Archive for May, 2009

The Weekly Might Have Missed List (05/31/09)

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Meet Prepared — Contingency 101: Retail Event’s Not So Grand Opening Everything went well, he told me, except that they forgot to plan for a sudden rainstorm. Sure enough, it rained. When I asked what they did, he replied: “Panic ensued.” Although we as professionals will typically work out an inside venue back-up location should [...]

Sotomayor’s Scrambled Script

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

As I was listening to Nina Totenberg’s story about the Sotomayor nomination this morning on NPR News, an incidental detail mentioned at the very end caught my attention: All went incredibly smoothly except for one thing: White House aides scrambled the pages of Sotomayor’s remarks in the book they placed on the lectern for her [...]

The Weekly Might Have Missed List (05/24/09)

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager…  — Air Walls and The Cranky Customer The other day we had two different groups on either side of the ballroom airwall – one was a small group of around 35 people with a presentation and the other side was a group of 110 pharmaceutical sales reps. [...]

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