| In This Issue - June 6, 2012 | - A Look Back at Communications
- Cross Committee Connection
- Meet Your MPI-CAC Board
- Partnerships
- Chapter News
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| | A Look at Communications | | Killer Presentations | | By: Tim McDonald - My Community Manager |  | | Quick…tell me one thing you learned from the meeting you just attended. Will your attendees be able to answer that without stopping to think? More importantly, did they focus on the lack of coffee, the great A/V or the convenient location rather than the incredible presentation?
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| | Communications Looking Back | | By: The Expert |  | | When your hair is a mixture of gray and white people tend to think that either you will know certain historical information or assume you lived at the time when certain historical events happened. The MPI-CAC Awards Gala at the Museum of Broadcast Communications seemed to have generated a lot of questions that were focused towards a certain member with excessive tenure in the chapter.
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| | | | Cross Committee Connection | | The Business of Golf | | By: Lisa Lutz - Ruffled Feathers Golf Course |  | | Meeting professionals don’t often think about networking on the golf course as a traditional means of business communication, but groups have been hosting golf events and conducting business over 18 holes since the beginning of the game. I had the opportunity to speak with Amanda Hebert with Eaglewood Resort and Spa, host of this year’s MPI-CAC Golf Classic, to gather some more insight and tips for hosting effective golf events.
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| | | | | Partnerships | | Partnerships Are Essential Because You Just Can't Do It All | | By: Sally Magallanes, CMP - Independent Meeting & Marketing Professional |  | | The hype has died down. World-wide media coverage? Over. And the intense security of every square inch of ground, air and sea? It is back to Chicago’s normal. Yes, the 2012 NATO Summit came to the Windy City and held its vital meeting without too much interruption. Most Chicagoans breathed a sigh of relief.
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| | MPI + IMEX America + Las Vegas = A Winning Combination | | By: MPI News Staff |  | | The IMEX and MPI partnership at the inaugural IMEX America Trade Show in Las Vegas was anything but a risky bet – delivering big returns to the meetings, events and incentive travel industry, with new energy, new education, new business and new relationships.
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| | | | Meet Your MPI-CAC Board | | MPI-CAC Spring Board Retreat Wrap Up | | By: Mandy Peace - Polomar Hotel Chicago |  | | Recently our incoming 2012-13 MPI-CAC Board Members met for the annual Board Member retreat at the Grand Geneva Resort and Spa. I am excited to report that the primary goal of this retreat was all about us, the members of MPI-CAC, and how they can help facilitate a promise to help grow our careers and build our businesses through MPI.
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| | | | | Chapter News | | Congratulations to the 2011-12 MPI-CAC Award Winners | MPI Chicago Area Chapter recognizes local members who have made contributions to the overall success of the meeting industry through their passion, professionalism and commitment. Please join us in congratulating the 2012 Award Winners that were awarded on June 5, 2012 at the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
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| | 2012-13 Membership Directory Advertising Opportunities | MPI-CAC is excited to announce that advertising opportunities are now available in the 2012-2013 Membership Directory! Our annual directory is referenced as a comprehensive resource guide for the meeting events industry in Chicago and is mailed directly to every member of MPI-CAC, including planners and suppliers in all facets of the meetings and events industry. Don't miss this opportunity to reach the decision makers in the largest chapter of MPI!
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 | | | UPCOMING EVENTS
HeresChicago.com Summer Beach Bash
Monday, June 11, 2012
Oak Street Beach Restaurant - Chicago, IL
Register Now! 17th Annual MPI-CAC Golf Classic
Monday, June 18, 2012
Eaglewood Resort & Spa - Itasca, IL
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MPI-CAC Lunch & Learn Webinar
Killer Presentations -
Make Your Meetings Awesome!
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Your Computer
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"INSIDE NATO: A Planner's Perspective" Panel Discussion & Networking Event
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Navy Pier - Chicago, IL
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MPI World Education Congress (WEC)
July 28 - 31, 2012
America's Center - St. Louis, MO
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Kristin Atlas
House of Blues Chicago
Fahad Balagam
Michelle Bushe
American Physician
David Jackson
Windy City Fieldhouse
Lauren Leibel
Javier Marquis
Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau
Dawn Marschand
BCD Meetings & Incentives
Alex Nowak
Harper College
David Salkover
Experient
Kristi Tarantino
Portland Cement Association
Sarah Waltzing
Anne Weldon
The Drake Hotel
Cindy Wendt
Reno-Tahoe, USA (Midwest Office)
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