HSMAI Member Update - Summer 2008 - (Page 1) connecting you to the right people. Summer 2008 update HSMAI honored 17 of its chapters with “Chapter Best of the Best Awards” in the 2007 Frank W. Berkman Chapter Awards Program at the 2008 Annual HSMAI Leadership Conference at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo. March 25-27, 2008. HSMAI presented the “Chapter Best of the Best Awards,” an award representing chapter excellence and performance, for three groupings – large, medium and small chapters – in 11 categories. HSMAI received a record number of Leadership continued on page 4 member Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International In This Issue 2 HSMAI Foundation Publishes “Demystifying Distribution 2.0” and “The Travel Marketer’s Guide to Social Media and Social Networks HSMAI Announces 2008 Adrian Awards Call for Entries HSMAI University Update HSMAI Global Dubai Forum Focuses on Key Issues Impacting Sales and Marketing Professionals Chairman’s Corner President’s Message APEX Update CMP Update Maximizing Revenue and Resources in a Changing Economy Hospitality Industry Mourns Loss of Celebrated Leader, Mike Dimond; Foundation Scholarship Fund Established Chapter News HSMAI Calendar of Events HSMAI Honors Chapter Excellence at Annual Leadership Conference 3 6 8 10 13 14 15 17 Members of the Mid-South Chapter receive the "Chapter of the Year" Award from HSMAI President & CEO Bob Gilbert at the 2008 HSMAI Leadership Conference at The Broadmoor. 18 20 24 More than 2,000 Planners Expected at HSMAI’s Affordable Meetings® National/Event Technology Expo™ More than 2,000 planners are expected to attend the 2008 HSMAI’s Affordable Meetings National exposition and conference and debut of Event Technology Expo at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, September 10-11, 2008. Event Technology Expo, a two-day “show within a show” will address all aspects of technology as it relates to tradeshows, conventions, meetings, and special events and will feature an educational conference program that focuses on the effects technology has on the meetings and events industry today and will have in years to come. Among the highlights of the ETE sessions will be Allen Blue, cofounder and vice president of LinkedIn, who will The HSMAI Foundation has published the follow-up to the groundbreaking 2005 Demystifying Distribution special report. See page 2 for details. present a general session titled “Deriving greater value from 3 days out of the office: LinkedIn’s View on the Power of the Relationship and its Impact on Events.” ETE also addresses the need for all vendors of event technology applications and services to Affordable continued on page 2
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