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.
"If you squint your eyes late at night, you can see the ghosts of Buffalo Bill, French fur trappers, mountain men, and silver miners," says Eric Clark, general manager of the new Winter Park Mountain Lodge. The description is apt for any...
My first column, focused on "the right media," the first of six successful direct marketing methods, as outlined by Bob Stone, the guru of direct marketing in his industry bible, Successful Direct Marketing Methods. In this column, we'll move on...
We all agree on two things about lectures: They'll always be used, and they encourage passive learning. Here's a strategy you can pass on to faculty so they can enliven their lectures. I've long used the lecturing technique described here (with...
Meeting professionals can be some of the heroes of the world because we're out and about. We're not asking planners to be paramedics, but they need to be the eyes and hands in an emergency situation," says Richard Obertots, founder of Warren, Ohio...
Recently, several organizations, including the Organization of American Historians, Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, canceled scheduled meetings at various Adam's Mark hotels after learning of the hotel chain's...
Medical emergencies will happen at meetings. Often the difference between life and death may be seconds or minutes. Relying on your meeting staff or calling "911" is not the only answer since few meeting venues are adequately trained or prepared...
It should come as no surprise that medical students, weaned on the Web, are the most active users of the giant portal Medsite.com. But there's not much chance the Internet Goliaths will ever completely replace the role of associations or their...
Cue the "Dragnet" music. The rumbling voice of the narrator intones that we will once again visit our hotel contract files to review the raw, the true, the underbelly of the hotel contract world. We will take a look at a real provision addressing...