Hospitality

Be Helpful in Ways Would-be Customers Will Admire

Kare Anderson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:01:44 -0400

Want to stand out from the competition? Take a cue from a bank. Some people in Orange County, California, will be walking into a local bank branch to vote. Many will be assisted by bank volunteers who have been trained as poll workers. This SmartPartnership made local and international news. Would you like customer-attracting media coverage too? Read on.

Help Solve a Problem

4 Successful Ways We Achieve More Together Than Alone

Kare Anderson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:00:38 -0400

Tired of self-promotion? Would you like to make work and life easier, more productive and fun – with others? Here’s four ways others accomplish more together than you can on your own – and sometimes forge friendships.

1. Co-create Products, Cause Support and More

• From clothing design to science experiments, the right crowd can get more done together.

• Collaborate online for a cause or faster innovation - and to become more well-known.

• Crowdsource a contest; take it public.

2. Swap and Share

How We Can Argue Better

Kare Anderson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:59:01 -0400

“Presidential candidate George Bush will be active in making pronouncements in the coming weeks… He wants to define himself before his opponents do it for him,” intoned a radio commentator when the previous Bush became president. Yes, nicknames stick. “To name a thing is not the same as to know a thing,” Richard Feynman wrote, yet naming is a potent persuasion tool.

“Even You Can Draw It So They Quickly Understand, Kare”

Kare Anderson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:36:01 -0400

In art class we were asked to draw a familiar object. I picked something simple. A tire. No one could recognize it. And yet, after reading The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures I was able to draw a description of SmartPartnering and another on storyboarding.

How a Coffee Event Attracts More People & You Can Too

Kare Anderson — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:52:06 -0400

Some of the most masterful baristas in the U.S. gathered in a hotel lobby in Minneapolis for their annual competition last month, judged by their peers.

3D Breakthrough Changes How We Meet, Share, Buy & Play

Kare Anderson — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:31:01 -0400

He was in Bangalore and his co-presenters were in San Jose, yet Cisco’s CEO appeared live - on thesame stage. How? By using a breathtaking 3D holographic-like technology.They tout it as, “the world’s first real time virtual presentation. Aptly, it’s called TelePresence.

Bio and Interests: Jim Grillo

Jim Grillo — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:42:35 -0400

18 years in the Meetings, Hospitality and Events Industry
Past President, MPI Chicago Area Chapter
Current President, Hereschicago.com
Past President, HSMAI Illinois
Currently a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
Currently serve on MPI International Committee
7 Years Online Internet Marketing and SEO experience
Speaker, SEO and Internet Marketing for the Meetings Industry
7 Years, Chicago Destination Management Experience

We’d Rather Work Together Than Alone

Kare Anderson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:54:07 -0500

So says Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold in his 19-minute talk at the Ted conference. He believes it is instinctive to want to participate in a compatible group. Of course, we are only as strong as the weakest link. Hear how to be a part of collective action and participatory media. It may lead you to hearing more and reading this chapter of Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth.

Battling Crime One Leak at a Time?

Kare Anderson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:51:09 -0500

From tax evasion and money laundering to what’s happening at Guantanamo, whistleblowers’ “secret” documents can be posted and seen by anyone with access to the Internet, thanks to Wikileaks. Even a federal judge’s order here in San Francisco can’t completely quash the testimony now. People just post the story on mirror servers and elsewhere. That’s what the Swiss bank Julius Baer (“the best justice Cayman Islands money launderers can buy?”) discovered this month.

How Will We Meet in the Future?

Kare Anderson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:48:06 -0500

Last Friday the members in my audience at EMC Venues’ MEET voted on questions I asked and saw their cumulative votes appear on the screens on either side of me soon thereafter. They loved it. I only wish audiences had more ways to share and compare all year long. That’s what moms in medicine are doing.

Tourism Innovation

Antonio Lopez de Avila — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:24:12 -0500

The aim of this blog is to create a open space for tourism professionals. A space to share ideas, new visions and projects.

URBN Hotel, China's First Carbon Neutral Hotel

Christine Lu — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:14:50 -0500

Scott Barrack and Jules Kwang, Founders of URBN Hotels and Resorts introduce us to China's first carbon neutral hotel.

Sports Executives

Wade Leaphart — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:46:06 -0500

Open to professionals in sports business. Idea sharing, networking, and some friendly rivalry.

Bio and Interests: guillem oliva

guillem oliva — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:48:32 -0500

mainly interested in creating relationships to develop my capabilities in the food and hospitality industry as a consultant, as a innovation teams developer, and as a concept and product development as well as new markets and trends hunter.

i'm an obsesse of true and real things in any area of knowledge and all my project must have a big ethic component within.