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By Crystal Chism
Now is the time and the message is simple: GET INVOLVED!
Here are a few reasons for volunteering for a committee or focus group for your chapter:
Leverage Your Membership Dollars – Becoming involved in chapter decisions means you have direct impact on chapter directives. If yours aren’t currently being addressed, this is the best way to have your voice heard to ensure that you are getting the most from your membership.
Strengthen Relationships – Chapter-sponsored volunteer activities can foster team spirit and allow people to get to know their colleagues outside the workplace and our monthly meetings. Once you lend your expertise to a chapter event or directive, your committee partners will be more likely to recommend you or call on you when your services are needed.
Professional Development/Acquiring New Skills — Volunteerism doesn’t have to begin with an area in which you are an expert. Select a committee or event you know nothing about and take an opportunity to learn from your peers and colleagues. Excel on a committee or event and add it to your resume!
- Leadership and Personal Development — Volunteer opportunities promote leadership skills, teamwork and heighten personal development through interaction with other industry leaders. Fostering a project can lend to a more positive self image and help you stand proud among your peers. After a project, you might even feel empowered enough from the experience to mentor the next team planning the event.
- Take Your Chapter To the Next Level – KBC MPI always begins with a dedicated board of directors but every member has something valuable to bring to the chapter. Even if you can’t commit time and effort to a board position, your input is necessary. The board can’t improve without you. Whether by joining a committee or serving on a focus group, this is your chapter. Please help your board take it to the next level.
Please see the board members at their tables at the August meeting at the Hilton Lexington Downtown and join us by serving on a committee or give us feedback on what you’d like to see offered in the coming year. If time is a present factor or inhibitor, don’t forget that a separate committee will need to be formed for the Mid-America Conference. The MAC will be hosted in Louisville in March of 2011 and will need all hands on deck. As great as MAC 2010 was in OH, I have a feeling that Tina Bowling and the committee yet to be named will continue on the path of excellence and 2011 will be the even better than the last. Don’t miss an opportunity to be a part of this excitement!
Looking forward to seeing many of you on committees and focus groups soon and also at our next monthly meeting at the Hilton Lexington Downtown.
July 2010
Joyce Howlett, CMP retired from the Louisville CVB at the end of July. Howlett has been with the Bureau since 1987. She began her career as a convention sales manager and was promoted to senior sales manager in 2001. Having covered most markets during her tenure at the Bureau, she most recently was responsible for the corporate, cultural, direct selling, government, insurance, public affairs and union markets.
She was instrumental in landing contracts with such high-profile groups as the National Conference of State Legislatures, Adjutants General Association of the US, Army National Guard, National Sheriff's Association, CNH, John Deere, Walmart, Barbershop Harmony Society, National Square Dance Association, Air Force Combat Command, International Bluegrass Music Association and US Army. In all, Howlett booked over 800,000 room nights.
February 2010
Stephanie Ringer of WorkShop, the creative workplace has been named a finalist in the 2010 EPIC Awards hosted by the Louisville chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO).
December 2009
The Sheraton Louisville Riverside Hotel is extending a $59.00 Friends & Family rate through the end of the year. Reservations can be booked by calling 812-206-7158 and asking for the Friends & Family rate.
Interactive Media Lab (IML) has introduced new streaming technology for the online support of events large and small. IML has developed a web-based interface that allows a remote viewing audience to see live video of a presenter along with supporting PowerPoint content simultaneously. PowerPoint slides and/or video content are seen remotely just as being shown to the live audience.
IML has developed this new tool with the goal of providing a single resource that can accommodate the most efficient and effective online communication of live event messages. We are empowering both presenters and audience members with powerful technology to tear down barriers that previously made streaming events less than ideal. For more information please contact Matthew Stone at 502.585.4004 ext. 310 or email mstone@interactivemedialab.com
November 2009
Essential Details and her sister companies (Huber Decor, IdeaSource, Blooms by Essential Details and Betsye's Blooms) have completed one of their goals to "give back" to the community by donating over $15,000 this year to non-profit organizations including Women 4 Woman, Habit for Humanity, the Susan G. Komen Foundation Pink Tie Ball, Hats for Hope, Ronald McDonald House and countless others in the greater Louisville area. These contributions included in-kind services (event/floral design and management) as well as flowers and event products.
Jim Rittenhouse, President of McKinney Speakers, is pleased to announce great new happenings with the bureau. The company's new website (www.mckinneyspeakers.com) features a full search feature drawing on eSpeakers, an international database of speakers and trainers. McKinney Speakers has also recently aligned with local speakers Michael Duke and Peggy Noe Stevens to market to bureaus and agencies worldwide. Carl Hurley, Kentucky humorist and McKinney Speakers exclusive, is being promoted to theatrical venues across the US by New York-based GEODESIC MANAGEMENT.
Greg Jewell of AEC Management Resources has launched a new web site designed to showcase non-profit fundraising events. EventsforGood.net provides a one-stop online marketplace for non-profit fundraisers. The service is free to all non-profits. Visit www.eventsforgood.net for details.
Aaron Baer has joined the sales staff at 21c Museum Hotel. Aaron was formerly with the Louisville CVB.
Congratulations to 21c Museum Hotel, which was voted best hotel in the US and #6 in the world by readers of Conde Nast Traveler! | |
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