprise to the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board last week reversed its dismissal of complaints by the Metropolitan Regional Cou...
If only your body clock was as easy to reset as your alarm. As anyone who has flown through a few time zones knows, it’s not. We’ve gathered some tried, true, and new ideas for managing jet lag. Is it all about pre-planning? An in-flight dose of ...
While convention and visitors bureaus (also known as destination marketing organizations) provide informational, logistical, and other services that meeting and event planners traditionally expect, these entities have stepped up their game to...
I just checked out something called Crystal, a site that can profile anyone who has an online presence, then tell you how you can best communicate with that person. Kind of like Myers-Briggs or the PACE Color Palette only fast, automated, and no ...
Reed Expositions introduced AIBTM: The Americas Meetings and Events Exhibition, in 2011, holding the annual hosted-buyer event and trade show in Baltimore, Orlando, and Chicago. For 2015 Reed has totally revamped its model. The renamed ibtm ameri...
Laurie Kendall-Ellis, CAE, the Alliance’s new executive directorIn a recent letter to members, the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Healthcare Professions President Ed Dellert, RN, MBA, CHCP, announced that the ACEhp board of directors ha...
If your marketing spend is greater than six percent of your direct conference expenses, your fan base and positive word of mouth (WOM) marketing are lacking. Authentic WOM marketing, received from a trusted colleague, is hands down the most...
Hospitality and travel suppliers who work with meeting professionals planned to celebrate April 22, Earth Day 2015, in style. Here's what some of your partners were up to...
Healthcare compliance author Pat Shaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC, has teamed up with mobile event app company BusyEvent Mobile to develop an online tool for healthcare meetings professionals, compliance officers, and legal and financial teams at ...
