1. What cultural characteristics should one consider when planning an event in Atlanta?
Jack Mardack and Eventbrite
Eventbrite is an online ticketing and registration platform for events. It is one of the most adopted and therefore definitely worth a review and interview with its Director of Marketing, Jack Mardack. How does it work? Few things that I love about the service: – There is no standard price. They earn a percentage based […]
ecoCamp: a case study
Most of my afficionados know that I’ve worked in the past two months at ecoCamp, a BarCamp about the environment, ecology, sustainability and energy. The event took place yesterday 29th of March 2008 in Conversano – Italy. This post sums up what happened before, during and after the event, from an event management perspective. As […]
When going green is not enough
Last week I had the chance to read about De-growth. I am very convinced now that less is actually more. I think the concept behind the movement outperforms every green/sustainable theory so far. It is quite embarrassing there is no Wikipedia entry about it in English. I will commit to translate it from Italian. There […]
Technical Difficulties
Apologies to all those that connected in the last four hours. Either a bug in WordPress or host troubles or a pseudo-hacker attack are undermining the Event Manager Blog. We’ll survive. In the meanwhile you won’t be able to get some pictures, but 100% of the content should be there and links should be working. […]
Why can’t we be friends?
While my visit at Confex 2008 did not leave me with the best memory, I had an interesting meeting with my friend Rob. He participates a lot in Event-Management-Uk a great website and forum about events with an awful lot of information on events. I could see his dedication and willingness to share information, define […]