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

twitter Enters Presentations

How to integrate twitter at presentations

Keynotetweet is a major step toward online/offline integration, with a touch of twitter coolness. Photo by smannium via Flickr The much discussed role of twitter during presentations, led us to believe that some piece of software was soon to be released. And there we go, keynotetweet… 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

Linked in London

Logo Designed by: Fabio Cannillo When I started to run my own events at the tender age of 16, I was victim of that passion that still drives me today. The characteristics that made me successful back then, are pretty much common to all those working with events: – a continuous hunger… Read more

MeetUp and event management careers

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This post is for all those who ask me how to get involved with events. MeetUp is the answer. If you have a passion for events and a passion for something else, whatever that is you might want to start a MeetUp. First of all, let me clarify that I am a fan of MeetUp. I’ve talked in the… 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

Do you feel like a CD?

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If you are a traditional event manager (or studying to become one) and think that recession is the major threat for your career, I think you are not on the right track. There are several trends in event management that are making the role as we know it obsolete. I am convinced that we are… 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

The best event you attended

This is a collective effort of the Linkedin community to figure out what makes an event outstanding. We have a 1000+ Event Planning & Management Group there which I invite you to join. If you’d like to answer to the next question and be featured on a post like this check out this… 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