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Corporate Holiday Parties: Last Minute Tips to Ensure Success 2007-12-18 02:25:59 Robert Mackasek, CEO of Valera Global, a provider of executive transportation, offers last minute tips to ensure successful corporate holiday events. As 2007 draws to a close, corporate event planners across the nation are eagerly anticipating their holiday parties. The venues have been secured, invitations have been sent and food and entertainment are on the agenda. Corporate events, whether an intimate gathering or a massive company-wide celebration, offer guests an opportunity to unwind and celebrate. At the same time, corporations are hoping to make a lasting positive impression on employees, partners and customers.Valera Global offers some advice to ensure that the corporate celebrations are successful, entertaining and safe for all participants through professional executive transportation.
- How can organized transportation help a corporate event?
Robert Mackasek: Offering transportation to and from an event ensures that guests will arrive on time and avoid travel blunders that Read more:Holiday
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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 reduce your risk I suggest you use the following template. You can print it on a large paper and post it to your wall. It will help to scheme things out and sort them in packages of activities.
It is a Work Breakdown Structure. I invite you to read more on WBS so you could think of assigning tasks and give them a chronological value.
Enjoy it.
Download the wedding-work-breakdown
-structure.pdf
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Organize your (Christmas) Party with Google services 2007-12-14 10:36:42 Google offering is capturing most of my time online. I find myself using most of their services for all of my Internet needs.
Therefore I decided to put my passion for parties and the free flavor of the Google world together to help you manage your Christmas
party.
1. Set up a free Google account
If you don’t have one do not panic. Your time management is going to benefit from this. Go to the Google Account page, choose a username and password and enjoy it.
2. Start by using your Google Groups
Groups is going to be your basic platform to involve others. Create a group and share it with your friends by emailing them the link.
Edit your Google Group by:
Creating a page called “About this party” in which you will explain everything about the party. Theme, dress code, ticket price (should you have any),etc.
Creating a discussion post with a link to your map (see item 3)
Creating a discussion post called “Menu choice” in which you collect feedback on possibl Read more:Google
, Party
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 and philanthropic organizations - designing exceptional public spaces and staged events - environments that simply “wow” an audience.
A bit of Background
Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Carl George moved to New York City in 1980 where he soon became actively involved in the city’s art and nascent underground club scenes. During this time, Carl produced several experimental films that are exhibited internationally and are now part of the permanent collections at the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the New York Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
While still actively involved in the East Village avant-garde art scene, C Read more:interview
Open sourcing your event. A featured interview with Harrison Owen 2007-12-12 04:18:11 It is a great honor for this blog to host Harrison
Owen as a part of the featured interview
s section.
Harrison has worked on virtually every continent with organizations ranging from small villages to large corporations and NGOs. His major concern has been to assist organizations as they negotiate a transforming world. In some cases his role has been little more than holding the hands of the anxious. In other situations his function was more overt, assisting organizations in the sometimes painful process of self-understanding and renewal. In all situations the organizational mythology and culture was the focal point, and the power of self-organization the ultimate driver.
For what concerns event
s Harrison Owen is the voice of Open Space Technology which he has theorized and discussed in his masterpiece Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide which I invite you to read if you approaching the world of Barcamps, Unconferences or simply if you want to add a flare of Open Sourc
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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
Cup. It has to be said that the last edition of one of the most complicated and yet fascinating events of the globe has been a great success in terms of organization.
As from Wikipedia:
“Although Germany failed to win the Cup, the tournament was considered a great success for Germany in general. The stadia and transportation systems were state-of-the-art, and the German people were lauded for their hospitality and enthusiasm and gained new friends world-wide. One big innovation was the Fan Fests, where millions of people watched the World Cup
matches in public viewing areas. South Africa has already declared it will emulate this idea for the 2010 tournament. Germany also experienc Read more:interview
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My Event the complete, free and open event management software | Event Management Blog
WBS, Gannt and Budegt Template
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 has quickly become one of the most popular open-source applications.”
Now, you can believe me when I tell you I am a busy person and I got no time to waste. I can tell you this software is extremely easy to learn, even if you have no previous experience with project management software. It is a clone of Microsoft Project and it is very intuitive.
Hopefully I convinced you by now. So what you need to do is downloading your free copy of Openproj here. If you’re on Windows download the .zip file, for you Linux mates out there I don’t think you need explanations, just select your platform.
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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 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 2007-11-09 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 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 good dollars to get them.
Reality is that not all the event planners work in great companies with big monies. There are event planners like me that started their own business with limited resources. I have always stressed that a spreadsheet can help you in thousands of ways.
That doesn’t mean that I won’t be happy with a compr Read more:Source
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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 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’ll have a drink and a little chat.
Click on the contact me section on the sidebar or send me an email tojulius (at) gmail (dot) com.
I’ll keep you posted with initiatives and news.
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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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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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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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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 ...
The Club Factor 2008-03-11 05:12:02 A new club is out on Linkedin and if you are in events you can’t miss out.
For those of you who study or work in events you are probably aware of what Linkedin is.
I’ve been using Linkedin for 2 and a half years now and I must say it is a great service. It [...]
Why can’t we be friends? 2008-03-08 08:20:20 While my visit at Confex 2008 did not leave me with the best memory, I had an interesting meeting with my friend Rob. He participates a lot in Event-Management-Uk a great website and forum about events with an awful lot of information on events.
I could see his dedication and willingness to share information, define practices, [...]
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Why I won’t attend your conference 2008-02-29 04:46:12 Writer’s block is something that exists and that I sometime experience. That happened to me yesterday and it is funny to note how I was saved by an email.
The email I got yesterday was spam. The content of the spamming manager who sent the email was about registering for an event. He/she did not know [...] Read more:conference
Get a free copy of the Events Toolkit 2008-02-27 10:48:30 I recently compiled a toolkit from all the interventions on the blog. It can be used as a cheat sheet for events.
As I think that the best way to get EventManagerBlog content is via RSS feed, I decided to give away the pdf only to subscribers.
If you don’t know what RSS is visit this section.
There [...] Read more:Toolkit
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 [...] Read more:Fundraising
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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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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 [...]
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 [...] Read more:Title
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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 [...]
20+ resources for a smooth BarCamp 2008-01-31 06:33:59 I recently engaged seriously in running a BarCamp called ecoCamp (the page is in Italian but I’ll be more than happy to answer questions about it). In the process, I noted that there is no page where you can find most of the resources available on how to run a BarCamp. Therefore, I started to [...] Read more:smooth
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