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Love That Dirty Water…NYC -> Boston

BrianSimpson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:42:53 +0000

On Thursday, January 14th, Adam and I (Brian) will be at N.E.R.D. in Boston to speak on behalf of midtown Manhattans Roger Smith Hotel at Jeff Pulver’s #140 Meet-Up. This is a special event for us because although we live in NYC we are both New Englanders, Adam is from from Antrim, NH and I am from Kennebunkport, ME. We will be arriving in Boston Thursday afternoon and heading to The Elliot Hotel in The Back Bay. After checking in we are hoping to meet some of our loyal supporters from Boston – In Real Life!

If you are unable to attend the event and would like to meet up please contact us via twitter @RSHotel @AdWal or @Bsimi and let us know when and where, we will try to accommodate. Looking forward to many familiar faces and hopefully a lot of new ones.

See you Thursday Boston!

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My Favorite Story Of 2009 Is:

BrianSimpson — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:33:11 +0000

Adam J. Wallace, a.k.a. @AdWal, a.k.a. great co-worker & friend. I am even writing this post from his account because he would never give himself credit so I will. It was just over one year ago that I was introduced to The Roger Smith Hotel and its cast of characters. Adam, a fellow New England’r, was running Lilys at the time and transitioning into managing all of the online strategies. Together we started a twitter account and launched a new blog called rogersmithlife.com. ( Roger Smith had a current blog rogersmithnews.com which was managed by Adam and John Knowles of Pancity). The year has been filled with baby steps, by baby steps I do not mean slow wobbly and cautious. I mean the stage of walking where the baby whacks its head on things and teeters dangerously close to the top edge of the stairs. Although we had the support of ownership we still had to prove that this ‘social media’ thing was worth while and convince the rest of the hotel we were not just ‘playing’ on Facebook.
I could not have picked a better person to work with. Adam’s belief in his work, people and the culture of Roger Smith Hotel is unrivaled. In the past year we have made so many new friends together, played some great rounds of golf

Bethpage - The Blue Course

traveled and presented at conferences, disagreed about plenty, agreed about more and are now starting to write a book together… brilliant.
I wanted to use this platform to thank Adam and to give him credit for a year well done! All the hours, the time away from his lovely GF ( thank you C.) and tireless amounts of time working with me (not that easy) have all paid off.
Thank you Adam !

Happy Holidays to you all and a HUGE THANK YOU for a year of amazing support !

Cheers,
Bsimi

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Connecting two digital hubs, why I came to London

AdamWallace — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:11:37 +0000

Hi Everyone, Adam Wallace (@adwal) here from London. I came here on a very last minute trip, not a lot of people knew I was going and I wanted to just take a second to explore with you why I came to London and why the Roger Smith Hotel is interested in connecting with London. It short, I saw that London has become a hub for the digital scene in Europe and the Roger Smith Hotel has become a hub for the digital scene in New York, so there seemed to be a clear opportunity to connect.

From New York over the past three months I have been able to see that there is a vibrant digital scene in the UK that is centered in London. The series of events that led me to a focus on the UK was when eConsultancy, a UK based Blog and community of digital marketers, wrote a profile piece on us at the Roger Smith Hotel. It was not the piece that they wrote, but the buzz that came after it. I realized how much credibility and influence they had and turned my attention to the UK. From there I modorated a great round table event that they put on in NYC and then started seeing other great things that were coming out of UK.

We became connected with Sarah Prevette who is the founder of Sprouter, a global online community of entrepreneurs. She hosted a few events with us where many of the people she brought in had ties to the UK. From her we met David Blumenstien, who led us to more ties in the UK digital scene. From David we got introduced to Chinwag, which is an organization which connects the UK digital scene. If you want to see just how vibrant the UK scen is, just take a look at their website’s list of events just for this week. The Roger Smith then hosted two events with Chinwag’s Digital Mission to NYC put on by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

Well, you get the idea, all signs have been pointing to UK as being the hub. So when Sarah Prevette invited the Roger Smith to be a part of a series of event here, it was clear that this is the place to be. In addition to furthering connections between NYC and London with these organizations, tonight there is a Microsoft BizSpark hoilday party and tomorrow I’m very excited to be a part of SproutUp London which is the book launch party for Gary Vaynerchuk‘s Crush It. It is going to be a very exciting few days and I am happy for the Roger Smith Hotel to be representing in London!

Following London I will be in Paris for Le Web (more to come on that soon!).

Why the Roger Smith is in London

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