Should you Embed Technology in Your Event?

We are very pleased to launch the Event Manager Blog Channel. Thanks to BrightTalk, we’ll host up to three 30-minutes webinars a month. All the webinars are going to be free to join. How does it work? 1. Subscribe for free to the Event Manager Blog Channel (see also below). 2. You… Read more

How to Get Big Projects Done

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This is a guest post by Dan Baluta from GTDagenda.com a great tool to get things done. We had the chance to play around with it for a while and invite you to have a closer look. Successfully completing a large, complex project can bring you great personal, professional or financial rewards…. Read more

Free Webinar: Leverage The 2.0 World To Improve Your Events

Nielsen Business Media, Virtual Meetings, Successful Meeting and Meetings News asked me to present at the above seminar on the 29th of January 2009 at 2pm EST. You are more than welcome to join the crew and listen to a great panel of speakers: Here’s the link I will publish the… Read more

85+ tools to manage projects

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Events are indeed projects or at least they should be managed as such. Here is yet another free list that will help you to be more productive. Remember to save it in your del.icio.us for future reference and to let others know through StumbleUpon. Project Management Software -… Read more

Xing Event in London, good start!

Last week I had the chance to attend the first Xing event held in London. Definitely great fun and spot on. Xing has been advertising heavily in London lately. You could see the ad below pretty much everywhere on the tube. As an active networker, I checked it out and was… Read more

25 signs your event SUCKS!

Here is a checklist for your event. Print it and comply with it. It will help you in making sure you are not boring to death your attendees or throwing them violently in the 20th Century. Enjoy! You did not set up a twitter account for the event You haven’t added the event to Upcoming… Read more

Pixelated Conference Series – BarCamps

Pixe…what??? You may be asking. This is part of a project started by Mithc Joel called Pixelated Conference Series, based on an idea by Future Now. Chris Brogan also supported it and now it’s my turn. The project: A one day full online conference with videos from top speakers about a theme,… Read more

Get things done with Moreganize

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Moreganize allows you to share polls, surveys and to do’s so you can make everyone attending your meeting happy. We recently featured Gathergrid and pretty much loved the idea of being able to question your attendees to work out the best time to meet. Moreganize pushes the concept even… Read more

How to embed twitter in your event

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Photo by: luc legay The latest posts have talked extensively on how it is increasingly important to integrate twitter in events. This post answers the whys and hows. I was recently at ad:tech London and complained on how they did not integrate twitter during the event, although a lot of… Read more

MikonMixers… great idea

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Mark just got me in the world of Mikons, a great way to communicate, but most of all a tremendous networking ice-breaker. When you are networking reaching out to people at events it is always difficult to skim your targets. Most of us do that with appearances but possibly there is no worst… Read more