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Partying stain- and worry-free with the SOS-partykit
On an event or a party, accidents are never far away. An unexpected stain, a surprise rip in your outfit or your hairdo sags. With the following items in your pocket, your guests will never be surprised and you stay on top of every partypooper.
'Expensive DJs are Killing the Festival Business'
Famous DJs that ask too much for their sets endanger the future of festivals, according to Duncan Stutterheim, festival organizer and founder of ID&T.
TOP 7 Qualities of a Great Event Manager
What does it take to be a great event manager? You might think that nowadays with all the abundance of software to help you plan, manage, market and run smoothly your event it’s been easy to become truly great at that job. Well, you are wrong.
Extra Security on eventplanner.tv Website
Hacked websites, leaked data, publicized passwords, ... Cyber attacks reach the news just about every week. eventplanner.tv too realizes the risks and takes extra security precautions.
Start-Up: Jifflenow Makes Planning Easy
With Jifflenow the planning of meetings, seminars, workshops etc at B2B events (congresses, conferences etc) becomes a breeze.
Have Your Community Become Your Event's Speaker System
How do you promote your event? Do you use email marketing? What about banner ads? There are tons of ways to promote your event. Yet, people still seem to forget about utilizing their community to help them promote.
Skype Translator: The End of Simultaneous Translation?
Is the end of simultaneous translation near? Iff you're Skyping in English or Spanish, the software simultaneously translates your conversation. We are very curious what possibilities this technology will offer to international events.
How to (Secretly) Stay Sober at a Party
Whether it's at the New Year's party of your work or a night in the pub with your friends: those who don't drink alcohol are often seen as boring party poopers. But there are plenty of ways to stay sober without being labeled as a party pooper
Glass Automatically Skims Beer Head Perfectly
The perfect beer head! Many a bar has seen endless discussions about the subject. From now on, these discussions are history. With the FndF automatic beer skimmer, you will always get the right beer head.
When is a Powerpoint-Presentation Really Useful?
Now that every congress- and meeting room is standardly equipped with a projector, Powerpoint-presentations are both used and abused. Especially abused.
Start-Up: Eversnap Collects Photos of All Guests
Eversnap lets you collect all the photos and videos of all the guests at your event in one online photo album. Nowadays everyone takes their own pictures at weddings, festivals, or other events.
4 Tips to Manage Onsite Event Changes
When you think of the events industry, Murphy's Law probably comes to mind 'anything that can go wrong will go wrong'. Everyone knows events are magic and somehow everything comes into place last minute...
Tips for a Healthy Work-Life Balance as Event Manager
'Event Manager' is one of the most stressful jobs in the world. We are connected always and everywhere. But is this really healthy? Where do you draw the line between professional and private?
Twitter for #eventprofs - Infographic
Twitter is a powerful tool for event professionals. Julius Solaris from eventmanagerblog gives in his infographic tips to successfully use Twitter for event marketing, PR, customer service, research and sales.
Start-Up: Locometric Scans and Draws Floor Plan
With the Locometric app you can draw a floor plan of a room in no time by simply scanning the walls. Loco Metric works quickly and efficiently.
Most Effective B2B Tactic: Events
MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute partnered again for their anual B2B marketing industry survey. Interesting to see is that 'in-person events' are in the lead of the TOP 5 most effective B2B tactics list.
Start-Up: Prezentt
Does this sound familiar: you give a beautiful presentation and your audience is extremely interested. That's all good. But how do you capture the details of all those who are interested and make sure you don't miss any leads?
Start-Up: Virtual Event Bags
Virtual event bags offer a nice alternative to the traditional goodie bags that are handed out at events. Most traditional goodie bags are filled with promotional items that are largely tossed immediately in the trashcan.
63% want Virtual Meetings
According to a study undertaken by American Express event planners, contrary to their participants, are less convinced about hosting virtual meetings - as opposed to 63% of participants who stated they would prefer virtual meetings.
Events & Technology: Hologram
Hologram: a three-dimensional image created with photographic projection. The effect can be spectacular at large events. Is this going to become the new trend?
