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New York may have too many arenas—a number that will grow to five when Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards facility opens sometime in the next few years—and not enough events to fill them. [NYT]
An environmentally friendly 26-story hotel on Varick Street will be powered by solar energy, with glass that could generate as much as 100 kilowatts of power. [NYO]
There's also another hotel planned, this time a 24-floor, 175-room Midtown site from Extell Development. [NYO]
The owners of Brooklyn Bowl, the bowling and entertainment venue expected to open this week, took care to create an eco-friendly site. [NYT]
The New York City Marines' sold-out Mess Night dinner Photo: Alexis Corchado for BizBash
There's pretty much only one hard, fast rule at most fund-raising events: donate some cash. The Marines, however, don't really play like that. Potential infractions that could be committed at the second annual New York City Marine Corps Council's "Mess Night" benefit on Tuesday evening included "placing elbows on the table," "consulting the time," and "arriving late to appointed places." Should any of the many violations be noticed by the evening's enforcer, "Mister Vice," the Mess president determined an appropriate fine to be paid by the renegade guest. For the uninitaited, the proceedings of a Mess Night can be a tad stressful, but also fun.
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Monster's Keep America Working Tour Photo: Courtesy of Monster.com
The demand for jobs has been particularly high in 2009, and to accommodate the need, online job placement service Monster.com decided to revamp its touring career fair by producing it in-house and making 140 stops in the U.S. alone throughout the year. Monster Worldwide Inc. senior director of global events Phil Cavanagh oversees all of the company’s corporate events and trade shows and worked with his team to launch Keep America Working. He spoke with us about what Monster did to make the tour's rigorous schedule go smoothly and how career fairs seem particularly rewarding in this economic climate.
How is the Keep America Working Tour different than previous Monster.com job fairs?
Our old model was a straightforward career fair. Job seekers would come in, present resumes to recruiters and then leave. It used to be managed through a third party, but this time we decided to do it all in-house by our global events team.
We looked at people's needs this year, and we found that they're really just looking for information and a sense of empowerment. So we created the event with three components. It does have the recruiting area where employers interact with the job seekers, but we've added a theater presentation that has our career experts telling people how to stand out in the market and a kiosk area that shows attendees how to use the different career tools on Monster.com.
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New York's chapter of the International Special Events Society held its annual Big Apple Awards last night at the Lighthouse at Pier 61, and the group marked its 21st anniversary by doubling the number of award categories—and winners—to recognize new and nontraditional achievements in events.
In addition to praising work from the past year, the Big Apple Awards honored event professionals for career-spanning contributions to the industry. Four people were inducted into the ISES Hall of Legends: Compass Group premiere hospitality division C.E.O. Dick Cattani, IMG Fashion senior vice president Fern Mallis, Jack Morton Worldwide chairman and C.E.O. Josh McCall, and New York International Automobile Show show director Candida Romanelli.
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Cancer101's interactive entertainment Photo: Dan Hallman for BizBash
Nasty weather—not to mention the economy—threatened Tuesday’s Cancer 101 benefit, but in the end neither put much of a damper on the cocktail party fund-raiser. The planners of the event, where guests included cancer survivors and their caregivers, settled on a circus theme because “we wanted to celebrate all the people who do survive,” said Susan Shin of Shin Advisors, which co-produced the event with Bon Vivant. “Plus—and you’re going to laugh—we liked the alliteration of Big Top at the Bowery.”
The evening’s entertainment at the Bowery Hotel was in keeping with the circus theme: Circulating among the 315 guests were a juggler, magician, tarot card reader, contortionist, Hula-hoop dancer (with extra hoops for partygoers), and a man on stilts. Before performing, Broadway in South Africa—a nonprofit troupe of Broadway artists—walked the room, the men dressed in sparkling tuxes and top hats, the women wearing body suits, fishnets, and feathers. Guests ate popcorn and cotton candy in addition to passed hors d’oeuvres served by men in suspenders and colorful, oversize clown ties.
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La Cense Beef's new burger truck Photo: Courtesy of La Cense Beef
La Cense Beef, a Montana-based company specializing in all-natural, grass-fed meat, entered the food truck fray last week with the debut of its new burger truck. The menu is simple: six-ounce Angus burgers ($7 each or $7.50 with cheese), potato chips ($1), and a few beverages. In addition to making stops throughout Manhattan, the truck can also make appearances at events throughout the five boroughs. For $4,600, La Cense will provide 200 burgers over the course of four hours. Each additional burger is $7 and there is an extra charge if the event is in the evening or on a Sunday. —Lisa Cericola
After years as a corporate headhunter and résumé doctor, Stephen Viscusi has taken on the role of job retention expert. His most recent book, Bulletproof Your Job: 4 Simple Strategies to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out on Top at Work, offers tips for people sweating out the uncertain job market.
How can people best prove their worth in the workplace today?
The most important thing is to establish a personal relationship with your boss, and your boss’s boss, so that they know you as an individual. The hiring process today sterilizes who we are, and it means that bosses don’t often know their staff. Nobody likes firing people, but it’s easier to fire someone you don’t really know.
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This story originally appeared in the most recent issue of our magazine; subsequently the subject, Liz Glover Wilson, left her job at iStar Financial to start her own event and fund-raising company for nonprofits, Elizabeth Rose Consulting. Before she left, Glover Wilson expanded her two staffers' job descriptions, and they were promoted and remain at the company. One of her first clients is the iStar Charity Foundation, and she'll be hosting its annual charity shootout in July. Here's our original story.
Liz Glover Wilson has spent nearly 13 years at iStar Financial, steadily increasing her presence at the company by centralizing its approach to meetings and events and rising to vice president of corporate events. Now that funds are being taken from her department, she approaches every project with an argument for its necessity, and so far, she’s making her point.
How She’s Already Proven Her Worth When Glover Wilson joined the real estate investment firm in 1996, planning its events was a one-woman job. She spent her first few years running 35 big events a year on a shoestring budget and eventually implemented a standard by which all iStar events are produced. Glover Wilson now has oversight of all meetings and event initiatives nationwide, so whether someone in her department or an administrative assistant plans them, they should deliver a consistent brand message and use her proven cost-saving methods.
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Cost Savings Nothing speaks to employers like the bottom line, so you should already be keeping track of how much money you’ve managed to save through negotiations, partnerships, and minor budget-saving adjustments.
“Even more than the economy today, people are worried about future money,” says Gen Art New York event director Kaki Stergiou. “Something I would have hired a freelancer for, I’m now hiring volunteers [to do], on the promise of partnering with them on something else. And for venues that are hesitant to give a low rate, I’ve gotten discounts for signing on to do two [events] in a year instead of just one.”
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FROM LOS ANGELES After Michael Jackson died suddenly on Thursday afternoon, BET worked fast to transform its already-scheduled awards on Sunday at the Shrine Auditorium into a tribute to the pop star. And, in addition to being what some would consider an appropriate format change for a show celebrating black entertainment, the modified broadcast was also a boon for the network: It was the top-watched cable telecast this year and BET's biggest audience ever, according to a press release from the network.
The live broadcast, hosted by Jamie Foxx, drew 10.65 million viewers. About 10 percent of televisions that were on during the broadcast period were tuned to the awards program, uncommonly high for a cable network, according to Nielsen Media Research findings cited in The Los Angeles Times.
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