Five Tools Event Volunteers Need Access To

As an event management professional, you aren’t simply managing events – you’re also managing people.  In order to run a conference and ensure that things are going smoothly, you need a team. You need vendors, partners and speakers. You need venue owners and security. Perhaps most importantly you need volunteers. I’ll be frank here: volunteers are the unsung heroes of event planning. While it’s the event planner that handles the logistics and gets everyone coordinated, it’s ultimately the volunteers who ensure that everything is going smoothly. They often man check-in, direct attendee traffic and address questions, concerns, and complaints. Never-mind…

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Six Pieces of Advice for Running a Tournament

So, you want to run a tournament, do you? There’s more to it than you’d think; it’s not simply a matter of getting a few folks together, setting up some brackets, and handing out a shiny trophy at the end. Aside from all the stuff you’d ordinarily have to deal with while running an event, there are certain logistics to consider. Ignore them, and your awesome tournament is bound to be a bust. Keep Registration Reasonable Where tournaments are concerned, registration tends to be a bit of a tough topic; how much you charge depends both on what you’re offering…

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Keeping Up With Current Events in Your Field

One of the more important (yet least cited) jobs you have got, as an event manager, is to keep abreast of what’s going on in your industry. Possessing up-to-date knowledge of the current conversations, news, and controversies affecting a given field allows you to make your events more current, relevant, and interesting to attendees. Consequently, being completely out of the loop (or worse, possessing an outdated notion of an industry) could easily result in boring, irrelevant, or valueless events. It might sound like a herculean task at first. With all the other tasks on your plate, how could you possibly…

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Getting The Press to Attend Your Events

Invite the Press to cover your trade show, tournament or conference – press coverage is one of the best ways to gain mass exposure for your event. This marketing strategy seems obvious, but…evidently is not. I’ve seen more than a few events where journalists barely have a presence. Journalists and bloggers provide free exposure. That’s a crazy opportunity to ignore. Particularly if you’re running some sort of consumer-targeted trade show, you need the press. So, is there a secret to getting The Press to attend? Surely, it can’t be as easy as asking! Actually, you’d be surprised. Discover Who Is…

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Introducing the Tweetwall Chrome App

Today we’re proud to announce the release of the Tweetwall Chrome App. Whether you use Google Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux or Chrome OS—we support it, and quite beautifully I might add…

The video below shows just how easy it is to install the Tweetwall Chrome app in Chrome OS and launch your Tweetwall. Even if you’re not using Chrome OS, the app’s interface and how it functions are still the same.

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