Daniel Kalmar: RSH foreign legionnaire
Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Community, Hotel
My name is Daniel Kalmar, also known as DannyGoulash on Twitter, and I’m one of six foreign management trainees working at Roger Smith Hotel, currently within Social Media! Originally from Sweden, I’ve been around and experienced a lot in my days, but nothing has affected me quite as much as my current situation.
As things have progressed, I’ve made this exclusive interview together with Adam Wallace, blabbering about myself and also a narrated slideshow of my recent family visit, more specifically my brother and sister-in-law. In these videos, I was told to just let everything out, which I tried to do as quickly is possible not to make these videos too long 
So here’s a little peek into my world!
I am also the newest addition to the Roger Smith Social Media team, and I’m loving it! Great department to work in, great things to do, a constant flow of tasks and most importantly, an unorthodox way of marketing! Brian Simpson gave me the coolest nickname I’ve had for long time, he branded me the “Social Media Project Killer”. Doing my best to live up to that…Well, that’s all for now, see you around, folks!
Daniel Kalmar
Today’s #RogersRooms Giveaway by Matisyahu
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by AdamWallace in Hotel
For those who are just learning about #Rogersrooms, let me explain how the promotion works. We are giving away a room every night in January to be used before the end of the Month. Suite 1102 @RShotel is the Social Media Suite.
Thursday 1/21 competition: Send a message on Twitter to @Matisyahu and sign up to the mailing list for a chance to win #rogersrooms. Check out his new track One Day ft. Akon.
Matisyahu – “One Day feat. Akon” by matisyahu
One Day – Acoustic Version
Rogers Rooms Giveaway
Classical Guitarist Mattias Jacobsson, Sunday 1/10 at 4pm
Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by admin in Arts, Chamber Music Series
Mattias Jacobsson 4:00pm in the Solarium, 16th floor Roger Smith Hotel, 47th and Lexington, NYC Tickets $15 – Free wine and cheese Reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or call (212) 339-2092
As the chosen guitarist for Televisión Española’s centennial celebration of Francisco Tárrega,Mattias Jacobsson has emerged as one of the up-and-coming guitarists on the international stage today. The program “Es Música” will be broadcast bi-weekly throughout 2009.
Engagements include concerto appearances in The United States and Sweden, live performances at WQXR Radio and performances with guitarist Sharon Isbin at the Aspen Music Festival where they performed music by Howard Shore from Martin Scorsese’s movie The Departed, which was later broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today to an audience of 1.1 million. In June, 2008, Mr. Jacobsson was featured in the BBC documentary series “Imagine” about Oliver Sacks; in August, 2008, he replaced Angel Romero in both Concierto de Aranjuez andFantasia para un Gentilhombre by Rodrigo; and in March, 2009, he made his debut with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.
At the age of 17, Mr. Jacobsson made his recital debut at the Stockholm International Guitar Festival on very short notice, immediately followed by a tour of Estonia, along with his first recording album containing music by Bach, Poulenc, Mertz, Lauro, Albéniz, Sor and Tárrega. Since then, he has performed with principal members of Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and The Royal Danish Opera, and has been broadcast on BBC, TVE, WQXR, NPR and SRP2, the Swedish classical radio. He has also made recital and chamber music appearances in major Swedish venues as well as Alice Tully Hall, New York.
Born in Sweden in November, 1984, Mattias Jacobsson began studying the guitar with Erik Möllerström and Bo Hansson. He continued his studies at the Malmö Academy of Music with Göran Söllscher and Gunnar Spjuth and at The Juilliard School with Sharon Isbin.
Mr. Jacobsson plays exclusively on guitars by Thomas Fredholm.
Give us your most creative idea for a #RogersRooms Give-Away
Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by admin in Hotel
Our Friday, January 8th #RogersRooms giveaway contest is in your hands. We want you to submit a creative idea for the January 9th #RogersRooms give-away.
On Tuesday it was the best Haiku, yesterday was a card game and today we want your input. To enter write your idea for tomorrows contest in our comments section and at 4pm a celebrity guest will pick the entry they find most creative. Think fun, simple and engaging.
We look forward to your ideas and hope to see you here at The Roger Smith Hotel soon!
#Rogersrooms: Stay with us, on us, in January @RSHotel
Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by AdamWallace in Hotel
As an appreciation for all of the support we received in 2009, the Roger Smith Hotel will be giving away one room every day in the month of January to our online community.
We will be giving information regarding Roger Smith Room giveaways with the Twitter hashtag “#Rogersrooms” so that you will be able to track the promotion.
How does this work?
Roger Smith Rooms will be given away by members of your community. Every day at 11 am we will announce who will be giving the room away and how they plan to do it. At 4 pm, we will announce a winner and that person will be able to pick a date in the month of January to come and visit us. Based on the scheduled availability plan on staying in Suite 1102.
Participation is the name of the game.
Each day a room will be given away through an online interactive method. It could be trivia, a creative competition, or just a first initiated response. For more information regarding this promotion please engage with us on Twitter with #Rogersrooms and we will answer any questions you might have.
As an added bonus, even if you are not picked for a free night, we will Direct Message all participants an exclusive promo code (only offered here) for substantial savings when booking a room.
In 2010 we aim to engage you as a member of the Roger Smith Community. What better initiation than to have you stay with us for a night to experience the pride of Roger Smith, his Rooms.
We look forward to having you as our guest. See you soon.
Thanks for the support.
Roger Smith.
Dreams of Being a Butler: A Success Story of 2009, Yamiel Diaz
Posted on 30. Dec, 2009 by AdamWallace in Community, Lily's Restaurant
Yamiel Diaz, Floor Manager at Lily’s Restaurant at the Roger Smith Hotel tells a story about his year and the family of the Roger Smith. Yamiel has become a crucial player in the team here at the hotel and anyone who knows him knows that has energy and enthusiasm is relentless, inspiring and certainly contagious. He is probably the friendliest person you will ever meet and is eager to please whoever he is dealing with at all times. Yamiel has been a pleasure to have on the team and is certainly a success story of 2009. Looking forward to all that is to come in 2010!
Celebrate New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day at Lily’s
Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by AdamWallace in Lily's Restaurant
watch the ball drop at lily’s!
we are seeing in the new year with a
sparkling crowd, exciting drinks, bubbly
and party favors at midnight.
don’t end 2009 freezing in times square – bring in a warm 2010 in lily’s
lily’s new years eve hours
breakfast: 7-11am
lunch: noon-2.30pm
dinner: 5-10pm
Bar open ’till 1am
(small bites available)
new years day brunch special
celebrate the first day of the new year at lily´s
prix fixe $20.10
brunch + bloody mary or a bellini (fiesta!!) 11-4pm
dinner: 5-8pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
for more information visit lilysnyc.com
for reservations call 212 838 0844 or email lilys@rogersmith.com
Roger Smith Holiday Celebration
Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by AdamWallace in Community, Hotel
Happy Holiday’s to everyone from the Roger Smith Hotel! Recently the Roger Smith team celebrated the holiday season and all of the years successes with out annual party. It is always fantastic to celebrate with everyone you have works so hard with all year. This celebration always makes us realize what great people we have working for us and how lucky we are to have such a team.
Thank you to all of the Roger Smith employees and all of the Roger Smith community for an amazing year and all the best in 2010
Enjoy this series of photographs from our holiday party.
Kiki Valdes Debuts Pop Up Show in NYC
Posted on 22. Oct, 2009 by AdamWallace in Uncategorized
Oct 09 – New paintings from Miami artist Kiki Valdes appear for 5 days only at the Roger Smith Hotels new social media experiment, the Pop Up Shop. Reception will be on Thursday, Oct. 22nd 2009 with the artist creating a piece on sight. Time is between 7 – 9pm. It runs from Oct 20 – 25th. The mini show is curated by Melissa Gonzalez and produced by John Knowles & Panman Productions. Special thanks to everyone at the Hotel for making this possible.
Thursday, Oct 22nd 2009
47th Street and Lexington Avenue, Midtown NYC
6pm – 9:45pm
Kiki Valdes was born in Miami. FL at the same downtown hospital Bob Marley passed away just a month after in 1981. He attended the New World School of the Arts high school along with other ambitious classmates Jessica Sutta of Pussycat Dolls and paper artist Jen Stark. He later attended Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. During this time he published with his brother Humby a punk rock, culture and humor underground zine called OpenZine (which later became http://www.facebook.com/l/bc279;www.OpenZine.com, a site where anyone can publish web magazines) During the evenings Kiki would paint in his studio and later on pass out the newsprint publication at mostly punk venues such as CBGB’s in New York and Churchill’s in the inner city of Miami.
Roger Smith Hotel Social Media Re-mix
Posted on 14. Oct, 2009 by AdamWallace in Community, Hotel
In a coversation with John Knowles @RShotel, president of the organization James Knowles asks, “So how do we reach out?”. John: “You let other people do it for you.” James: “How does that work?”
The concept crowd sourcing content becomes a great way to allow for others to share your virtues. The idea of others taking your brand into their own hands might seem scary but when the public personalties embrace your identity the reach of your message spreads farther than you can anticipate.
The understanding and embracing of others to tell the story of your identity creates new levels of branding opportunity. The most important thing to understand is that our satisfaction is in you. The exciting moment of social media and the social internet is when an online engagement translates into a face to face interaction.
It is important to thank our friends both old and new for making the Roger Smith Hotel the place for everything Social Media. Thanks for being part of the Roger Smith Culture.
Follow us.
http://rogersmithlife.com/
http://twitter.com/RShotel
Please Share, Comment, Resopnd and Engage!
Thanks
John Knowles
