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In changed landscape, Salt Lake City’s convention business finds right personal touch

0 Comments Published by les April 20th, 2010 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Customer Service, Public Relations, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

In a classic TV commercial, a CEO informs his executive staff that the company had just lost a long-standing client who had been taken for granted when it came to personal communication. He then hands out airline tickets to everybody in the board room, telling them they are going to reconnect personally with every company [...]

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Eight years after hosting Olympics, Salt Lake City and other Utah cities find fruitful legacy

0 Comments Published by les February 8th, 2010 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Public Relations, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

Although it has been eight years since Salt Lake City dispensed itself well as the host of the 2002 Winter Olympics, the city’s travel and tourism portfolio continues to benefit handsomely from the highly valued visibility of this global event as evidenced in previous Selective Echo posts here, here and here. “We have an opportunity [...]

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Salt Lake City convention bookings look promising in recession-tinted picture

1 Comment Published by les October 20th, 2009 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Customer Service, Public Relations, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

Note: Photos courtesy of Ben Crosby. Top is the opening event for Meeting Professionals International delegates held in July on the City Library Plaza. The bottom photo is the closing event at the Red Butte Garden. There is no doubt that Scott Beck, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau, relishes [...]

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Plan-B Theatre, Utah AIDS Foundation stage timely reading of ‘The Normal Heart’ ---
Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez kindly provides some follow-up commentary to the reading of Larry Kramer’s work The Normal Heart staged by Plan-B Theatre and the Utah AIDS Foundation. In 1985, Kramer’s work clearly laid out the experiences of the earliest days of the AIDS crisis. Stark and brutal in themes, the play also faced down [...]
SLC filmmaker Andrew James finds a hopeful oasis in Detroit’s blighted landscape ---
‘It’s a war of little battles. The residents fight by lighting their yards, videotaping drug deals, harassing scrappers and chasing off thieves. Their enemy attacks in shocking ways. Like taking over the homes of bedridden old people. Like recruiting kids as dope-house spotters and runners. Like killing people’s dogs.’ – Detroitblogger John, Metro Times, 2010 [...]
Why Sandstrom’s proposed illegal immigration enforcement act is ‘Arizona Light’ ---
Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, a regular correspondent lays out in concise, terse, brilliant form Stephen Sandstrom’s latest foray into making legislation that is ridiculously untenable and intellectually embarrassing. By the way, readers looking to make some intelligible sense of the mindset of Sandstrom and countless other elected officials on this particular issue, please consider Peter [...]
Pride redux: another Latino step forward ---
Editor’s Note: The following is a great piece by Mark Alvarez, our resident contributor who also is an attorney and a frequent commentator on immigration issue. Who says Latinos are slow for freedom? Argentina now has marriage equality. On Wednesday, Luis Majul wrote in his column (Spanish version) for the Argentine daily La Nación: The [...]
‘The Empress’, ‘X-ing’, ‘DemiUrge Emesis’ take top honors at Utah Arts Festival’s Fear No Film ---
Twelve awards were announced today in the Fear No Film portion of the Utah Arts Festival, including a Grand Jury Prize, Utah Short Film of The Year, Fear No Filmmaker Award, three honorable mentions, and the best film in each of six of seven categories around which the film festival was organized. The Empress by [...]