In a previous life, I served as a personal safety consultant to a major pharmaceutical company, traveling around the country training female sales reps in self-defense skills. Their biggest concern was handling doctors who tried to harass them...
The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 to ensure that, regardless of their capabilities, everyone — including meeting attendees — should be treated fairly and equally. What under the ADA is specifically required of planners? And...
More than 1,500 people celebrated the opening of the Center for Association Leadership at the Marriott Learning Complex in Washington, D.C., in November. The center was founded by the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives (GWSAE) as...
Nightmares. Insomnia. Anxiety. Startle responses. Although it may seem that the country is moving on from last September's terrorist attacks, emotional stress symptoms such as these may not be evident for some time, and experts say health care...
Thanks to a strong education program, a big drive-in market, and special telemarketing efforts by the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau as well as the association itself, the International Association for Exposition Management topped last year...
My attendance this October at the Direct Marketing Association Conference, held at the massive McCormick Place in my quasi-hometown Chicago (I am a suburb dweller by way of full disclosure), reinforced my faith in many of the foundations of direct...
Responding to concerns expressed by the Federation of State Medical Boards about the increasing number of CME courses that teach alternative therapies, the American Academy of Family Physicians in Leawood, Kan., introduced an initiative to...
This year's physician preferences survey — the ninth annual — was still in the hands of some respondents on September 11. Rick Lowe, our market research maven at Primedia Business, our parent company, was able to separate surveys returned before...