Quick update! Here is some video goodness about the expo, check it out and then read the post below!
I am running with the press release on this one because Dahlia has done a great job of packing a ton of information into a few short paragraphs.
If you are located in the D.C. area or will be around the nation’s capital on May 21, you owe it to yourself to check out the expo. There are some amazing speakers and some really great sponsors, seriously, check it out below.
This past weekend was a blur, due to the heavy rains in Chicago; it felt like we should start building an arc and gathering up the pets 2×2….. flooded everything in my little corner of Chicagoland. One of the worst things about all of this is that I am having to miss MPI WEC in Orlando where I was supposed to be a social media reporter and also involved with a session on Sunday.
Even dark clouds have a bright spot occasionally. I was able to pull myself away from the carpet pulling and box hauling to attend Marriott International’s customer appreciation event at the Jimmy Buffet concert at Toyota Park in Chicago (well, actually Bridgeview).
I just wanted to throw out a quick thanks to everyone that attended the Site Lunch today at the always amazing James Hotel in Chicago.
Noted author Christine Corelli was our featured luncheon keynote speaker and her presentation, “Business Not as Usual- What to Do?” was excellent.
Christine is one of the best speakers out there and she had some great insights into doing business in the “new” economy for not only meeting, event and incentive planners but for hoteliers and suppliers as well. For those of you that are looking for a timely, fun and smart as a whip speaker for your next event, I can HIGHLY recommend her. Check out her website to learn more. Please let her know that we thought she was fantastic! [Read more...]
I put my latest post at PlannerWire, not sure why, just wanted too. Got to give my other site some love too.
Here is an excerpt, you can view the rest after the jump (some good images from the event as well).
I did a post a few months back on my blog about Langham Hotels and the great job that they did at a networking event that they hosted, it was really refreshing to go to an industry event that didn’t suck. I said it then and I will say it now so listen up, don’t plan events that suck, it is really better for everyone.
I still dread going to CVB or hotel property hosted events, I really do. They are usually a waste of time where I do not learn anything and end up sitting and talking to a colleague or worse, talking to myself for an hour and then head home wondering why I went in the first place….. and I am a pretty social guy so I wonder how not so social people do it.
I have cut down my industry event schedule to nil, nada, almost nothing, I really would rather spend my time working on client programs or finding things I can share with other planners on my blog, here at PlannerWire, or Twitter. I am not becoming some anti-social hermit living a life of solitude, I simply can’t stand being pitched for two hours or being ignored in favor of a company that does more events in a year than I do.
Read more at PlannerWire
Join bunches of other meeting and event professionals that found out that we are kinda nice sometimes.
