So 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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It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Or so the phrase goes in Charles Dickens’ book, A Tale of Two Cities. That’s how I often felt in my days as the event director for a small non-profit when the thrill of a great event would send me soaring but often […]
Read MoreMany years ago when my day job was the event manager at a national non-profit, I first encountered the prefix “#” before a word and thought it was a typo. OK, I am from a different generation which did not grow up with the vast array of social media options which are so popular today. […]
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