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Monday
March 15 |
Creating Award Submittals that Shine |
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Registration: 3:45 PM
Program: 4-6 PM
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Within the A/E/C industry, it is important to achieve recognition for your firm by demonstrating quality of work, performance, or both. Winning awards for your firm is a powerful strategy in achieving this type of recognition and can often be leveraged to win more work. Join us to explore this topic. Our hand selected panel of experts, with experience both judging and developing award-winning submittals, will share tips and strategies for creating submittals that stand above the competition.
This program was rescheduled from an earlier date due to weather. Please note your registration will be transferred to this new date. The event will be now be held at NEXUS Green Building Resource Center, 38 Chauncy Street, Boston.
If you had registered for this session's earlier date (2/10/10) and are not able to attend on this new date, please let us know and we will assist you in cancelling your registration.
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Wednesday
March 17 |
SMPS ROC Awards: Marketing Executive & New Member of the Year Nominations Due |
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5:00 PM
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2009 was a challenging year for the A/E/C industry; now it's time to Move Forward and celebrate the individuals who helped carry our firms through the economic shifts of the recent past! Begin the new year by nominating standout marketers for the SMPS Boston ROC (Recognizing Outstanding Communications) Marketing Executive or New Member of the Year Award. Nominations are due to Danielle Jackson by March 17th at 5 PM.
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Friday
March 19 |
Deadline to Submit Build Boston Abstracts |
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4 PM
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As a part of our mission to educate SMPS members and others who work in the built environment, SMPS Boston sponsors a number of workshops at Build Boston each year. If you are interested in submitting an abstract to Build Boston on any marketing or business-development topic, SMPS Boston would be pleased to act as a sponsor. For more information or for help organizing your abstract, please contact Pat Tracy-Callahan, SMPS Education Committee member, at ptracy-callahan@vhb.com.
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Wednesday
April 7 |
Shaping Greater Boston: Urban Planning and Development Initiatives featuring Somerville, Salem, and Lowell |
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7:30 - 8:00 AM (Networking)
8:00 - 8:30 AM (Breakfast)
8:30 - 9:45 AM (Presentation)
9:45 - 10:00 AM (Q&A)
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Final Breakfast Program of the Season
The Programs Committee is pleased to have representatives from three major cities presenting their upcoming Urban Planning and Development initiatives. Our distinguished panel includes Joseph A. Curtatone (Mayor of Somerville), Kimberley Driscoll (Mayor of Salem), and Adam Baacke, AICP (Assistant City Manager and Director of Planning and Development for the City of Lowell). Please join us and learn more about what is on the horizon in each of these cities.
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Wednesday
April 14 |
SMPS Boston Recognizing Outstanding Communications (ROC) Awards Call for Entries |
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5:00 PM
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2009 was a challenging year for the A/E/C industry; now it's time Move Forward and focus on our achievements and successes! SMPS Boston is looking for your entries for the 2010 Recognizing Outstanding Communications (ROC) Awards. Awards submissions are due by April 14th at 5 PM.
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Wednesday
April 14 |
Verbal Branding for Your Firm |
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Registration: 3:30 PM
Program: 4 PM - 6 PM
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Join SMPS Boston as Steven Melanson of Melanson Consulting discusses verbal branding as a new branding application for selling, culture, and brand density. Participants will learn how to replace the elevator pitch mindset forever; begin and end branding projects on a more productive basis; manage any length of spoken interaction relative to your best marketplace positioning; and have employees and the public more easily gravitate to your brand.
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Tuesday
May 18 |
Principals of Marketing |
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Registration and Networking: 7:30 am
Program: 8:00 am - 10:00 am
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Enjoy a lively discussion about marketing in the AEC industry from the perspectives of four locally and nationally recognized principals. Join SMPS National President Tom Smith of BonTerra Consulting as he moderates this panel with guests Ed Bond, CEO of Bond Brothers; Dean Groves, President/CEO of Fay, Spofford & Thorndike; and Charles Tseckares; Principal of CBT Architects. Each principal is responsible for the successes of their firms. Come and learn how they do it and how they lean upon the value of SMPS to assist them.
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Thursday
June 3 |
SMPS Boston Recognizing Outstanding Communications (ROC) Awards Gala |
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6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
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Now that the dust seems to have settled from the economic shifts of the last few years, how will you Move Forward? Come celebrate the past year's greatest marketing efforts and gain inspiration for the future at SMPS Boston's second annual Recognizing Outstanding Communications (ROC) Awards! The 2010 ROC Awards Gala "Moving Forward" will take place on June 3, 2010 at the Seaport Lighthouse in Boston.
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Wednesday
July 14 |
Build Business: SMPS National Conference |
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SMPS's National Conference is coming to Boston! Visit http://www.buildbusiness.org/ for more information.
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Wednesday
July 14 |
The Annual SMPS Boston Charity Golf Tournament presented by Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers |
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7:00 AM Bus leaves Marriott Copley Hotel
7:30 AM Registration/breakfast
9:00 AM Shotgun start
12:00 PM Golf clinic
2:00 PM Lunch
4:00 PM Bus returns to hotel
6:00 PM Welcome reception for Build Business at Marriott Copley Hotel
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Kick off the national SMPS national conference in Boston this year with a day of golf.
This year's tournament is being held on the first day of the Build Business Conference, and is expected to sell out fast. Take a break from the winter blahs today to reserve your spot!
Please join us Wednesday, July 14th at Granite Links Golf Club at Quarry Hill in Quincy, Mass. was named one of the "Top Ten Best New Upscale Golf Courses in the Country" by Golf Digest magazine, and features breathtaking views of Boston's skyline and the Harbor Islands.
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