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Hooray for Barbara! Hooray for Convene!

Last night our own Barbara Palmer took home a Gold Award as part of Association Media & Publishing’s EXCEL competition, which every year honors the best in association magazines, newsletters, websites, books, and other publications. Barbara won for “7 Days … Continue reading

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Haiti: A Moment for Hope

Today marks six months and one day after a violent earthquake devastated Haiti — and exactly six months after the non-profit organization Healing Hands for Haiti (HHH) — which provides rehabilitation clinical services and education in Haiti — began rebuilding … Continue reading

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Confidence is Contagious

PCMA member Jean Tracy, senior national sales director for the George Fern Company, is living proof that confidence and compassion are contagious. Tracy is a longtime volunteer for Healing Hands for Haiti, a non-profit organization which provides rehabilitative services to … Continue reading

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In Praise of Logistics

Meeting planning is not all about logistics.But logistics have never looked so good to me as it did in Haiti, where I traveled in late March with Healing Hands for Haiti, an organization that provides physical therapy, prosthetics, and other … Continue reading

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Housing Haiti

I usually love to fall asleep to the plunk of rain on the roof. But it was a horrible sound to hear in Port-au-Prince, where I traveled in late March and saw thousands of men, women, and children living in … Continue reading

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Not Ignoring Haiti

As Salon pointed out in a story last week graphing news stories about Haiti before and after the January earthquake, the media –and we readers — have a short attention span when it comes to Haiti. It’s all too easy … Continue reading

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Sending Soap to Haiti

Planners and suppliers who stayed in conference hotels at PCMA’s 2010 Annual Meeting in Dallas can take some comfort in knowing that they already are part of the tremendous relief effort mobilizing for Haiti. At all five conference hotels, housekeepers like Elizabeth … Continue reading

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