| In This Issue - June 20, 2012 | - Happy 35th Anniversary MPI-CAC
- Event Rewind: Annual Awards Recognition Gala
- Meet Kevin Hinton - Chairman Elect of the MPI International Board of Directors
- Conferences, Tradeshows, and Networking on LinkedIn: What NOT to Do
- MPI-CAC Connection to AIBTM Featuring John Nawn
- Chapter News
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| | Cross Committee Connection | | Happy 35th Anniversary MPI-CAC! | | By: Ben Palmer - Expressive Structures & Sally Magallanes, CMP - Independent Meeting & Marketing Professional |  | | Happy 35th Anniversary MPI Chicago Area Chapter! On June 22nd, we are celebrating 35 years of helping our members thrive by providing human connections to knowledge and ideas, relationships, and creating marketplaces for meeting professionals in the Chicago area.
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| | Event Rewind: Annual Awards Recognition Gala | | By: Ted Miller, CHME, CHSP, CGTP, CGMP - Starwood Hotels & Resorts |  | | The stars were all out at the new Museum of Broadcast Communications. As you looked in the audience you saw many of the award winners from previous years, members who have been quite active in their respective committees plus numerous past and present members of our board.
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| | | | Members You Should Know | | Meet Kevin Hinton - Chairman Elect of the MPI International Board of Directors | | By: James Sanden - Sanden Magic |  | | Kevin Hinton, Chairman Elect of the MPI International Board of Directors, shares inspiring ways to look at meetings, the future of MPI and insights on social media.
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| | | | | Tips & Tricks | | Conferences, Tradeshows, and Networking on LinkedIn: What NOT to Do | | By: Mark J. Carter - ONE80, LLC |  | | Sending a friend request on LinkedIn or Facebook WITHOUT a personal introduction is like walking into a networking event, passing your business card out to every person in the room and hoping they call you back (without giving them a reason to). Would you do that?
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| | | | | Feature Article | | MPI-CAC Connection to AIBTM Featuring John Nawn | | By: Jill Kapan - Eved |  | | AIBTM brings together the world’s meetings, incentive, business and corporate planners for three days of focused business. John Nawn, a member of MPI-CAC, leads the learning and content strategy for MPI's Business Value of Meetings research project and will be presenting this year at AIBTM in Baltimore.
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| | | | | Chapter News | | Bruce MacMillan, C.A., Steps Down as MPI President and CEO | After serving six years leading MPI, Bruce MacMillan has decided to leave the organization. COO Cindy D’Aoust will serve as interim leader, and a president/CEO search committee is being formed.
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| | | Here's Your Chance to Strut Your Stuff | What better way to prove what you can do than to showcase it to hundreds of industry professionals so they can experience it for themselves first-hand. You can do just that when you host a MPI-CAC event. Two high-profile, highly-attended chapter events have recently put out RFPs for host venues: Holiday Party on 12.12.12 and TechCon Chicago 2013 slated for February. If you are interested in learning more about hosting one of these prestigious events, view the RFP's.
Holiday Party 2012 RFP
TechCon Chicago 2013 RFP |
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