{"id":290,"date":"2012-11-07T10:12:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/expogroup\/2012\/11\/07\/smoty-winners-honored-as-difference-makers\/"},"modified":"2018-12-09T23:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:52:40","slug":"smoty-winners-honored-as-difference-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/smoty-winners-honored-as-difference-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"SMOTY Winners Honored as Difference-Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a TSNN&nbsp; T-Awards Celebrate Success weekend, The Expo Group Show Manager of the Year Awards were presented to five executives making a difference in their show and all those involved in it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We all know there is that one person who really makes a difference,&rdquo; said President and CEO Ray Pekowski during the awards ceremony. &ldquo;That is why we started these awards, to honor these people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This 11th iteration of the SMOTY Awards kicked off the awards gala in the&nbsp;Louisville Marriott Ballroom in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. &nbsp;The winners were presented&nbsp;the iconic SMOTY crystal obelisk trophy and were honored with a donation to their favorite charity. Over the years, The Expo Group awards program has resulted in more than $70,000 being contributed to worthy causes.<\/p>\n<p>The Expo Group Show Manager of the Year awards are judged be an independent panel. <a href=\"http:\/\/theexposure.theexpogroup.com\/awards\/smoty-nomination-form\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SMOTY Nomination&nbsp;Form\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">More information can be found here<\/font><\/a> including nomination information for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a TSNN&nbsp; T-Awards Celebrate Success weekend, The Expo Group Show Manager of the Year Awards were presented to five executives making a difference in their show and[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,40,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}