You may remember last summer that we launched a new offering called “CMEpalooza Company Spotlight.” No, you say, you don’t remember? For shame, pilgrim, for shame!

OK, OK, I’ll forgive you this time and provide a quick refresher. The CMEpalooza Company Spotlight was launched as an opportunity for MECCs/universities/providers/etc. to take advantage of the CMEpalooza brand and our built-in audience to get out information about all of the cool and innovative things your organization is doing. You can check out the pilot we did with Educational Measures on the Spotlight tab of our website.

In a nutshell, here is how these Spotlights work:

1. You go to this link and complete the form expressing interest in being a “spotlighted” company (alas, these are not free, but really, how many new Ferraris do you need for your garage?)
2. We work with you to come up with a focus for your spotlight. Seeing as we are an external audience of sorts, hopefully we’ll be able to help you come up with issues that our broader Palooza audience would be interested in learning about. The last thing anyone wants is a snoozer presentation.
3. You can have up to 4 people from your organization participate as panelists. You can create slides if you want. We’re flexible.
4. We’ll schedule a time for your 30 minute spotlight. We’re planning on holding these from noon-12:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday afternoons. How many will we schedule? No idea. Could be 1, could be 10. Won’t be 500.
5. We’ll use our social media channels to build interest and an audience. I will “moderate” the session based on a jointly agreed-upon discussion guide that highlights the value of your organization/company and is of prospective interest to our viewers.
6. As with all CMEpalooza sessions, anyone can watch live. For free. Anyone can watch after the broadcast is over. For free. As an added bonus, you can take the video and embed it onto your website if you want. We’ll have a special tab set up on the CMEpalooza website so that people can watch these easily on our site whenever they want.

I’m embarrassed for Derek that he spent hours coming up with this concept only to see it gain momentum at about the same rate as the new Justine Bateman workout video. It’s not pretty seeing a grown man cry (though it can sometimes be funny).

Anyway, feel free to reach out to either of us if you have any questions or want more information. We need the entertainment.

This is a tale of two men.

One of the men — let’s call him, oh, how about…Skott? — used his downtime after CMEpalooza Fall to do something productive. Skott was a busy beaver and updated the CMEpalooza archive by taking all of the new CMEpalooza Fall sessions and adding them to the archive page by category. Good job, Skott!

If you’ve never had a chance to check out the archive page, you really should, especially if you have a particular topic you’re interested in. Need a refresher on educational design? There are eleven sessions you can watch. Suddenly thrust into the role of “outcomes expert” at your organization? Get a crash course in outcomes from the fourteen(!) sessions housed in the archive. It’s a pretty handy resource.

The other man — let’s call him Erek for anonymity’s sake — used his extra free time to write a 3000 word CMEpalooza-themed ghost story supposedly based on the events that transpired the night before CMEpalooza Fall. Erek is a bit of a wacko and admits that this may not have been the best use of his time. Skott just thinks it’s weird. In his defense, Erek would like to point out that he once wrote an even longer story about a hard-boiled CME Detective, so this should come as no surprise to anyone. He has posted a link to it here for those bored enough to take a gander.

Both of these men would like to once again thank everyone who participated in last week’s successful CMEpalooza Fall and wish you all a Happy Halloween!

Would you like to take a survey?

Please?

If you watched any of our CMEpalooza Fall sessions yesterday and haven’t yet taken our survey/evaluation (64 people have done it so far), we would really really appreciate it if you would take 60 seconds, click the TOTALLY AWESOME SURVEY link (now with even more awesome!!!), and fill it out: TOTALLY AWESOME SURVEY

It helps us get a better idea of how many people participated and we really do use the comments to guide our planning process. And if you have taken our survey, then thank you, thank you, thank you!