What the Cluetrain Manifesto taught me about events
4 comments so farThe 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 people [...]
Corporate Holiday Parties: Last Minute Tips to Ensure Success
No commentsRobert Mackasek, CEO of Valera Global, a provider of executive transportation, offers last minute tips to ensure successful corporate holiday events. As 2007 draws to a close, corporate event planners across the nation are eagerly anticipating their holiday parties. The venues have been secured, invitations have been sent and food and entertainment are on the [...]
Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt and Budget Template
2 comments so farWhile 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 [...]
The registration process
No commentsThis post applies to all those events which involve a registration process. By that I mean also those events with tickets as that could be conceived as registration.
First of all registration is crucial. It helps in several aspects:
it gives you an idea on how much people will participate to your event
it gives you a [...]
How to be a succesful event manager
3 comments so farTo some of my regulars, this post should have appeared long before. In fact I have been thinking about it for a while.
The thing about events is that it may appear that everyone is capable of planning and executing an event. To a certain extent that is the truth. You may in fact notice that [...]
