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Last week we looked at iphone applications for event planners… and today it’s our turn to see what there is for an Android operating system. The beautiful thing with using an Android OS, is the community of open source programmes that surround it. We found a huge number of Apps for event planners, but there are vast differences in quality between applications. For a comprehensive list of the many event planner apps you can try, check-out Androidzoom’s list here.
Some our favourites include: Continue Reading →
Event Managers are great at harnessing the power of technology to get the most out of their time and help manage the complex job of project management. The nature of the work also means that the event professionals find themselves away from the office from time to time, making phones and mobile devices well used.
Here are six of our favourite iphone apps (android will be discussed on our next post) that event planners use while on the run. What are your favourites? Continue Reading →
After having a riveting encounter at a recent event you search for your new business contact, David Murphy of Shoppers ‘R Us online, only to find… absolutely nothing. It is at this point most of us start questioning the legitimacy, or even the correct spelling, of the person we were attempting to discover more about. My colleagues were even close to withdrawing a business opportunity to a very promising candidate specifically because of her lack of an online presence, which suggested to my colleagues that she was not well established in her field of work.
In the current climate, representing ourselves online well is incredibly important, and was a key suggestion we mentioned in our earlier article on “Post Event Networking”.
Today we will present to you four of our favourite online profile platforms that you can use for free, to direct traffic effectively, and that will take less then five minutes to set up. Continue Reading →
We have had the recent pleasure of working with a prominent Chilean cultural centre, Amanda. Last week after hearing such great things about their events I decided to go along and have a look at what all the fuss is about. I had my doubts, but there were no exaggerations from what I had heard from more than ten people about the venue, it really is as good as people are saying. Continue Reading →
Most industries have their acronyms, and the event and project management world clearly is not immune to this obsessive shortening of every phrase to TLA (three letter acronyms). A whole post could be dedicated to acronyms alone, but we will not bore you, instead, in follow-on from our latest 3-minute educational posts, we’re going to educate you on another aspect of event management – yes within three minutes you’ll know how to write a RFP.
Drawing up a RFP aka, Request for Proposals, is about more than just “requesting proposals”. It’s setting the stage for the service you expect, and can be one of the key tools of communication in terms of constructing your project team. When done well, it’s going to be a tool that will propel a project forward. As it turns out, there is a relatively simple formula that we should be following in this process.
There are times when specialised project management tools are more jargon than they are help, this is not one of those times. Identifying the critical path of a project is a skill that can be applied to any complex project, even personal ones. Here’s a quick guide to get you moving with this concept within three minutes. Continue Reading →
Maybe if you have more than 200 guests at your event you will consider it a “success”, or maybe it’s the patron’s perspectives of the experience. You may also have other factors to consider, sponsors, revenue, quality of research, community interaction, social value. Whatever you place importance on, deciding before the event gives you the ability to both focus the event on meeting that goal, and helps you pragmatically put in place the steps to measure it.
Networking, sometimes seems a lot like dating. The dating personality “types” much like the networking types, are easy to spot. There is The One-night-stand kind of networkers, they are scanning the room looking to engage in an exchange, The Speed Dater, so frantically attempting to meet everyone at the event they neglect to identify the mutually beneficial opportunities, The Seller who seems a too self-indulged for you to even want to bother with, The Mummy’s Child, they have no power of their own, they will ask they mother/boss before they even go to the bathroom, and quite frankly are not on the same level as you, the independent self starter, Ms/r All Talk, it’s all promises with this one, with no intention for follow-through, The Friend, these ones are generally nice to chat to and you have a lot in common, but for one reason or another they never take the leap and get your information… we all know them.
Whatever our dating/networking personality, we learn after much trial and error that some strategies work a lot better than others, if we want to get the most out of the experience and establish a potential contact/date for the future. Although there is something very intimidating about approaching a potential contact at an event or finding the right combination of words to start and maintain the conversation, if we do it right it pays off. But lets be honest, it’s hard work and it’s not for the faint hearted. Continue Reading →