When you are speaking at an event that is NOT in a hotel setting, you must pay particular attention to making sure you have everything you need to make a smooth event. Here's a brief checklist of things that may not be available if you aren't in a hotel: Projection Screen Flip Chart Extension cords Power strips Ice Refreshments, coffee, juice, water, etc. MORE
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Too many conferences are painful to attend; lengthy keynote speeches in windowless hotel rooms, rubber chicken and endless PowerPoint conspire to dull the senses. The recent Tech Policy Summit at the Silverado Country Club in the Napa Valley was a well organized and engaging event. This event was an exception. Here’s a list of the [.]. Business Communication Technology #TPS2012 Tech Policy Summit MORE
This one is being held at the Orlando World Center Marriott Hotel next to the Magic Kingdom. In a few short days I’m off to Orlando for my 6th National Speakers Association Convention. Six years after my first convention I’ve learned that advanced planning is a necessity. So, in addition to following some great tips [.]. MORE
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Here is how a luxury hotel “operator” answered my call today: (Think blah.) “He…llo… This is Name of Hotel. No attempt to up serve me, learn my reason for being in the area, try to help me to feel comfortable, smart, safe or confident deciding to book with the hotel. MORE
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Of course, nothing is as they expect when they come to the run-down hotel. The enterprising hotel owner jokes that he is going to start a service through which other nations can outsource their elderly to India.
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When you are speaking at an event that is NOT in a hotel setting, you must pay particular attention to making sure you have everything you need to make a smooth event. Here's a brief checklist of things that may not be available if you aren't in a hotel: Projection Screen Flip Chart Extension cords Power strips Ice Refreshments, coffee, juice, water, etc.
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The annual Ragan Speechwriters Conference was held March 20 – 22, 2013 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. I was not able to attend this year, but, like anyone who has access to Twitter, I enjoyed following the conference virtually via the hashtag #raganspeech.
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The annual Ragan Speechwriters Conference was held March 14 – 16, 2012 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. Over 200 professional speechwriters met for two days and attended a series of main stage keynotes and break out sessions. Unlike other Ragan Conferences I’ve attended, where I had to select a small number of “top [.]. Speechwriting Ragan Speechwriters Conference Twitter
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Too many conferences are painful to attend; lengthy keynote speeches in windowless hotel rooms, rubber chicken and endless PowerPoint conspire to dull the senses. The recent Tech Policy Summit at the Silverado Country Club in the Napa Valley was a well organized and engaging event. This event was an exception. Here’s a list of the [.]. Business Communication Technology #TPS2012 Tech Policy Summit
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At this precise moment I’m in Johannesburg, sitting in a hotel lobby, and waiting for my hotel room to become available. The hotel has WiFi. Technology used well can bring extra impact to your presentation.
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The first day of the 2012 Ragan Speechwriters Conference at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC concluded with a blue-ribbon panel of former Presidential speechwriters (from both parties) calling for more discipline on the part of contenders for the USA’s highest office.
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FEBRUARY 11, 2010
Right now I am sitting in the opening session at the Ragan Speechwriters Conference in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. The event just began and already the energy is amazing. Paul Murphy, chief speechwriter at General Motors, is giving the opening keynote - describing the role executive communications played in the reinvention of the [.].
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This full-day program, the day before the Toastmasters International Convention in Las Vegas, will be held at the convention venue, Caesar’s Palace Hotel, on August 11, 2015. Become a Professional Speaker. Achieve your Accredited Speaker Designation. This program will be presented by your Toastmasters Accredited Speakers. For more information. Presentation Skills accredited speaker become professional speaker
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It was in the brandname Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali that the terrorism took place. That could be a concert hall or hotel. Likely the terrorists' agenda includes discouraging human beings from being in a brandname edifice.
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This one is being held at the Orlando World Center Marriott Hotel next to the Magic Kingdom. In a few short days I’m off to Orlando for my 6th National Speakers Association Convention. Six years after my first convention I’ve learned that advanced planning is a necessity. So, in addition to following some great tips [.].
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NOVEMBER 15, 2017
There are weak condo sales at Trump Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower. Meanwhile, the overall New York City market for hotel rooms and condo sales has reached the saturation point. Anti-Trump factions may not have to wait for impeachment threats to be rid of the current U.S.
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She would respond to their ads, showing up in their hotel rooms, then robbing them. He died of the wounds in the upscale Donovan Hotel. Jamyra Gallmon had been a model student, never in trouble with the law. Then she got clever. She cooked up a scam to shake down men seeking gay sex.
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Here is how a luxury hotel “operator” answered my call today: (Think blah.) “He…llo… This is Name of Hotel. No attempt to up serve me, learn my reason for being in the area, try to help me to feel comfortable, smart, safe or confident deciding to book with the hotel.
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She decided to go to the hotel and offer to “purchase” a hotel uniform worn by one of the women at the front desk— if she was lucky enough to find a 6 ft. She arrived at the hotel, walked up to the front desk manager and explained the bind she was in.
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