This week, we peek into my office. I have always been an Elvis fan and I own several Elvis memorabilia items, drink out of an Elvis coffee mug and have a few pictures hanging around my office. In fact, I played the Elvis character a few years back at the NAESA International annual conference for a [...]
Monthly Archive for April, 2009
During the 2009 Asansor Istanbul exhibition in Turkey, the organizers, Istanbul Fair Organization (IFO), provided a special dinner cruise on the Bosporus Strait for the international press and special VIP industry guests. We would like to share with you some of the sites and scenery that we enjoyed and some industry faces that were aboard. Just click here to view the slideshow. Enjoy!
In this new blog series, we will post a snapshot of a unique or funny item found around the EW offices each Wednesday. This could be a funny picture on the wall, a crazy item on a staff member’s desk or simply something distinctive that has been around for decades. As I have mentioned before, ELEVATOR WORLD is a unique [...]
Rocky Mountain High
Posted in Travel on Apr 21st, 2009
On a blistery cold night deep in the mountains of Colorado, ELEVATOR WORLD Vice President T. Bruce Mackinnon and his wife Dana took a ride on a Doppelmayr gondola to the top of the mountain for a romantic dinner. Here’s their story:
All was fun and the dinner was perfect . However, as we attempted to head back down the mountain we found the crew of the gondola jamming out [...]
Incredible Istanbul
Posted in Travel on Apr 16th, 2009
Every two years, ELEVATOR WORLD participates in the elevator exhibition Asansör Istanbul, which takes place in Istanbul, Turkey. This was my second trip to this historic city, and it remains one of my favorite places to visit. However, the trip started terribly with several multi-hour delays, missed planes, extra connections and lost baggage. The day finally ended with the [...]
New Products On The Horizon
Posted in Education on Apr 15th, 2009
We have at least three new products due to come out this year and another three or four we are striving to publish in 2010. For this year look for “Traction” by George Gibson, a seminar on CD, to be available this summer. This hour-long lecture will come complete with questions that will make it [...]
Spreading Ourselves Thin
Posted in EW News on Apr 15th, 2009
ELEVATOR WORLD staffers travel the world to bring news to the magazine and to ELENET®. We have long had cooperative arrangements with other publishers in Germany, England, Italy, Spain, Japan, China and Turkey to share information between our magazines. However, last year we began publishing ELEVATOR WORLD India, extending our audience to more than 5,000 [...]
ELEVATOR WORLD recently attended the International Elevator & Escalator Expo Tech Forum in Chennai, India. While there, we had the opportunity to visit some sites around the city, including the nearby Johnson Lifts facilities (which will be featured in the next issue of EW India). Here are some photos from our trip.
TBruce MacKinnon
Preparing for the [...]
Beautiful Bermuda
Posted in Travel on Apr 7th, 2009
Anyone reading my recent blog about the NAEC Spring Educational Conference in Bermuda might get the impression that this island possession of the United Kingdom is not an ideal vacation destination. As along as you remember that Bermuda is not a tropical island, nothing could be further from the truth.
In my opinion, the best thing [...]
A Walk In The Park
Posted in General on Apr 2nd, 2009
Elevator World has always been community minded, but when a city park across the street from our office became a haven for drug activity and crime due to inactivity, we took action. The EW offices have been in its current location for more than 30 years, and this area has grown tremendously over this time, specifically with more families moving in. Public [...]