Are you one of the many event planners who wonders what life was like before you iPad? I can’t tell you how many event planning conferences I go to and observe planners clutching their ipads as they hustle from session to session or use it to voraciously type their notes or communicate with their online […]
I speak all of the time about the importance of telling stories in business and in events. Stories help to create intangible value, they break down complex ideas and most of what we store in our brains are attached to a story. We’re hardwired to not only tell stories, but to learn from them and […]
This megalist of Event Planning online tools appeared in my Feb/Mar Connections column in Event Solutions Magazine. Planners are being challenged to work faster, harder and more efficiently. The past few years have seen a cumulative number of tools created to help us accomplish more. I take great delight when I find a tool that helps […]
For the past few years, Augmented Reality has been gaining a lot of buzz…and for good reason. According to Wikipedia: Augmented reality (also referred to as AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input, such as sound or graphics. The idea of […]
If you read my post a few weeks ago about Quora for event planners, you know (so far) I’m a fan. Over the past few weeks, it’s seen an explosion of users, and some really fantastic questions have been asked and answered. Here are a few of my favorites: What goes into a fantastic creative brief? […]