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.
CIC FORUM TACKLES TECHNOLOGY Technology's effect on the meeting industry was one of the top topics the Convention Industry Council (formerly the Convention Liaison Council), a council representing 26 associations in the meeting, convention, and...
IAEM CONFERENCE REVIEWS DOT-COM DEMISE "What a difference a year makes," said Fast Company co-founder and editor William Taylor, back for a repeat keynote presentation at the annual meeting of the International Association for Exhibition...
Hoteliers have complained for years about paying commissions to site selection companies. Now, Ritz-Carlton has taken action by capping commissions. Will other hotels follow suit...
Medical Meetings and its five sister magazines in The Meetings Group were recently acquired by Intertec Publishing. In a getting-to-know-you meeting, one of the new execs asked me what I considered to be my most valuable source of information in...
The American Chemical Society aims to hold the best chemists' conference series in 2001. Its formula for reaching the top? Follow a for-profit business model...
Eighth Annual Physician Preferences Survey In 1994, every respondent to the Physician Preferences Survey planned to attend at least one out-of-town CME meeting. In 2001, 34 percent say they didn't attend any meetings requiring travel last year...
Analyze This! In medicine, the autopsy tells the tale. And in direct marketing, back-end analysis is the equivalent of "getting the post." If your marketing postmortem is going to be worth doing, it has to be done right. Bad analysis is worse than...