Conference time at last

Hi All
As you read this I am assuming you are all packing your suitcases and checking you have your passports in your hand bags and man bags, and you are heading in the Baltimore direction somewhere on the east coast of the USA.

Well you lucky people are in for a bit of a treat if you are attending the 2009 ISMTE conference, this year there are 2 speakers: Kent Anderson, The New England Journal of Medicine and Peter Binfield, PLOS One.

You will be starting off on Monday evening with a little cheese and wine, and I hear it is more wine than cheese, so go crazy ;o)

Then on Tuesday the real fun begins, one speaker in the morning and one in the afternoon based on 'ideas for your journal in the current climate' and 'what is the future of online publishing'.
On top of that there are 2 workshops one in the morning with Glenn Collins on 'Best Practice' and one in the afternoon with Irene Hames on 'Publication Ethics'.

I am sure after the first day you will having much more merriment in the bar and maybe a little nibble.

Wednesday you are in for another little treat with 2 workshops going on, the first is with Tom McLung 'Taking excel to a new level' and then a little later Deborah Bowman will be taking the 2nd workshop on 'Managing your journals editing'.

I am sure you will learn an immense amount at this conference and the networking will be invaluable, I am just gutted I can't be there as my twins are about to be born any day now.

But hey ho, enjoy with passion.

Toodle oo people.