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| Fundraising for success. Interview with Sandra Sims |
| 2008-02-24 04:53:17 |
I am aware that a lot of you reading out there are involved with no-profit and fundraising. I am amazed by the dynamics of such events and I am even more amazed when I see huge participation and donations. I have found myself involved with managing volunteers and that is a big chunk of running [...]...
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| The trade show unfortunate misunderstanding |
| 2008-02-20 11:13:36 |
Last week the blog was fairly inactive as I went to London to attend the 2008 International Confex.
For those out there who don’t know what I am talking about, Confex is one of the biggest trade shows for event planners, mangers and everyone involved into the industry.
This is the trade show of the trade shows. [...]...
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| Links for 2008-02-13 [del.icio.us] |
| 2008-02-14 00:00:00 |
17 Unbeatable Ways to Create a Peaceful, Relaxed Workday
The Fine Art of ‘Reverse Budgeting’
Chitika Introduce Viral Branding Units
AskMen.com - Constructive criticism
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| linux.conf.au@eventmanagerblog.com |
| 2008-02-09 05:29:10 |
Few days ago Melbourne hosted the biggest Linux conference of Australia. This event has completely captured for a number of reasons.
- I am a member of the Italian Linux Society
- I’ve erased from my PC every form of proprietary software, choosing Kubuntu
- I’ve participated to a “Linux Day” in Italy and I think they are [...]...
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| Job Title: Webcasting Event Manager |
| 2008-02-05 11:05:38 |
Few weeks ago, someone at the Social Media Club, of which I am a proud member, informed me that one of my favorites, Seth Godin, would have participated to a webcast the following week. I checked out the website and I was impressed.
I noticed that this was some form of digital conference, delivered via Real [...]...
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| Links for 2008-02-03 [del.icio.us] |
| 2008-02-04 00:00:00 |
Permission Marketing
Three Digital Business Models That Could Rock Your World
Persuasion Tactics: Two Ways to Improve Visitor Response for Your Website
Building the Social Media Starfish
Digg - Social media to rock the web in 2008
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| My local bakery rocks |
| 2008-02-01 19:09:20 |
Few months ago I remembered reading astonishing news while I studied for my MBA in Australia. A McDonald’s shop was closed after few months of fierce competition from the local bakery. It all happened in Italy and few miles away from where I live. The story got so popular that even the NY Times wrote [...]...
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| Men are not monkeys |
| 2008-01-11 07:46:42 |
I love monkeys they’re great animals.
Nonetheless they’re pretty different from men. Individuals are intelligent.
They can create things, they have emotions and few other things I am quite sure you are aware of.
There are few mistakes you can do when you are hosting an event, that this post should help you to avoid.
If you’re hosting a [...]...
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| Team building and unconferences. A featured interview with Paul Hebert |
| 2008-01-04 10:06:44 |
Paul Hebert currently heads up the business development group at Excellence In Motivation, a $100+ million marketing services agency that focuses on influencing the behavior of a company’s employees, channel partners, vendors and customers. Paul has held a variety of positions with incentive companies from marketing to sales, sales positions within a brand identity [...]...
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| How to run a Meetup event. Lisa and the New York Italian language Meetup |
| 2008-01-04 08:54:02 |
Meetup is quickly changing the panorama of events and the way people get together to share their common enthusiasm. I am a fan of Meetups in general and I have subscribed and attended several. I love the formula because it gives back to participants the event management and it is, although run by an organizer, [...]...
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| Plan the perfect wedding. A featured interview with Sarah Haywood |
| 2007-12-20 06:39:06 |
Wedding planner Sarah Haywood is author of the UK’s top-selling bridal book the Wedding Bible, and the recently published (Feb 2007) Wedding Bible Planner. She has recently been named one of the ten most influential people in the UK wedding industry and is founder and managing director of the inspirational Wedding Bible Company, one of [...]...
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| Organize your (Christmas) Party with Facebook Apps |
| 2007-12-19 09:16:08 |
Following the success of “Organize your (Christmas) party with Google services” and the direct suggestion of our readers, here’s how you can throw your next (Xmas) party with Facebook.
1. Get a Facebook account here
2. Invite your friends to join
It is likely that they (and you) already have an account but just in case let them [...]...
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| Wedding work breakdown structure |
| 2007-12-14 13:39:08 |
Wedding day is indeed the most important day of your life.
It is crucial that everything is at the right place and everyone knows what to do.
The self made bride who does not want to use any wedding planning service should know that planning well is 90% of the job. The rest is luck.
In order to [...]...
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| Running a fashion show. A featured interview with Carl George |
| 2007-12-13 02:32:15 |
Running a fashion show is definitely the aspiration of a multitude of soon-to-be planners out there. We decided to ask Carl George to share few tips with us to inspire our readers that want to get involved in the business.Carl George is an event producer, designer and consultant to retailers, museums, Fortune 500 corporations, restaurateurs [...]...
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| Managing the World Cup, a featured interview with Jürgen Rollman |
| 2007-12-09 12:32:23 |
This new section of the blog asks questions to those who know the game very well and could be of inspiration to many of us out there struggling to get to the top.
We decided to start in great style. We asked few questions to Jürgen Rollmann the Federal Government Co-ordinator for the 2006 Germany World [...]...
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| Links for 2007-12-04 [del.icio.us] |
| 2007-12-05 00:00:00 |
My Event the complete, free and open event management software | Event Management Blog
WBS, Gannt and Budegt Template
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| Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt and Budget Template |
| 2007-12-04 09:42:01 |
While the quest for My Event continues I thought I’d share with you a super useful template for managing events.The template is based on Openproj
What is Openproj?
As for its website
“OpenProj is a free, open-source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. OpenProj has been downloaded over 150,000 times in the first weeks since it was released and [...]...
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| This site has moved |
| 2007-12-04 01:49:35 |
Hi there you'll find new tips tools and conversations about event management onwww.eventmanagerblog.comThis site will be kept online for a while.The new platform will enhance your reading experience and deliver our content in the best way!Thanks...
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| Important for RSS readers |
| 2007-12-04 01:46:30 |
Hi there for those of you reading thisblog via RSS we aremoving platform.The new RSS address is now active. Subscribe belowAlthough eventmanagement.blogspot.com will be available online for a while I'll be posting new content on www.eventmanagerblog.comwhere you'll find older posts as well!Cheers...
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| My Event the complete, free and open event management software |
| 2007-11-12 06:39:46 |
Sounds good right? Well we are working to make it happen.Sourceforge has approved the project and we know have a space, a forum and several other tools to start working.I invite you to have your say at the official My Event pageI already got positive feedback and I feel very motivated to work on the project.I also invite you to express your opinion on what features you think the software should have. What platform would you prefer? And everything you feel might help in your event planning business.You could either reply to this post, register on sourceforge, write me an email or whatever is more convenient.I feel that we need your help in this to give it a go so we can enjoy the results ASAP!...
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| The need for an Open Source Event Management software |
| 2007-11-12 06:35:00 |
I get tons of email asking me for a suggestion for a complete event management Source">open source software.I must say I am a bit embarrassed with the subject because there is no complete solution for planning. There are a lot of good project management, paper submission, accounting, CRM, office suites softwares.But not event management.Event planning is a little of all the above. Therefore I am convinced that the discipline we love deserves a damn well software, comprehensive and free!It is a paradox to me that the field where humans get pretty close to computers has no software to help.Oh wait there are several softwares out there but you have to pay ...
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| My Event the complete, free and open event management software |
| 2007-11-12 06:25:00 |
Sounds good right? Well we are working to make it happen.
Sourceforge has approved the project and we know have a space, a forum and several other tools to start working.
I invite you to have your say at the official My Event page
I already got positive feedback and I feel very motivated to [...]...
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| The 2008 International Confex |
| 2007-11-09 13:01:08 |
Remember when I told you about my intention to start my own event management company, well I made it.I must say it is in its alpha stage and that a lot of work still needs to be done.Nonetheless I decided to allow me a cool start and invested in participating at the 2008 International Confex.Events in Apulia will be at the tiny stand Y855 and we'll greet you with superb wine and taralli form the beautiful land of Apulia.I am committed to generate buzz, therefore I want you to come and visit me from the 12th to the 14th of Feb 2008 at Earls Court in London.We are also thinking about presenting on Green Meetings with contents from the Event Management Blog.If you contact me with your details I'll be happy to send you free tickets to be my guest and we...
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| The need for an Open Source Event Management software |
| 2007-11-09 12:10:00 |
I get tons of email asking me for a suggestion for a complete event management open-source software.
I must say I am a bit embarrassed with the subject because there is no complete solution for planning. There are a lot of good project management, paper submission, accounting, CRM, office suites softwares.
But not event management.
Event planning is [...]...
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| The 2008 International Confex |
| 2007-11-08 11:43:00 |
Remember when I told you about my intention to start my own event management company, well I made it.
I must say it is in its alpha stage and that a lot of work still needs to be done.
Nonetheless I decided to allow me a cool start and invested in participating at the 2008 International Confex.
Events [...]...
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| The registration process |
| 2007-11-08 11:00:22 |
This post applies to all those events which involve a registration process. By that I mean also those events with tickets as that could be conceived as registration. First of all registration is crucial. It helps in several aspects: it gives you an idea on how much people will participate to your event it gives you a clear picture of the profile of your participant it shows you likes and dislikes of the participant it could help you with dietary requirements thus avoiding last minute buffet changes if automated it could help the participants to start interacting before the event Anticipation In order to achieve all these beautiful things I usually apply my rule of registration. It has to be anticipated as much as possible. All the data that comes with registration are of utmost...
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| The registration process |
| 2007-11-08 10:57:00 |
This post applies to all those events which involve a registration process. By that I mean also those events with tickets as that could be conceived as registration.
First of all registration is crucial. It helps in several aspects:
it gives you an idea on how much people will participate to your event
it gives you a [...]...
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| 2007-10-02 00:00:00 |
How to be a succesful event manager
To some of my regulars, this post should have appeared long before. In fact I have been thinking about it for a while.The thing about events is that it may appear that everyone is capable of planning ...
L'organizzatore di eventi di sucesso
A molti può sembrare che organizzare ed eseguire eventi sia una passeggiata di salute. Che in somma non servano grandi competenze o caratteristiche per potersi avvicinare al business. In effetti è cos...
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| How to be a succesful event manager |
| 2007-10-01 08:41:12 |
To some of my regulars, this post should have appeared long before. In fact I have been thinking about it for a while.The thing about events is that it may appear that everyone is capable of planning and executing an event. To a certain extent that is the truth. You may in fact notice that several tools of this blog are very easy to use, do not require any particular knowledge or skills.I have stressed in the past the argument that the events industry is not inaccessible, on the other hand it is quite easy to get in and to quickly obtain responsibility.Nonetheless, I am convinced that there is a marked line that divides those working in events randomly or amateurs from successful event managers or planners.I am not talking about motivation and drive, whi...
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| Links for 2007-09-26 [del.icio.us] |
| 2007-09-27 00:00:00 |
10 errori comuni del'organizzatore di eventi
10. Scarsa capacità di gestire il tempo. Non so se metterla al numero uno o lasciarla qui perché è comunque la prima che leggerete. Già di per sé organizzare eventi significa non solo saper gestire il...
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| 2007-09-19 00:00:00 |
Gantt chart video tutorial
I realize coming up with a Gantt chart could be a bit of an hassle if you are starting from zero.I previously posted on how to make a Gantt chart, nonetheless I found also few videos on Youtube on how...
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| Gantt chart video tutorial |
| 2007-09-18 11:08:34 |
I realize coming up with a Gantt chart could be a bit of an hassle if you are starting from zero.I previously posted on how to make a Gantt chart, nonetheless I found also few videos on Youtube on how to create one in the easy to use Excel (pretty similar for those using Calc):If you use the Gantt chart macro of Excel you should take a look at this:If you are using Excel 2007 this is for you:I also bumped into a couple of tutorials for dotProject which I think is a great, easy to use open source software and most of all is free:#1#2I must say there isn't much out there in terms of video tutorials. Should you guys find anything worth publishing, please comment on this post....
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| 2007-09-18 00:00:00 |
BollentiSpiritiCreativeCamp la Non Conferenza in pratica
A seguito del mio precedente post, vi invito se siete di passaggio da Bari a dare un'occhiata ad un esempio di Non Conferenza che si terrà il 28/09/2007 organizzata da Bollenti Spiriti e, ovviamente, ...
The death of the conference oligarchy
Following the recent post on how conferences and events should be more unconferences and unevents, I realize few parts of the above need more information.So here are the links that Wikipedia makes on ...
I principi della Non conferenza e dell'Open Space
I principi della Non Conferenza e dell'Open Space danno uno schiaffo serio ai principi dell'Organizzazione Eventi.I Principi:- Chiunque partecipi, erano le persone giuste- Qualunque cosa succeda, era ...
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