5 ways to promote events you don’t know

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Photo by luc legay Many people lately have been asking me to promote their events on social networks. My response to most of them is this post. Social Media and social networks now offer great potential to cut costs on event promotions. Social media and social networks are just buzzwords to… Read more

Virtual Trade Shows are Around the Corner

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Image courtesy of ON24 This is a guest post by Cece Salomon-Lee. She is the author of PR Meets Marketing blog and senior marketing communications manager with ON24. While her company recently launched a virtual show product, the thoughts expressed in this posting are not representative of… Read more

PerfectTablePlan for your weddings and special events

PerfectTablePlan helps you in making wise seating choices, which you obviously don’t want to get wrong. Andy sent me over a complimentary copy of PerfectTablePlan (now what a great way to be nice with me) for me to play and I loved it. You know I am a fan of free software and possibly… 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

Make sure everyone can make it with GatherGrid

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Setting the time for an event can be a bit of an hassle. Coordinating the needs of everyone involved is a tedious job and there are not many tools to help. Gathergrid helps in polling the best time in an elegant fashion. How does it work? Needless to say that once you have found… Read more

5 (more) free iphone applications for event planners

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Photo by: fr3d.org We really love the iphone and all the cool things we can do with it. As I said in this previous post, it helps me in being organized, do things online and keep track of my contacts in an very effective way. If you don’t have the device you may be missing out on few… Read more

How this blog changed my career

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Photo by: psd This blog started as a hobby in April 2007. At the time there were very few blogs about the subject. A year and a half later I find myself with a new job thanks to this blog and I am very happy to share that with you. Without the thousands of readers and the popularity of… Read more

Finally… Amiando!

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I talked in the past about trying to find an open source, free and complete alternative to expensive EM software.  Well Amiando it’s the closest solution to that. They have released a new version of the already great platform. I must admit it kicks asses, to use an allegoric phrase. Don’t… 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