10 Event Trends for 2012: Free Webinar

10 Event Trends for 2012 is a presentation I published last week on this blog. I don’t believe any piece of content on event planning has ever had so much attention. The presentation was viewed over 40,000 times in a week. It was downloaded almost 300 times and favorited by dozens. Just… Read more

Make Your Conference Mobile in Seconds with EventBoard

EventBoard is a service that creates a multi-platform mobile conference program for the benefit of attendees and organizers I had a chat last week with Mike at EventBoard and he took me through what I think it’s a kick ass mobile conference programme maker. We talked in the past about what… Read more

The Impact of New Twitter on Events

Yesterday Twitter announced a major overhaul of their platform. Here is what you need to know and the impact of the new changes on events. I believe Twitter is event driven. I started saying this back in 2007, when not a lot of us event lovers were paying attention to this revolutionary social… Read more

Social Advertising: A Brief Overview

The blog has been quiet last week mainly due to me speaking in Dublin about Social Advertising. What you get out of it is my slides. If you are looking for the notes you can find them here. I've Engaged Now What – A Social Advertising Overview View more presentations from Julius… Read more

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

Event Fun #1: Bieber

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Here is a comics strip that will run monthly for the next 6 months on the blog, thanks to Chris Shipton of Livescribes, you can find him on Twitter… Read more

Social Media Strategy for Busy Event Planners in 6 Easy Steps

So much to do and so little time. This is the life of an event professional. We are busy trying to make everything work and things to do keep piling up. On the other hand social media are becoming an integral part of our marketing mix. This is also the case for customer service over social… Read more

10 Resources for Event Marketing Inspiration

It happened to all of us. All of a sudden, blank, no ideas for our event website, invites, concept, Twitter account, Facebook Page. Where should we look for event marketing ideas when we are desperate for inspiration? Let’s see… The Marketer’s Block It does exist. I am not the only one to… Read more

5 Ways to Sell Event Tickets at the Last Minute

This post answers the most pressing question all event professionals ask themselves: How can I sell more tickets? You got it planned, you spent months thinking about the smallest detail. You took care of everything. The problem is that you sold 30% of your tickets and the event is a month… Read more

Burberry Starts Event Online with Twitter

Burberry launches their next fashion show to selected users. Twitter users that is. We have covered in the past how events are increasingly starting online. While not all events can be originated from an online community, it is a good tactic to tap into an existing social network and make it… Read more