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Julia
If you plan events as a third party planner or as an employee or volunteer within an association or organization, this will help you to assess what collecting personal information requires. Although privacy concerns have always been an issue with collecting information about attendees, it has taken Covid to get people to pay attention. As…
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I was speaking with my husband about charity golf tournaments and in our conversation a very common misconception came up. It is my husband’s belief, and that of many others, that when a charity runs an event that they are making good money on registration alone and the rest of the money is just gravy.…
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I have supported the LGBTQ2+ community forever. Why? Because one of my favorite uncles is gay. I was young and didn’t know that he was “different”, just that he was my uncle and I loved him. Then, one of my cousins came out as gay and is a friggin’ awesome drag queen, to boot! Support…
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“We’ve always done it this way” can now be thrown into the trash can (where it always should have been). Thanks to Covid, you have an opportunity to breath new life into your event. This is your chance to dust off the cobwebs and clear out the dead weight that has been holding your event…
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Grants are a great way to help support your events and organization financially. A grant is described by Wikipedia as; “Grants are non-repayable funds or products disbursed or given by one party (grant makers), often a government department, corporation, foundation or trust, to a recipient, often (but not always) a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or…
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The learning curve for the events industry has been crazy in the last nine months. It’s not that virtual events and hybrid events didn’t already exist but they certainly were not as a “mainstream” as they are now. Along with learning new technology we’ve had to get a handle on learning new terminology. Words we…
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Five months into the Covid pandemic we held 2 live events. This event was originally scheduled for the middle of July 2020 but with the pandemic it laid in limbo until about 3 weeks before we were supposed to go live. We went back and forth trying to figure out what the best thing to…
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Christmas and holiday parties are certainly going to look a little different in 2020 but it doesn’t mean they can’t still be memorable and exciting. We have talked with some of the best in the industry about how they are helping to bring holiday celebrations to life this year. As an event management company our…
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The new world requires speakers’ content to be adjusted, they need to make their home office their new stage and learning how to engage the attendees, when often not even being able to see them, is becoming a newly acquired talent.
We have created this downloadable speaker guide to help.
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Back when Covid started I wrote a blog post about whether you still needed an event planner or not now that your event has gone virtual. Here is my update on that thought now that we are at the 6 month mark of this life changing pandemic. You need an event planner now more than…
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