Social Media Workshop in Las Vegas, May 14

Using Social Media to Promote Yourself or Your Business

Conducted by Patti Shock, UNLV Professor

Thursday, May 14

6 pm to 9 pm

Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Squidoo, MySpace are all sites and methods where you can promote yourself or your business for next to nothing. This course will provide a complete demonstration on how you can harness the power of social media and show you in a step by step fashion on how you can get up to speed in a short time. Social media is a new channel of communicating with your target audience that can no longer be overlooked.

3614 E Sunset Road, Suite 110 (close to Pecos)

$69

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Workshops in Las Vegas

The Workshops at The International School of Hospitality utilizes its credentialed faculty of industry professionals together with specially selected guest speakers to offer 3-7 hour seminars in key topics of relevance to the hospitality industry and community at large. There are no pre-requisites for admission. Attendees receive documentation of attendance with continuing education units (CEU).

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Certificate Programs Starting in Las Vegas

CMEP: Conference Management & Event Planning

Industry leaders with decades of combined experience teach this 12-week comprehensive program. The course is delivered through lectures, discussions, site visits, and talks by guest speakers. Upon successful completion of the course, students will have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in their careers as conference and event planning professionals.

Classes Start: May 18, 2009
Classes Meet: Monday and Wednesday (6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for 12 weeks)
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WCD: Wedding Coordination & Design

This program is designed to provide participants with a foundation of knowledge on wedding planning and the confidence to enter and succeed in the industry. Upon completion, graduates will be able to work towards careers as independent wedding consultants; employment as planners with hotels, resorts and special event companies; or for positions with allied businesses.

Classes Start: May 18, 2009
Classes Meet: Monday and Wednesday (6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for 12 weeks)
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AOC: The Art of Concierge

This program is designed to provide thorough hands-on training in world-class concierge service and guest relations skills, along with the required supervisory and communication skills to succeed in hospitality operations.

Classes Start: May 19, 2009
Classes Meet: Tuesday and Thursday (6:00 pm to 8:00 pm for 10 weeks)
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The Art of Butts in Chairs

Chris Brogan runs a series of conferences.


"Logistically, they require the same things most conferences run on: great speakers, relevant exhibitors and sponsors, and eager attendees. The goal is to get the right speakers to draw the right attendees who might also be of interest to the exhibitors and sponsors. It’s a kind of ecosystem. It’s also not exactly the easiest business in the world.
People don’t have a lot of budget to spend on attending events. Companies aren’t exactly sending them any more. It’s not all doom and gloom, but it does require more work than it used to, with regards to moving interested people from their office to my conference hall. " More.

Color

Color choices are an important consideration in events. Theme colors can set a mood. Here is a site where you can find any color, find the name for that color, and also get the hex number. Link.

Event Budgeting

Blog report by Serenity Knutsen on a session on the PlannerMix blog.

"Event Budgeting: From Start to Finish" by Carroll Reuben, CMP, CMM, owner of Meeting Excellence. Link.

Back to School

The Wedding Wire blog has a cute post with photos, about a wedding for elementary school sweethearts. Link.

Wedding Gown with the Longest Train in the World

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6 Ways To Utilize Twitter At Your Next Conference

Here are six ways of using twitter on your next event.

1. Scheduling meeting ups with like minded people before the event
   
   
2. Alerting attendees about changes or after parties
   
   
3. Keeping track of what is going on at an event. If you are in a horrible breakout session you may scan the tweets and see a better one is going on.(conference producers should also be watching this)
   
   
4. Using it in your presentation to engage the audience. (see above)
   
   
5. Building a brand of how cool your conference is for other watching through twitter. Blog world will improve attendance next year from the positive tweets going on
   
   
6. Real time performance review and feedback.

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Facility Usage Fee

Association charges registrants a $250 fee if they do not stay at the host hotel. Link.