I just wanted to take a brief moment to publicly acknowledge our three most recent CMEpalooza Fall sponsors: Imedex, Impact Education, and RedMedEd. Imedex is our first Silver Level sponsor, specifically sponsoring the 1:00 PM  What Do Supporters Do With Outcomes Data? session, which will be moderated by John Ruggiero, PhD, CCMEP, Senior Medical Education Manager, Independent Medical Education Department, Genentech.

Please be sure to visit the Sponsors page for more information on these organizations, contact details, and to watch Imedex’s video, Imedex on 21st Century Television. A big thank you to all of them for their support of CMEpalooza Fall and for helping us make this a great educational event for the CME/CE community!

For more information on how you can be a sponsor, please click here for the Sponsorship Prospectus.

UPDATE: You can now also watch Impact Education’s video, Impact Education — Managed Care Roundtable Demo, on the Sponsors page.

Everyone has their time-sucking Web site, that page you visit when your brain needs a 5-minute break at work or home. For several years, mine has been Sporcle. It’s not quite the brainless entertainment as, say, People.com (apologies to the wife), so I don’t feel too guilty when I’m on there.

Sporcle is a repository of quizzes using a variety of different formats that focus on thousands of different topics and themes. You can find a quiz on just about anything. The “Featured” quizzes on the homepage are either written by staff or nominated from those developed by the public.

For about a year, I’ve been trying to think of ways to incorporate a Sporcle quiz into an educational activity (Can you put a post-test up on here? Hmm…) but haven’t actually tried it yet.

I did, however, create a Palooza quiz just for our upcoming event. So when your brain needs a break, check out this link. I’m guessing the average score will come in at around 50%. You’ll be able to see how others answered on each question when you’re done. Maybe you’ll even learn something.

Quite obviously, Derek and I are big proponents of Google Hangout On Air (GHOA). GHOA was used as the platform that for the inaugural CMEpalooza in the spring and will be used in for CMEpalooza Fall on October 15. And yet I don’t get the sense that many people have a very good sense of all that is offered that may be of both personal and professional interest on GHOA. That will hopefully soon be changing, as I am giving a talk about GHOA in October at the annual meeting of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), with additional talks from Derek and I hopefully coming up soon as well.

At any given moment, there are dozens of different live broadcasts open to the world. Even without searching, I am quite sure you would be able to get amateur World Cup analysis from nearly every country in the world every day this week. But if that’s not your cup of tea…

• On Tuesday, June 24, at 1 p.m. ET, bestselling authors Malcolm Gladwell and Bishop T.D. Jakes get together to talk about obstacles in life and how they are best overcome.

• On Friday, June 27, at noon, you can learn what search engine optimization is and how to do it with the gang from GoDaddy.

• Here is a Hangout from April 10 on the use of social media in medicine that was moderated by Neil Mehta, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic.

And that is just scratching the surface. President Obama has been a Hangout guest several times, and there are often entertainment icons who regularly show up. I haven’t figured out an easy way to get a schedule of more than the 5-6 upcoming Hangouts that Google promotes, but I am sure there is a filter out there somewhere. As with everything new on the Internet, it just takes some figuring out.