Comments on: Do I really want to get back to the “abyss”? http://www.willhsiung.com/tmblog/2009/05/10/do-i-really-want-to-get-back-to-the-abyss/ Tales from a die-hard Toastmaster Tue, 10 May 2011 13:20:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Some thoughts leading to the District 30 Fall Conference http://www.willhsiung.com/tmblog/2009/05/10/do-i-really-want-to-get-back-to-the-abyss/comment-page-1/#comment-2858 Some thoughts leading to the District 30 Fall Conference Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:17:22 +0000 http://www.willhsiung.com/tmblog/?p=247#comment-2858 [...] last summer I was offered to be the Evaluation Contest Chair, turned it down for reasons mentioned in a previous entry, plus still have no desire to get back to active service in D30.  Never thought about what might [...] [...] last summer I was offered to be the Evaluation Contest Chair, turned it down for reasons mentioned in a previous entry, plus still have no desire to get back to active service in D30.  Never thought about what might [...]

]]> By: Richard Garber http://www.willhsiung.com/tmblog/2009/05/10/do-i-really-want-to-get-back-to-the-abyss/comment-page-1/#comment-2402 Richard Garber Mon, 25 May 2009 14:30:01 +0000 http://www.willhsiung.com/tmblog/?p=247#comment-2402 Will: Last May for the District 15 Conference here in Boise we almost had a situation like what you described. For our Saturday night dinner and International Speech Contest we originally were going to be in a ballroom next to another one with a wedding reception. Our planners just were lucky because our ballroom was really much too large. The hotel staff also was concerned about the music from the wedding being too loud. They got our ballroom split in half by a movable wall so there was an empty space as a buffer between the two activities. That part of the planning worked well. Earlier in the day there also were multiple events going on in the hotel. I spoke in an afternoon educational session. Lunch was in the same ballroom as dinner. Three parallel education sessions were held in smaller meeting rooms that each held about 30 people. Those meeting rooms were just beyond the reception desk, at the opposite end from the ballrooms on the ground floor of the hotel. There was a little kiosk at each end of the hotel, with a 10-inch square map, but without a YOU ARE HERE arrow, and with room names in 8-point type. Many people had trouble finding their way from the ballroom to the meeting rooms. Richard Will:

Last May for the District 15 Conference here in Boise we almost had a situation like what you described. For our Saturday night dinner and International Speech Contest we originally were going to be in a ballroom next to another one with a wedding reception. Our planners just were lucky because our ballroom was really much too large. The hotel staff also was concerned about the music from the wedding being too loud. They got our ballroom split in half by a movable wall so there was an empty space as a buffer between the two activities. That part of the planning worked well.

Earlier in the day there also were multiple events going on in the hotel. I spoke in an afternoon educational session. Lunch was in the same ballroom as dinner. Three parallel education sessions were held in smaller meeting rooms that each held about 30 people. Those meeting rooms were just beyond the reception desk, at the opposite end from the ballrooms on the ground floor of the hotel. There was a little kiosk at each end of the hotel, with a 10-inch square map, but without a YOU ARE HERE arrow, and with room names in 8-point type. Many people had trouble finding their way from the ballroom to the meeting rooms.

Richard

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