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 opening session at the 2015 Pharma Forum conference, being held this week at the Gaylord National in National Harbor, Md., is taking a different tack from past years’ openers. Instead of focusing on the latest in rules and regulations...
From birth to our first formal education experience in pre-school or kindergarten, we learn mostly through observation, exploration, and experience. We watch our parents and siblings and learn how (or how not) to do something. We explore, using...
“We believe 2015 is shaping up to be a great year for the meetings industry," says Ted Davis, chief sales and marketing officer for Benchmark Resorts & Hotels, a division of Benchmark Hospitality International. Along with strong...
Sally Allen, executive producer, The Water CoolersToday's guest blog is by Sally Allen, executive producer of The Water Coolers, a singing comedy act that is, and I quote, "a cross between The Office, The Capitol Steps, and Modern Family" (for a ...
In 2012, I became my organization’s social media manager, combining my experience in meeting management with my studies in interactive media. To many, this seemed like a departure from a career path on which I’d traveled for more than...
I just heard from this article via the Meetings Community (MeCo) listserv that the Environmental Protection Agency is putting $15,000 toward developing a wireless system that will track how long guests take in the shower. The idea, according to t...
Ashfield Meetings and Events is adding a new office in San Bruno, Calif., to complement its existing offices in Ivyland, Pa., and Indianapolis. The full-service global meeting management company, which specializes in serving the healthcare sector...
Do your attendees ride a rollercoaster of emotions throughout your event, enjoying the bubbly personality of your keynote speaker one minute, then smelling the reek of failure during a breakout on why bad things can happen to good attendees, even...
Forget the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Thanks to Destination Marketing Association International’s empowerMINT.com, meeting planners now have a contest of their own: the March Meeting Planner Madness tournament.
“Being a meeting profes...
Screen shot of the fastest flights interactive Web site home pageI went to a session on data journalism led by the Boston Globe's Evan Horowitz at an American Society of Business Press Editors bootcamp last fall. It's a whole different way of tel...
