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This month's issue features an On Location! video shot at Cedar Rapids, Iowa’s The Hotel at Kirkwood Center, a soon-to-open hotel and meeting facility on the campus of Kirkwood Community College, which offers perhaps the top hospitality program in the nation at a two-year college. Also, Career Forum columnist Sheryl Sookman Schelter augments her column on job interview techniques with some important video tips that will help planners be better prepared when the interview spotlight shines on them.. |
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Value Destinations
We Try Harder
By RUTH A. HILL
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| The National Middle School Association (NMSA) knows the value of meeting in destinations other than first-tier cities. Along with a growing number of organizations, NMSA is finding that it’s easier than ever to get the “big fish” treatment and plenty of added value for meetings. |
“Our organization loves tier-two cities,” says Al Summers, NMSA director of conferences. “We’re usually the biggest game in town, and other value they offer in this economy is even greater.”
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Short Takes
Museums & Attractions
The University of Iowa Museum of Art in Iowa City is currently exhibiting Two Turntables and a Microphone, the work of Harry Allen, hip-hop journalist and Media Assassin of the group Public Enemy. In the 1980s, Allen captured New York street culture and the beginnings of hip-hop with a camera. This exhibit features 40 of Allen's photographs that represent the emergence of the music, culture and politics of this cultural phenomenon. Further expanding upon the visual culture of the hip-hop scene, the exhibit also includes a digital show of the work of Lady Pink, one of the forerunners in graffiti art who paint-bombed New York subway trains with such artistry that she became a cult figure. Completing the exhibition is a display of original hip-hop show flyers, album covers and memorabilia that capture the history of hip-hop as a musical and cultural movement. The exhibit is being showcased through June 27 at the Black Box Theater, located on the third floor of the Iowa Memorial Union. For more information, call 319.335.1727.
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Site Scene
Illinois
The InterContinental Chicago recently completed major renovations at the Michigan Avenue-based property. The hotel features 792 refurbished guest rooms, including 73 suites. The multimillion-dollar refurbishment included 328 of the guest rooms and suites, along with the corridors of select floors inside the Historic Tower of the hotel. Originally built in 1929 as the Medinah Athletic Club, an exclusive luxury men’s club, the property is a Chicago landmark. The hotel’s junior Olympic size pool is recognized as one of the best indoor pools in the U.S. For more information, call 312.944.4100.
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LATEST VIDEOS
Meetings: On Location!
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| During a recent visit to company HQ in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Chief Content Director Tyler Davidson had the pleasure of touring the soon-to-open Hotel at Kirkwood Center, and found it an eye-opening experience. |
| Leveraging Your CVB Relationship Webinar |
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Conference centers offer venues at which meetings are the focus and meeting participants can concentrate on business. For meeting professionals, conference centers offer an ease of planning and budgeting.
In this webinar, top industry educator Joan Eisenstodt discovers what benefits—from ease of planning to perception—meeting in a dedicated learning environment such as a conference center provides.
Sponsored by: Banff Centre, Hyatt Regency DFW, Blair County Convention Center, IACC and Wyndham Peachtree Hotel & Conference Center. |
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Visit our webinar page to register or learn more.
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