Play FourSquare While Attending PCMA’s Convening Leaders

January 8, 2012

During the next several days, attendees of this year’s Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders event in San Diego may see many of their fellow attendees playing FourSquare on their smart phones.  Hopefully, this little article can offer a few pointers to those of you who may wish to play along. FourSquare is a location [...]

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My favorite Christmas Holiday Songs

December 15, 2011

Well, once again the Christmas holiday season is upon us.  I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for putting up with my rantings here. In honor of the season, I thought it would be interesting to highlight a few of my favorite holiday songs. I would love to hear from some of [...]

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Eight Out Of Nine Ain’t Bad….

November 1, 2011

Ummm, Greg?   Psst!  That photo of actress Jeri Ryan – her character on Star Trek: Voyager was called Seven of Nine.  It really has nothing to do with the title of your post. Greg?  Me again.  That song by Meat Loaf?  It’s called Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.  Once again, you are oh so [...]

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Reflections on #BizBash New York

October 23, 2011

A few hours have passed since I have returned home from this year’s BizBash Expo & Awards in New York.  Overall, I thought it was a very successful event and look forward to attending additional BizBash events in other cities. I can count the number of times I have been in the Big Apple on [...]

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“O” is for Offset: A Sustainable Event Alphabet!

October 18, 2011

I am pleased to present our first Guest blogger here at The Gems – Shawna McKinley.  Shawna is a true dynamo when it comes to creating sustainable events and I am very thankful that she has agreed to make a contribution here!  – GR An Alphabet soup of standards you greet, When starting to green [...]

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Earn a FourSquare Badge (or more!) at #BizBash New York!

October 17, 2011

I’m looking forward to seeing many members of the Eventprofs community at the upcoming BizBash New York Expo and Awards on October 19th. I have not been to New York since the original EventCamp that was held at the Roger Smith Hotel in February 2010. Many of the attendees at that conference were playing FourSquare [...]

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Baltimore needs to get moving on new Arena/Convention Center complex

October 10, 2011

Existing Convention Center / Sheraton Hotel Back in May of this year, the Greater Baltimore Committee revealed plans for a proposed new 18,500 seat arena, 500 room Sheraton hotel and enlarged Baltimore Convention Center at its Annual Meeting.  The key part of this proposal is that Willard Hackerman, a large Baltimore real estate owner/developer and [...]

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Please consider making a contribution to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

October 4, 2011

Ten years ago today was the worst day of my life. On October 5, 2001, my mother lost her battle with leukemia after being diagnosed just two months earlier with this disease. To this day, I am still not comfortable with this subject. This post will be short. I would like to ask you to [...]

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Do the #EventProfs chats on Twitter matter anymore?

October 4, 2011

I am composing this blog post after returning from an industry networking event in Washington, DC tonight.  Traffic was better than I had anticipated and got home around 9:30 p.m.  Upon looking at the clock, I decided to jump into the #Eventprofs chat that takes place on Twitter every Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET [...]

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Happy Fourth of July!

July 1, 2011

I am just going to take a minute to wish you and your families a very happy and safe Fourth of July holiday weekend.  Please take a moment this holiday weekend to remember those that are currently serving our country in the armed forces to defend the liberties we take for granted year round. The [...]

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