Is Multitasking good for you?

Lately I have been having a great conversation with few of you on what were the top 5 qualities of the successful event manager. Although not in the Top 5, a lot of you named multitasking.
I agree. Even if you are involved with planning a dinner with friends, tasks will include collecting RSVPs, arranging food [...]

Jack Mardack and Eventbrite

Eventbrite is an online ticketing and registration platform for events.
It is one of the most adopted and therefore definitely worth a review and interview with its Director of Marketing, Jack Mardack.
How does it work?

Few things that I love about the service:
- There is no standard price. They earn a percentage based on your ticket [...]

Wedding work breakdown structure

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 [...]

Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt and Budget Template

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 [...]

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 to create one in the easy to use Excel (pretty similar for those using Calc):

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If [...]