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We offer a lot of little tips and tricks for events—like doing social media for events, planning events, knowing event industry terms, and more. And this little corner of our blog is where you’ll find all of those event tips. Good luck!

Everything You Need To Know About Using Tweetwall

There’s a lot that goes into being a great event management professional. You’ve got to be a natural storyteller who’s great with people, a born leader, and a logistics master with a head for numbers. You’ve got to be capable of thriving in a high stress work environment, and picking up on the energy of those around you to keep yourself going. You’ve also got to have a great toolkit at your disposal – a set of applications and equipment that makes your job easier and your events better. You need to understand how, when, and where to use your […]

Ten Best Practices For Keeping Your Mobile Event Platform Secure

Like it or not, event management is increasingly becoming a highly technological field – particularly where mobile’s concerned. The power and efficiency that smartphones and tablets bring to the table for event organizers and their teams are just too incredible to ignore. As a result, we’re seeing mobile devices being utilized in an increasingly diverse fashion within the event industry. There’s just one problem – in a lot of cases, those devices might not necessarily be secure. See, here’s the thing about mobile. Although it may well be one of the most powerful productivity enhancement tools in human history, it […]

A Look At The Event Industry’s Obsession With Slideshare

The event industry – and honestly, enterprise in general – seems to have something of an unhealthy obsession with a little service known as Slideshare. Marketed as the world’s largest community for the sharing of presentations, the site allows pretty much anyone to design and upload a slideshow, which can then be shared across the web (or at a presentation). It’s basically PowerPoint set up to run with web 2.0. On the surface, the reason for this fascination seems pretty clear. Slideshare allows speakers to readily display facts, figures, and charts to the audience. They allow for something of a […]

Past Event Data Should Impact Future Strategies

As an event organizer, you want nothing more than to achieve a high level of success. After all, everything will fall back on you in the end. Rather than look at the event planning process as a blank slate, it would be in your best interest to examine the past. Ask these questions: What were the successes and failures of your last event? Looking back, what would you change about how you marketed the event? Are there any changes you can make this time around to avoid the same mistakes? As you address these types of questions, make it a […]

How You Can Keep WiFi Secure At Your Events

As I’m certain you’ve heard on more than one occasion, mobile technology isn’t going to go away. Smartphones and tablets are today as much a part of our lives as electricity. What that means from an event management perspective is that it’s expected – or more like demanded – by attendees that a public WiFi connection is available at the events they attend. After all, they need to be able to connect to the Internet in order to share their experience, don’t they? It’s not just mobile technology, either. As I’ve noted on more than one occasion, embedded devices – […]