KCMPI Member Announcements

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Congratulations to Tricia Clement, of AGENDA: Kansas City, for earning her CMP designation!  Tricia is the Manager for the Events Division of AGENDA: Kansas City, Inc.  Way to go, Tricia!  In addition, Tricia was recently elected as the 2009 President of the Kansas City Chapter of the National Association of Catering Executives.  Congratulations, Tricia!

Congratulations to Vanessa Kane, CMP, CMM, who is now a Certified Meeting Manager!  This is a designation that only a select few have achieved.  We'd also like to applaud Vanessa for her community involvement.  She currently serves on the following City Advisory Boards:

San Antonio - 2008-2010

Salt Lake City - 2009-2011

Milwaukee - 2006-2008, Invited to participate again in 2009-2011

Vanessa describes her role as such: "Each advisory board is similar - bringing together meeting planners from varied backgrounds to discuss experience with cities/meetings and how the cities can better market to planners in general.  This is not meant to be construed as soliciting business from any of the planners for a particular city.  However, most of the participation is from planners who have had experience within that particular city and know how the city can learn from those experiences and market to other planners of similar backgrounds."  Great Job, Vanessa!  You make our KCMPI Chapter proud. 

Kudos to Marlys Arnold, who was invited to speak at MPI's MeetDifferent in Atlanta, Georgia.  Her session, "Podcasts, Wikis & Blogs ... Oh, My!" was created for our KCMPI Professional Education Conference last year.  Word got around, and MPI Headquarters invited her to present that topic at MeetDifferent.  You can listen to Marlys' session online, as well as many others from the conference, at: http://www.mpiweb.org/cms/mpiweb/pec2009/peccommon.aspx?id=23154.