EC PREMIER MAGAZINE & BLOGAZINES LAUNCH at CES

The Event City Network™ (ECN™) will reach the largest population of professionals who serve all aspects of the Events & Creative Industries™. ECN’s main focus is on distinct market segments which include the Special Events, Meeting Planning, Hospitality, Travel, Art, Entertainment & Music industries and all of their vertical markets. Additionally, Food & Beverage, Publishing & Printing, and Associations or Non-Profit Organizations affiliated with these market segments are included as important elements of membership.

The Event City™ online portal will offer a plethora of services, important industry-related concepts, critical information and support, valuable tools, and imperative business solutions for all aspects and market segments of these industries. It will benefit everyone from students straight out of college dreaming of playing a role in any of the disciplines to CEO’s planning to go public with their Venture Capital Firm.

NEW SF EVENTS VENUE OPENS & GOES GREEN

Nolan Apostle - Talent, Producer and Contributing Editor
Event City Live, Event City TV & Event City Creative

BENTLY RESERVE & CONFERENCE CENTER


Plans for a series of events are taking shape quite nicely at the new BENTLY RESERVE CONFERENCE & EVENTS CENTER in San Francisco. On April 9th and 10th, Christopher and Amber Marie Bently, owners of The Bently Reserve, are set to debut it’s new sustainable upgrades and the state-of-the-art Bently Conference Center with a series of events and festivities open to business associates, the media, event managers, meeting planners and the hospitality industry.

The crown jewel of the renovated building is the new Conference Center on the 2nd floor, boasting a variety of sustainable features and innovative technologies for meetings, parties, videoconferencing and corporate events. While it’s no mystery to San Franciscans who host lavish weddings and groundbreaking conferences there, The Bently Reserve is now more unique and appealing than ever thanks to an array of new eco-friendly features and innovative technologies.



Green, energy-efficient highlights include core upgrades like the new building control HVAC system, which was completely upgraded with a digital control, offering centralized on-site and remote temperature control, allowing off-site control for evening and weekend events.

The upgraded lighting controller – the Lutron Lighting EcoSystem™ – (which happens to be one of this writer's favorite) networks all lighting systems together and allows exact monitoring of kilowatts to accurately measure energy consumption. Advanced lighting sensors automatically detect outside light and adjust the interior lights to maximize energy savings. There are only three other commercial facilities on Earth with the same system installed on this scale.

In addition, the old CFC-based air conditioning chiller units were removed and replaced with a new, modern non-CFC based refrigerant system. This is a huge plus for event planners, especially when you get a crowed room of party-goers, all that body heat can really blast up the temperature in any room; this new air conditioning system will keep everyone nice and cool.

The latest digital technology was integrated into the new Conference Center, making it one of the most appealing destinations in San Francisco for conferences and business meetings. Teleconferencing equipment from Polycom offers high-definition quality and “Continuous Presence”, which allows conference attendees in multiple physical locations to see and hear each other in real-time digital squares on a monitor or screen. A highly-secure network using the latest Cisco Systems firewall and switch equipment creates peace of mind and a network that is secure enough to support government agencies. There is wireless internet available via completely segregated network access throughout the facility. With this system, individuals can connect to the network via their laptops throughout the Conference Center. In addition, there is also a business area with available computer rentals, fax machines, copiers, and scanners. Companies can also select from a variety of comprehensive audio/visual and telecommunications packages to suit their needs.

As you can see from the pictures, this is a beautiful venue, but its beauty is not truly appreciated until you had the opportunity to visit this incredible venue. If you are an Event or Meeting industry Professional, Corporate Planners, anyone involved in the Hospitality or Entertainment industries please send us an email and we will send you a complete detailed email of event schedules and the Venue's manager contact information.

We look forward to seeing you at the New Bently Reserve Sneak Peak Events on April 9th and 10th in San Francisco.

Launch of Event City Creative Blog and Zine

Good morning East Coast, happy dreaming West Coast! I welcome you to the Event City Network's™ magazine blog. The first of it's kind to be presented within the United States and as far as we know, within the entire Global Internet!

I present to you on this First day of June 2007, our first Blog of hopefully many more to come, for the Event City Network's™ online publication, EVENT CITY CREATIVE™. What is the Event City Creative™ and what type of publication will it be? It is an online "Mag and Zine" for the Events & Creative Industries™ soon to be in Beta Test. The Event City Network™ is the new Online Service Portal for these industries and all their vertical markets.

It is our goal to create a magazine as YOU our readers would create it. Share with us your thoughts and ideas of what you would like to see in our Zine and we will do our best to include as much of it as possible. Let us know your trials and tribulations and we will help you find solutions. If you're searching for new technologies or innovations to help your business grow, tell us about them - our researchers will help burrow through the plethora of technology products flourishing literally on a daily basis to help find these resources!

When Event City Creative™ launches we want you to be an integral part of this project. By helping us develop some of our content ideas, in essence, you will play a role in the development of the tools we create to help your business and professional career and those of your colleagues to be successful within these industries and all their vertical markets! We can only do this with YOUR FEEDBACK! This is the place to tell us what you want! A Blog-a-Zine™ for anyone to post their comments, ideas, helpful information to share with their associates and peers within the Events and Creative industries.

Ok, so you keep hearing about these Events & Creative Industries; what do we define as the industries? Here they are as defined by Event City™:

1. Hospitality
2. Special Events
3. Meeting Planning
4. Travel
5. Art
6. Entertainment & Music
   
7. Food & Beverage
8. Publishing & Printing
   

Our objective is to create an online publication that will provide valuable information and an array of content that would be valuable for all working individuals involved in any of the above industries. Students to CEO's, our valuable information will be dedicated to these industries as a whole. All of these industries have historically come together for the success of many different types of projects - Small private parties to major Corporate events; grand-openings to launch parties; night-club and bar shows to major Rock'n'Roll tours; conferences & meetings to major film productions and so much more. All of the Event City industries play a role in the success of any of those events at any given time!

A Blog-a-Zine™ for the student just coming out of college and wanting to start their own Event Planning company or a major Hotel manager who wants to change careers - post your comments, share with all of us your ideas, give all readers an opportunity to help provide valuable information to share with you and all of our associates and peers within the Events and Creative industries. Take advantage of the crossover these industries represent to help your business grow!

I cannot overemphasize - This "Blog is for YOU", to share your ideas and to tell us what you would like to see presented within our online Mag and Zine! Become a Beta Tester and you will receive many Benefits and Freebies as well as a Featured Founding Member status of the Event City Network™. If you would like to participate do not hesitate to contact us for participation details at any level.

This project has been a very long road for us. As we begin our process to launch the entire 'network', we look forward to hearing from you. We want to learn what type of content and material you would like to see appear not only in our magazine, but anywhere within our Portal site, the Event City Network™.

I look forward to meeting all of you if not in person, at the very least Virtually somewhere in the world of Event City!

Cheers,
Nolan Apostle
Founder & CEO
Associate Publisher
Event City Network™
Event City Creative™
eventcity@eventcity.net