Next Wednesday: June Program Luncheon & RPA Recognition to Feature Olympic Gold Medalist Jason Lezak | |
Please join us on June 9th at the Blackstone Hotel (626 S. Michigan Ave.) as we welcome Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Jason Lezak. Lezak is best known for anchoring the US men's 400-meter freestyle relay team in the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing--stealing the Gold from the French. He also dominated the last leg of the 4 x 100 Men's Medley Relay, winning the Gold for his team and securing Michael Phelps' record 8th Gold medal.
His talk will center on maintaining a work-life balance, teamwork, leadership and dedication and commitment through adversity.
All recent (past 3 years) RPA designees will be recognized at this event and will be offered a half-price ticket.
550 West Washington (Jones Lang LaSalle), 191 N. Wacker (Manulife Financial), and the Aon Center (Jones Lang LaSalle) will each be recognized for their 2010 Regional TOBY wins.
If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please email Matt Smith at msmith@bomachicago.org for more information.
PRICING & REGISTRATION
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Last Call for RPA Designees
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Have you received your RPA designation in the past three years? If so, BOMA/Chicago wants to know so we can recognize your achievement at the Program Luncheon on June 9 at the Blackstone Hotel. Please email Matt Smith with your information.
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BOMA/Chicago Welcomes Beth Halat as new Director of Member Services
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BOMA/Chicago is pleased to announce that Beth Halat joined the office as Director of Member Services earlier this week. Beth joins us after spending eight years with Corporate Concierge Services--most recently serving as Vice President of Sales & Marketing.
You can reach Beth via email at bhalat@bomachicago.org and by phone directly at 312-870-9606.
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A Free Brown Bag Seminar: The Top Ten Reasons for Modernization
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
12:00-1:30pm: Bring Your Lunch
115 S. LaSalle
(The Harris Bank Building)
Eighth Floor Conference Center Rooms 801/802
In this economic climate reclaiming an existing building and upgrading the building in order to retain tenants and attract new ones, while being financially viable is a challenge. The following topics will be discussed:
10. Accommodating governmental mandates
9. Energy and pay back
8. System obsolescence
7. The effect of changing technology
6. Tenant retention and amenities
5. Workplace efficiencies
4. Incorporating a multigenerational workforce
3. Building culture (Wellness in the workplace)
2. Financial planning to avoid emergency expenditures
1. Enhancing the asset to maintain equity value
For a complete session description, please visit the "Top 10 Reasons for Modernization" page.
RSVP:
Brown Bag Lunches are free for BOMA/Chicago members. To register, please email info@bomachicago.org and enter "Modernization Brown Bag" in the subject line |
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Twitter Tutorial: To Tweet or Not to Tweet | |
Please join us on Wednesday morning, June 23 from 8:00-9:15 am in the BOMA/Chicago conference room for our next installment of our Social Media Seminar Series.
This free, hands-on, interactive session will demystify Twitter for individuals new to social networking and Twitter users who want to become more successful at utilizing the application. The session will equip attendees with the tools necessary to create a Twitter feed, post content (tweet), gain followers and engage in meaningful conversations with other members of the CRE industry. You'll also learn about Twitter's unique terminology, proper etiquette for tweeting, how to tweet on the go and best practices for utilizing Twitter effectively.
Like our previous session, this seminar is available excluisively to BOMA/Chicago Members and is expected to fill-up quickly. Because of the hands-on nature of the session, we are limiting this seminar to the first 30 individuals who reply.
If you will be able to attend, please email Matt Smith at BOMA/Chicago with your name and the names of any colleagues who wish to attend. |
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BOMA/Chicago Adds Twitter to Social Networking Menu | |
We're excited to announce that BOMA/Chicago is now on Twitter! Make sure to follow us at @BOMAChicago for local and national commercial real estate industry news, as well as Chicago happenings.
We'll use Twitter to engage and share information with our members, CRE industry professionals and organizations and Chicago influencers. We look forward to tweeting with you!
As a reminder, BOMA/Chicago is also active in the social networking realm with a Facebook page and a LinkedIn page.
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Please Consider Hosting a BOMA/Chicago Seminar | |
The Education Committee is grateful to the many members who allow us to use meeting space in their buildings for our education programs. They make it possible for us to offer more than 40 free training programs each year.
Even so, we have the "fortunate problem" of not having enough space to accommodate all of our members who want to attend our most popular seminars. For example, our LEED Lessons Learned series of seminars is nearly "sold out" for the entire year because we have already enrolled the maximum number of students for our classroom. If your building or your company has a conference room that will comfortably seat 100 or more, and if you would allow BOMA/Chicago to use the room at no charge for our member education programs, please contact info@bomachicago.org. With your help, we can make sure that all of our members who want to take advantage of our seminars have the opportunity to attend.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS | | |
June Program Luncheon
Wednesday, June 9
Blackstone Hotel |
Free Brown Bag:
Top 10 Reasons for Modernization
12:00-1:30 PM
Wednesday, June 16
115 S. LaSalle St.
8th Floor Conf. Center |
Register
Social Networking Session #2: To Tweet or Not to Tweet
8:00-9:15 AM Wednesday, June 23
115 S. LaSalle St. #2300
2010 BOMA/Chicago Golf Classic Presented by Rex Electric
Thursday, August 12
Cog Hill Golf Club
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