THE NEWS from EventWorks, Inc.

We were nominated for the first ever Best of 2009 Southern California Meetings + Events Magazine Award for Best Décor We are very happy and grateful to announce that we won! Janet, Katie, Melissa and Jennifer got into the festive mood by decorating themselves with cocktail attire in the offices before heading over to the Paramount Studios for the award show event on the 10th of September. Melissa" "The dress code was cocktail attire. Let me tell you, we had quite the fashion show going on and laughed a lot while getting ready." Katie: "The ceremony was much like the Academy Awards. They read the names of all the nominees in the category and then announced the winner. We were thrilled to hear EventWorks! The Award Certificate will go on our wall." Janet Elkins: "We very much thank all the readers who voted for us for this honor, but we feel the award really recognizes the amazing work of our design production manager Derek Zovak who could not attend." ...

It seems that everyone these days lives in Cyberspace. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter... the list goes on and on. Here at EventWorks we have had several meetings trying to figure out what to do and how to do it. Our friend and blog contributor Marion exercised her news media chops and went to interview the most renowned expert: Allen Weiss, Professor of Marketing, Department of Marketing, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Expert in online, relationship and business to business marketing. The resulting article is so interesting that Event Solutions got first rights. Here reprinted with permission from Event Solutions, www.event-solutions.com

Summer is almost over and we are back from breaks, family visits and vacations, full of new ideas and energy for fall events. EventWorks President Janet Elkins and husband Steve went to visit their son Brad in Germany. Brad got lucky and spent the summer in Berlin working as an intern. Steve reported back via email during the trip that Janet definitely went local in a big way! For those of you who know Janet personally, foot massages in Pasadena and meals of mineral water and salad -"hold the dressing, please" - come to mind. But yes, this lady on the bicycle in Berlin is Janet! Family Elkins explored the German capital on bikes just like the Germans who consider bikes the most practical mode of transportation in a city. It got even wilder in the restaurants! Here is visual proof of Janet eating SAUSAGES!!! washed down with a brewski from the tap, of course. When in Berlin....... One thing did not change and that is Janet's Type A personal...