One of the earliest conversations I had with the Director General, at one of the associations where I worked, was to “advise” him that he should never again, chair one of our conferences. You can imagine how this went down! Especially as I’d only been working there a few weeks. And before you ask, I […]
Being an event planner / event organiser is one of the most dynamic jobs in the world, as well as one of the toughest. For the last few years I’ve looked at the role of the event organiser to try to keep up with how much it has changed. The “event planner / event organiser” […]
A couple of weeks ago we started crowdfunding an event for the first ever time. The event will be (should it reach its funding level of course) a Virtual Summit for Europe’s largest blog for PAs: Practically Perfect PA. You can see the Practically Perfect PA Crowdfunder appeal – it is live until the 1st June. As with all […]
No one likes to see a half empty room at any point during an event. It makes no difference that the room has been full for most of the day; it’s still a pain to see empty seats and even empty rows at the end of an event. What “traditional” ways are there to stop […]
Why do so many hotels make the ultimate mistake? You have a hotel with this view. And you have meeting rooms with this view. Really, what were you thinking? If event planners want meetings to deliver value to their attendees, they have to stop using meeting rooms like this. If venues really want to run […]
EVENTIT is part of an interesting and growing trend in the exhibition world in the UK. Event companies within smaller geographical areas are creating smaller versions of the larger London based trade shows. Those larger event industry shows like IMEX and the Meetings Show are increasingly being seen as London and the South of England […]