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June 2004
| June 1, 2004 full issue in PDF format |
| Donations Don’t Always Mean ‘Free’ Scouring the planet for donations can be your reason for living some days, especially if you are planning an auction, an awards banquet, a reception, a walk-a-thon, or anything that requires you to wear your fund-raiser hat for the day. Sometimes, a person’s or group’s amazing generosity befalls you, making securing a donation easier than you’d expected. But recipients beware! That donation might come with an unseen string that may actually hurt your budget. |
| ‘The Donald’ of Hotel College Teaches Her Apprentices Aimee Brizuela, a graduate of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas’ William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, recently gave back to her college in a big way. |
| Time to Update Your Communication Style? Try this exercise to determine whether you can respond to frustrating situations in a more effective, professional manner. |
| New Student Orientation Trends More and more new student orientation programs are stressing intellectual as well as social connections through assigned readings, discussion groups, and closer interaction with faculty. Trends include summer reading assignments, community service projects, and extending orientation sessions for more than one week. But whatever the approach, the key is designing a program that reflects your individual campus’ spirit and focus. Here is a look at what different campuses around the country are emphasizing: |
| Adapting Others’ Event Ideas: Creativity or Stealing? By Drew Allen Miller, president, Board Report Publications Today, copyright infringement lawsuits and other intellectual property litigations are reaching epidemic proportions. Writers, artists, designers, and musicians are making headlines for illegally using someone else’s idea. And it naturally strikes fear in the hearts of those who design meetings and events. But that doesn’t mean we can never use someone else’s idea. Let me explain: The problem arises when we don’t use enough of other peoples’ ideas. |
| Upping Your IQ (Idea Quotient) Creative people aren’t always born—sometimes they’re self-made, says Drew Allen Miller, president of Board Report Publications Co., Inc., a company that helps corporate and business leaders and their employees learn how to become more innovative. Try two or three of Miller’s easy and fun exercises every day and watch how quickly you generate event ideas on a consistent basis. |
| Survey of Event Professionals Reveals Dedication, Enthusiasm By Kathy Nelson, CSEP, CMP, University of Nevada-Las Vegas For most of us, our occupation is not merely a means of earning an income. A study I conducted this year of 527 event professionals reveals that they entered the field for the chance to be “all that they can be.” |
| Why Event Professionals Enter the Field Why do event professionals enter the field? What skills do they need to succeed? The editor of Campus Events Professional recently posed these questions to more than 500 people in event management. Here are their answers. |
