The HSMAI South Florida chapter's April meeting was held at the Mai Kai Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale. A special thank you to Pia and her staff, especially Angel, at the Mai Kai for all their assistance in making the event a success. And who didn't love those 2-for-1 cocktail hour specials? We had a nice crowd -- about 65 people -- who turned out for the educational presentation, dinner and Polynesian revue show. As you probably know, the Mai Kai's been a landmark tourist attraction in Fort Lauderdale since 1956. It was so nice for us long-timers to see it again and for our "newbies" to visit it for the first time -- part of our continuing "fam" to educate our members on our local venues and hot spots. After opening remarks from our prez, Fernando Harb, in which he outlined national's programs, SIGs, upcoming events, and our chapter's events, he also welcomed our new Managing Director (yours truly) and our special guests.
Great to have Jennifer Stewart with Women In Distress joining us. Then we were treated to a great program by Dan Alpert, President of SFIMA, on the upcoming trends in interactive marketing and emerging technology. Our meeting was a little different than usual -- we normally have more networking time during registration -- and we usually do a web cast of our event; However, due to time constraints for the show time and the venue setup, we went almost immediately into our program and we did not web cast our event -- instead we videotaped it. Thanks, as always, to Dan Cohen, Media 17. Some of our previous programs which were web cast are available by visiting: http://www.media17.com/hsmai It’s especially nice, since we now cover a very wide geographic area, that our members can still enjoy our educational programs even if they can't be at our meetings in person. In addition, Jay Guttveg, Creative Focus, Inc., our chapter's official photographer, was busy taking pictures of our attendees. Some of those pictures are now posted on our website, so check them out, too.
We want to give special recognition to both Dan and Jay for something in addition to their regular filming and picture-taking tasks. They were both so very wonderful to donate their meetings fees -- this enabled us to "treat" two of our student chapter members. Thank you Dan and Jay!The food at the Mai Kai was outstanding, as well. Heard a few people say they wished they could have asked for a doggie bag to take home some of that delicious steak! As always, great to see some old friends and make new ones. Our May meeting is a lunch at the Tower Club (downtown Fort Lauderdale) and with a Port Everglades update. So mark your calendars for Wednesday, May 21st. Reservations can be made online at www.hsmaisouthflorida.org.
AND of course, you've already saved the date for our 25th Annual Auction and Charity event at Tatiana's in Hallandale on Thursday evening, June 12th, right? We're still collecting auction prizes so please donate whatever you can.
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Both the students said they had an amazing time! Thank-you!
Christine Greenley
FIU Collegiate Chapter President
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