Save the date, my dear reader: 2PM EST – Thursday April 14, 2011 This will be a fantastic opportunity to get some practical advice on event marketing and social media. As well as to hear some incredible Italian accent from your beloved editor. Well, jokes aside, Cvent and MeetingsNet put together a great line up […]
Forget about QR Codes. NFC Will Rule Your Event
In a bold move, Google ditched QR and Barcodes in favour of NFC (Near Field Communication). What does that mean for the future of online/offline integration? QR codes have been widely discussed in the event industry for the capability to perform online actions offline. Services such as Likify give a great deal of tangibility to […]
Wedding Planner’s Toolbox: 10 Tools to Help You Plan Your Wedding
Wedding Planning amazes me. The number of tools, books and blogs about it are astonishing. It looks like sometimes a big chunk of the industry revolves just around events. Well to cut it short, enter Shana, who’s gonna show you some great tools. This is a guest post by Shana Fu is the founder of […]
Proxlet: Your Antiemetic Therapy for Twomiting
I’ve been talking about how , should not be encouraged by event planners. OK but what about us followers, annoyed by others’ tweets? Well I am here today, dear reader, to introduce Proxlet. Proxlet is a great service to get rid of those annoying tweets by wise hashtag filtering. Before you even think about commenting […]
Facebook Introduces Check-Ins for Events
While I was busy writing a post on how Foursquare and Facebook were missing out on enabling check ins for events, here comes the news. . The Story This is unconfirmed yet and it is showing up only for some users, but Facebook has introduced what was one of the most absurdely ingored opportunities of […]
Organize Your Party On the Go with Hurricane Party
Location and mobile are so hot right now. It looks like mobiles are becoming the missing piece on the online/offline integration jigsaw puzzle. With high spirits (in the same fashion of the above pic), I salute Hurricane Party. How would I define it? Hurricane Party is a mobile app that empowers party animals to organize, […]
Twoppy Makes Your Event Mobile
We have been looking lately at how technology is evolving in such a way that building a website for your event is becoming easier and cheaper than you think. We have also looked at how mobile is becoming event professionals’ secret weapon to deliver a consistent experience on all touchpoints. And here comes Twoppy. What […]
20+ WordPress Themes for Your Event Website
I’ve covered extensively how WordPress is a fantastic alternative for creating a fully functional, cutting edge website for your event when on a limited budget. A common mistake is that when you have decided to opt for WordPress as your event Content Management System (CMS) you rely on free themes to handle the look and […]