Eco Food: Choose a Local, Organic Caterer

Eco Food: Choose a Local, Organic Caterer

In last week's Green Team article, you read how you can easily make a sustainable choice in event location just by asking. Just like questions asked of venues, those questions can be asked when selecting a caterer.

The Power of Networking? Relax and smile!

The Power of Networking? Relax and smile!

Networking at events: it seems like an obligation. And that's where you have a problem right there. If the aim is to score as many business cards as you can, and frantically introduce yourself to as many people as possible, you're actually doing it wrong.

Just Ask: What can your Event Venue do for Sustainability?

Just Ask: What can your Event Venue do for Sustainability?

Most planners have some key components in every RFP: available rooms, available meeting space, F&B requirements, A/V and technology needs, and more. Why not ask about a venue's or hotel's sustainability performance?

The Green Team: 11 Sustainable Measures for Each Event

The Green Team: 11 Sustainable Measures for Each Event

Excited about the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil? GMIC has caught World Cup fever too! They're fielding their own Green Squad of Sustainability All-Stars, each of whom represents a low cast, easily achievable best practices for sustainable meetings.

4 Incredibly Easy Ways to Use Social Media to Boost Events

4 Incredibly Easy Ways to Use Social Media to Boost Events

With the right strategy and tools in place, event organisers can harness social media to attract more attendees, cultivate engagement and extend the lifetime value of their events.

10 Ways to Gain Time

10 Ways to Gain Time

Ten successful entrepreneurs all give their two cents on gaining time and increasing your productivity. These are absolute musts for event planners who have one of the most stressful jobs in the world.

App Transforms Smartphone into Microphone for Participants

App Transforms Smartphone into Microphone for Participants

The new Crowd Mics app patches smartphones through to a venue's PA system, allowing participants at conventions, meetings or events to use their smartphones as microphones to ask questions, etc.

iBeacons, the New Revolution for Events

iBeacons, the New Revolution for Events

iBeacon is making stealthy inroads in the world of events. This technology provides your participants with an even more intense experience.

Getting Event Registration Right

Getting Event Registration Right

Julius Solaris has posted an inspiring new presentation on SlideShare. This time Julius focuses on the registration process at events. After all, this is all too often a nightmare.

Pixar's 22 Rules to Phenomenal Storytelling

Pixar's 22 Rules to Phenomenal Storytelling

Pixar conquered the world with animated films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, ... Pixar's secret? The art of storytelling. As a speaker and/or event planner you can learn a lot from that!

TOP Visual Design Trends for 2014

TOP Visual Design Trends for 2014

Women of all shapes, beards, hands-on fathers, ... these are just some of the design trends for 2014. And say goodbye to vampires. From now on witches are in.

8 Things NOT to do at the Office Party

8 Things NOT to do at the Office Party

There are some things you should not do at the office party. Here are 8 sensible don'ts.

10 Event Trends for 2014

10 Event Trends for 2014

Every year blogger Julius Solaris from Event Manager Blog publishes an overview of the most significant trends affecting events. Here is his prediction for 2014.

5 Tips for a Low-Budget Wedding

5 Tips for a Low-Budget Wedding

Planning on taking that big step to tie the knot, yet are afraid it will cost an arm and a leg for a beautiful wedding? No worries. Getting married doesn't need to break the bank.

Anatomy of An Effective Event Website

Anatomy of An Effective Event Website

How does the perfect event website look like? Blogger Julius Solaris made an infograph with handy tips to design and build effective even websites.

Start-Up: Sli.do

Start-Up: Sli.do

Actively engaging your audience in your conference or event has nowadays become one of the most important prerequisites for success.

13 Hidden Hotel Charges Unveiled

13 Hidden Hotel Charges Unveiled

The days of knowing just how much your hotel bill would be beforehand are long gone. Hotels will try to pamper you more and more as a guest by offering additional services.

What if... no one wants to come to your event?

What if... no one wants to come to your event?

Have you ever attended an event where you thought, "Oh, I wish I was somewhere else." Or perhaps the other way around: an event that you really looked forward to?

12 Innovative TIPS to Attract More People to Your Trade Booth

12 Innovative TIPS to Attract More People to Your Trade Booth

How do you attract visitors to your booth? Exhibition organizers usually lay the responsibility for this at the door of the exhibitors themselves. But what if the exhibitors are dissatisfied with the results and don’t participate next time?

Are you Making the Most of Small Event Spaces?

Are you Making the Most of Small Event Spaces?

Small event locations are easy to find. But what should you look out for when choosing a small space - and how can you make the best use of it?