Top 5 qualities of the successful event manager

kevin

This post is a collective effort of the Linkedin event community trying to identify the attributes that make an event professional stand out. A few comments. Read all the answers as you may be inspired by the very latest and I can tell by the quality that every single participant made an effort… Read more

ecoCamp: a case study

Most of my afficionados know that I’ve worked in the past two months at ecoCamp, a BarCamp about the environment, ecology, sustainability and energy. The event took place yesterday 29th of March 2008 in Conversano – Italy. This post sums up what happened before, during and after the event, from… Read more

What the Cluetrain Manifesto taught me about events

The Cluetrain Manifesto is almost ten years old. I was actually surprised to see it was written in 1999 for two reasons: – It is amazing to see how it is still relevant to both Internet and businesses. The words of the manifesto sound like a Web 3.0 startup’s mission. They got it right. The… Read more

The trade show unfortunate misunderstanding

confex

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… Read more

linux.conf.au@eventmanagerblog.com

linux day

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”… Read more

20+ resources for a smooth BarCamp

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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

Why my blog is useless…or is it?

yes community

When I started this blog I had clear goals in mind. I wanted to share whatever I learned when organizing events. I thought that it could have been a great resources blog for those seeking for tips, tools, templates and solutions.I had to surrender to communities. While I dove into the blogosphere I… Read more

These feet were made for walking

Walk it on

Picture this. An important conference/meeting. An endless bullet point presentation of obvious things you already know. Boring minutes waisted, but you have to stay there. Maybe your boss forced you to, or maybe you’re there because you are waiting for the big name, which has been wisely… Read more

An industry conference in my living room? Managing a Digital Conference

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I was reading my feeds when I bumped into BlogOnExpo. Since I am more and more convinced that regular event planning is quickly becoming a thing of the past, I thought I should get more information about how to run a digital conference. Who knows maybe my future client will ask e to run one at some… Read more

Team building and unconferences. A featured interview with Paul Hebert

incentive

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… Read more