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Saturday, July 13, 2019 / WATER MILL                                                                                                                   MIDSUMMER PARTY, PARRISH ART MUSEUM,

The highlight of the Hamptons summer social season, this annual event brings together over 500 artists, philanthropists, business leaders & art world guests in support of the Parrish.

Honorees: Maya Lin, Louise & Leonard Riggio.  Co-Chairs: Deborah F. Bancroft, Preston T. Phillips                               

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9008971896?profile=originalTravelers can be environmentally conscious when going on vacation, and it doesn’t take much effort or time. Little things add up, and if everyone followed these sustainable travel tips, communities and the planet would benefit in amazing ways.

 

9008963894?profile=original10 Easy & Simple Sustainable Travel Tips

  1.  Re-use your hotel towels and sheets; don’t ask for new ones every day (you don’t at home!).
  2. Turn off the lights and air conditioner when leaving your hotel room.
  3. Don’t leave the sink tap or shower running water unnece
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In today’s world the sharing economy or collaborative consumption is changing the way we do business and we socialize with others.


Some experts believe that this new trend is the next generation of the internet, which provides the social context for a peer-to-peer connections. The sharing economy is a revolution of underutilized time, space, skills and resources.

Today anyone can be a tour guide a car rental agency, a professor, offer his home as a hotel or offer other services. People can save

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Sympho's immersive "Ascending Darkness" is on May 8, 2013 at 8 p.m. at Manhattan's famed Church of the Ascension. Church of the Ascension at Fifth Ave & 10th St, NYC. For tickets & details: http://www.symphoconcerts.org/tickets.php

Don't miss Sympho's newest concert experience, "Ascending Darkness." Join us as we transport you into a gorgeous, meditative, spiritual place. In this dream-state, we will follow our archetypal hero on a quest for enlightenment. Layers of darkness and light assist as m

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Will buying an airline ticket soon be as personalized as buying a suit from a sales person? Probably, as trends go.

It's no surprise that airlines want to personalize their relationships to their customers. If they can figure out how, it would be a huge step toward making the ticket-buying process a lot more individualized, and rewarding.

And why shouldn't it be?
After all, buy a book from Amazon or any savvy online retailer, and you're guided to other books you might like based on your readin

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From NMT Images

Please watch the 1- minute, Travel Video PostCard at the end of this post

 

New Innkeepers Use Social Media To Attract New Guests

In the highly individualistic culture of the Bed and Breakfast business, Tim and Amy Brady are fast becoming the "go to" couple for B and B owners and operators eager to gain access to the powers of social media marketing, and improving the guest experiences in the process.

The 30 something, very cool  couple are decidedly not what one thinks of when one th

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Friday, February. 22, 2013
The GlamourGals Foundation Hosts “Illuminate” Cocktail Benefit “Expect the Unexpected” The 3rd annual Illuminate, held in support of the GlamourGals Foundation, will take place at the Museum of the City of NY at 1220 5th Ave, NYC, from 7-11 pm. Join special hosts for an evening of cocktails, dancing, live and silent auctions, exclusive gallery access, plus some extraordinary entertainment. Guests will have exclusive access to the galleries at the Museum of the City of

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Social media continues to be the hot topic, and while many peoplehave jumped on the bandwagon, there are still those looking to learn more, especially when it comesto utilizing these new tools to grow their business. This year, THETRADESHOW (Orlando Sept. 12-14)has lined up a full array of seminars, covering everything from YouTube marketing to the basics of blogging.

“The growth of social media and evolution of technology provides new opportunities for travel agenciesto connect with their custom
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Postcard from the Future – Events 2020

I was recently commissioned by BT Publishing, producers of Micenet Australia,Australia’s leading bi-monthly publication for the business events community, to ponder how events might be in the year 2020, here is a
reprint of the article:

Postcard from the Future – Events 2020


I’m sitting here in August 2020, preparing for another conference keynote and reminiscing on how the business events, meetings, exhibition and incentives industry has changed over the last 10 years and how much of it is still

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Cruise Lines Sail the Social Media Seas

The captain of the Oasis of the Seas may have driven the 5,400 passenger cruise ship into Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades last fall, but it was Social Media channels that drove the Royal Caribbean's cruise ship, the world's largest, onto Google's most-searched list.

Travel trade publication Travel Weekly reported that as of a couple of weeks ago, 10 million unique visitors made their way to OasisoftheSea.com, and a whopping 200,000 people
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Innkeepers Meet the Social Web: Will They Ever Be The Same

Brian and Leslie Mulcahy work very hard for their accolades and consistently outstanding reviews by always being there for their guests.
"It’s not easy,” say the innkeepers of the quintessential New England inn, Rabbit Hill Inn, in the Currier and Ives town of Lower Waterford, Vermont.
But Leslie is reading Groundswell ("winning in a world transformed by social technologies,"), which sounds the clarion call for a social tools-based mind se
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