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3 Ways To Turn Around An Event Headed For Disaster

This is a guest post by David Thomas. He has been wowing audiences worldwide as a leading corporate magician. The most popular of these variety show packages are now available as Shows In a Box Corporate Entertainment, pre-produced spectacular productions for the special event markets. As an… Read more

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Why It’s a Must We Top Last Year’s Event. But How?

This is a guest post by Michelle Bergstein. Also known as the Event Marketing Maven, Michelle lives, eats and breathes marketing for the hospitality, event and meeting industries. You can find her on Twitter or online at BeatCreative Ok, please share! We hear it from corporate planners looking… Read more

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3 Free eBooks for Event Professionals

This is a sponsored post written by Eric Eden, Vice President of Marketing for Cvent. For more information about sponsored posts click here. These days, no event can reach its potential without tapping into social media and mobile apps. The days of calling social media a fad are long gone, more… Read more

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Landing the Million Dollar Event

The following is a guest post by Howard Givner, Founder & Executive Director of the Event Leadership Institute, which provides training and education for event professionals through on-demand video classes, white papers, webinars, live events, and interviews with industry… Read more

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You Know You Are an Event Planner When… [Infographic]

This is the title of the most popular discussion in our LinkedIn Group. It received 1,425 comments. To celebrate the Group’s 4th birthday and 60,000 Members mark, I’ve asked our dear friend Chris Shipton to produce an Infographic out of the best answers. Chris makes cartoons live at events… Read more

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20 Facts to Make You Look at Events Differently

Inspiration, what a tough topic. Writing inspiring stuff is the most difficult task for a blogger. It requires research, know-how and lateral thinking. But that’s why you read this blog, right? I’ve thrown together some cool, inspiring, thought-provoking and quirky facts that will… Read more

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The Best Posts in 2011

2011 has been an incredible year for Event Manager Blog. We had a redesign, a new Google+ page, a Job Board and Twitter account. We also welcomed a number of great sponsors who helped us to produce even better content. If you haven’t been in touch in a while here is what you missed last… Read more

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10 Event Trends for 2012

Hello dear readers. Here is my small present for the holidays. I published a similar presentation last year that was well received on Slideshare, with several thousands interactions. This year I was a bit skeptical before publishing it, due to the dozens of imitation attempts and to the… Read more

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Share Post Event Materials Like a Pro

It looks like time’s up for conference proceedings. This post will help you to leverage social media to send post event materials like a true social media ninja. I was reading through our amazing Event Planning and Management LinkedIn Group, when I stumbled upon this interesting… Read more

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Innovating Conferences

Last week I had the chance to meet with fellow event blogger Gianfranco Chicco from Conference Basics, one of the best blogs about events out there. We’ve been postponing a double feature for a while now, but finally we managed to shoot an interview. Who is Gianfranco? Gianfranco is… Read more

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