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First Up
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From the ASAE Annual Meeting: Sarfati to Resurface at
APB
By Dave Kovaleski
The annual meeting of the American Society of
Association Executives & The Center for Association Leadership is in
full swing this week. The news coming out of the San Diego Convention
Center includes outgoing leader Susan Sarfati’s plans after she leaves
ASAE and The Center at the end of the month as well as some initial
recommendations from a task force assessing the efficiency of the linked
organizations’ governance.
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here for the story.
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Video Interview: Down Economy Hits Pharma
Meetings
The hottest topics in the pharmaceutical meetings
industry are how the economy and the newly updated PhRMA Code on
Interactions with Healthcare Professionals are influencing business. We
asked four meeting managers for their perspective during a video
interview, held in July in New York.
“The economy is having a significant impact on pharmaceutical
meetings,” said Terri Breining, CMP, CMM, founder and president,
Concepts Worldwide Inc., Carlsbad, Calif. "Meetings are one of the first
areas cut in tough economic times. We've seen some of our clients forgo
live meetings for electronic meetings. But electronic meetings will not
replace live meetings—although that is the knee-jerk reaction. Live
meetings are always much more impactful. Although we will see some dip
in the number of live meetings, and we’ll see shorter meetings, we've
been through this cycle before and we will come out the other side."
Hear
more from Breining and other experts.
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On Our Radar Screen
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The Case for Security: Traveling With Laptops Just Got
Easier
By Michael Bassett
The airport security process just got a little easier
for laptop-laden travelers. A new Transportation Security Agency
regulation, which went into effect last Saturday, allows passengers to
leave their laptop computers in “checkpoint-friendly” cases when
going through security lines.
Click here
for an explanation of what constitutes “checkpoint friendly” and a
list of a few suppliers who already have the TSA-approved bags
available.
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Who Should Manage E-Meetings? Attend One and
See.
Web meetings are on the rise. The question is: Should
meeting managers be the ones to organize them?
On July 31, we held a live webinar, now archived here,
on exactly that topic, and asked: “As travel costs increase, do you
expect your company to convert a percentage of its face-to-face meetings
to virtual meetings?” More than half (53 percent) answered “yes”
or “likely,” 26 percent said “somewhat likely”—and only 6
percent said "no." They were all attending the webinar to learn from
Debi Scholar, CMP, CMM, CTE,
director of meeting and event services
at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Timothy Stark,
director of online
events at Penton Media, about how they have transformed some of their
company’s meetings into online events, and, in Debi’s case, taken a
proactive role in sourcing and managing them.
View the free
webinar.
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Blogged!
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Blogging ASAE
Our resident blogger is away but still online, blogging
her way through the annual meeting of the American Society of
Association Executives. Read her dispatches from San Diego, here, on face2face, the
MeetingsNet blog.
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