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contents editor’s message AFC Forever! 4 NETWORKING—AFTER THE EVENT How to nurture your network and stay in touch with the contacts you’ve made. BY CRIS CANNING 5 HOLIDAY PARTY SDMPI members decked the halls and spread festive cheer on Dec. 6. 6 CRUISE CONTROL Best practices for planning events on the high seas. BY VICTOR GOODPASTURE 9 SAN DIEGO FIRESTORM 2007 SDMPI members rally to produce and distribute ash-filtering screens. BY HOLLY YOUNG, CMP 10 GOOD MANNERS IS GOOD BUSINESS Find out how practicing professional etiquette can impact your career. BY GINA VIÑA DEPARTMENTS Message from our President 3 Planner Profile 11 Supplier Profile 11 News Briefs 12 New Members 13 Calendar at a Glance 13 Advertisers’ Index 13 On the cover: The cruise ship Carnival Spirit complements the majestic San Diego skyline as it departs at sunset. Photo by A. Victor Goodpasture/ Professional Digital Photography id you know that for four months, San Diego didn’t call itself America’s Finest City? A Dec. 4, 2005, msnbc.com article stated that with an FBI investigation of City Hall, a resigning mayor, a $1.37 billion pension shortfall and two councilmen convicted of taking bribes from a strip bar owner, the city had lost its clean image. With such embarrassments, the city removed the moniker from its Web site in August 2005. But the removal was short-lived. Four months later, the nickname was back on the city’s Web site, according to a Wikipedia article. I love the moniker America’s Finest City. It ﬁts us perfectly. No other city comes as close to being perfect as San Diego. And I am proud to be associated with an amazing group of meeting and service professionals who go out of their way to ensure our guests have a ﬁrstclass AFC experience. The future looks even better! Now if the city can only ﬁgure out this whole trafﬁc thing… A. Victor Goodpasture is the editor of Compass. He’s also a professional photographer, an AFC paladin, and a parking pundit. D 2 compass • Winter 2008 http://msnbc.com

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Compass - Winter 2008 Contents Message from our President Networking- After the Event Holiday Party Cruise Control San Diego Firestorm 2007 Good Manners Is Good Business Planner Profile Supplier Profile News Briefs New Members Calendar at a Glance Advertisers’ Index

Compass - Winter 2008

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