Eventle: A Perfect Event Management Solution for BarCamps

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It is not a secret I am a fan of BarCamps. In fact I just attended #tweetcamp, an unconference for Twitter users in London, that amazed me to great extents. If you are not familiar with BarCamps, have a look at this. Despite lots of animated discussion with traditional event planners, I am… Read more

Tweetcamp ’09 and Unconferences

This video was shot during Tweetcamp ’09, an unconference style event held in London (UK) Tweetcamp 09 from Julius Solaris on Vimeo. You can check all the tweets from Tweetcamp here You can find the Flickr pics here Blog Posts: TweetCamp London 2009 Internal Communications at… Read more

The Difference Between Flavors and the Real Deal

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This post investigates the reasons why you should be careful in playing with event concepts. Photo by Funadium via Flickr Picture a cheap, insipid detergent brand. Imagine the marketing team struggling to find a new flavor for their boring product. Our studies say that Marseille Soap is… Read more

10 New Event Concepts That Will Throw You Out (or on Top) of the Market

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By now you should know we don’t like traditional form of events. By traditional we mean: High Control – High Environmental Impact – Low Technology – Low Innovation. News is we are not the only one in love with new, innovative concepts. We set the trend, now the market is loving whatever we have… Read more

Top five ways to keep your career going

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Photo by James Gordon If you are experiencing the negative impact of the economic crisis or you find very difficult to keep up with new technologies this post will help you in keeping up. I am not sure if you are aware but there is a community of event professionals which is facing new… Read more

How to avoid no shows at free events?

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Photo by: Jon Curnow The results of a discussion on how to ensure that people who RSVP’d yes at your free event do actually turn up. The intrinsic value of free events I love free events. What I love even more is free events with free drinks. It seems like I am not the only one. It is… Read more

The credit crunch of events

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Photo by: Kyle May The current crisis hitting the financial markets has impacted events. The trend of user generated events is going to shock our market even more. I already talked about making your event web 2.0 compliant. This is just a part of what needs to be done. There are… Read more

The quest for an open source, free, complete event management software

The quest for a complete, free, accessible and open source software for events continues. Recently at BarCampLondon 4 I had an interesting chat with fellow campers on how to proceed. You can have a look below. Julius Solaris – The Quest for a complete open source event management solution… Read more

About being disruptive

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Boring endless presentations. This is what modern conferences are all about. This trend needs to be stopped as soon as possible. As more people put their hands on Powerpoint/Keynote/Impress and so forth, more bullet pointLESS productions arise. If you attend regular conferences and maybe… Read more

Spam @ Barcamps

I am hearing things that should have not happened are indeed happening. I heard of people going to BarCamps and complaining about 15 minute spamming sessions. I’ve heard of unattentive organizers preferring the pitch of a product, a software or a blog over discussion and creation. This is… Read more