Chinese takeout
Atlanta’s Bluepointe has a fun takeaway for groups dining at the Buckhead Life restaurant. Playing off its Asian-themed cuisine, gift boxes contain fortune cookies, a bottle of sake, and are fastened with a pair of silver chopsticks.
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Current: December 2008
High-tech conversation starter
ResponseWare Web by Turning Technologies LLC is a Web-based polling system that allows attendees to actively participate in meetings via cell phones, smartphones and laptops with an Internet connection. The technology allows team members in multiple locations to give instantaneous feedback to speakers giving PowerPoint presentations.
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Green governor
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has given the Florida hotel industry a green incentive. Since Jan. 1, hotels have had to have Florida Green Lodging certification in order to be considered host sites for government-sponsored meetings. Currently, 54 Florida hotels have earned the “Green Lodging” designation from the Department of Environmental Protection; 207 hotels have [...]
Public service
When the Hyatt Regency San Antonio decided to implement eco-friendly measures, it didn’t stop at installing CFL lightbulbs or recycling. With support from VIA Metropolitan Transit and San Antonio partnership, the hotel distributed 375 bus passes to workers, providing free public transportation to and from work through 2008. Each active bus pass is estimated to [...]
Give me some peanuts and chardonnay!
Looking for a fun baseball-themed gift? Charity Wines partners with sports heroes and celebrities to create fine wines that support local charities. Among the branded wines are Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine’s Cabernet Glavingnon, Boston Red Sox David Ortiz’s Vintage Papi and New York Yankee Jose Reyes’ CaberReyes. The winery also produces branded vintages for Cincinnati, [...]
Make an impression
As meeting planners, we want to create magic moments. Motiva helps you preserve them and cleverly package them for attendees. In addition to traditional corporate photography-based services (hardcover books, digiframes, green screen fantasy photo booths and music videos, DVDs, photo mosiacs and online photo galleries) the company has several team-building programs, including movie-making, timed missions, [...]
Free rice
Who knew you could get smarter and help end hunger at the same time? FreeRice.com is an online game that donates grains of rice every time you answer a vocabulary question correctly. (Don’t worry, it doesn’t shut off if you get a few wrong.) Logging in allows you to keep track of how much rice [...]
‘Mountain Town’ DVD
Meeting in Aspen/Snowmass, Colo., and looking for a cool takeaway? “Mountain Town,” an award-winning documentary, is available in a special collector’s edition. The movie was filmed entirely on-location and features 11 local characters, including 2008 Winter X Games Champion Gretchen Bleiler, and 10th Mountain Division soldier and renowned artist Gino Hollander.
