After putting a lot of time and effort into an event, it can leave you exhausted and ready to forget it and move on to whatever is next on your list (including maybe that vacation you dreamed about). But an event professional’s work is never done not even when the event itself is over. Just […]
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So you have just been given the green light to get working on that event which has been waiting in the wings for the past couple of months and you have a “to do” list a mile long of things you need to get done – Invitations, flyers, e-mails, sponsors, program, speakers, marketing campaigns, […]
Read MoreSo I have been reading yet another article or two on improving attendee experience at events and meetings and felt I needed to chime in here on the discussion. Why another blog on this topic? Well partly because I have been both an event professional and an attendee – as I am sure most of […]
Read MoreIn a previous rsvpBOOK “Bits from the BOOK” Blog, (Feeling Your Pain – Five Pain Points for Event Professionals), I talked about one serious pain point for event professionals is being stuck in old event registration and management habits. Everything from paper registrations, voluminous binders with spreadsheets tracking attendance and event financials, long on-site check-in […]
Read MoreOutbreak – January 2016 It wasn’t that long ago – January 2016 to be exact – that the outbreak of a mosquito-borne virus adversely affecting pregnant women was making its way into the news headlines worldwide. The Zika virus spread across South America, Central American and the Caribbean and eventually arrived in the southern United […]
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