Event Management

I’ve been talking previously on how important is to break down in small packages the activities of a project. Once we have small packages of activities and we assigned a temporal weight to them, it might be useful to organize them chronologically in a Gantt Chart. A Gantt Chart visually summarizes the timing of a […]

As I said in a previous post there is nothing a spreadsheet cannot achieve.Here is how I used Calc (or Excel) to manage Speakers and their cost to the organization. It helped me to organize and rationalize things. Obviously sensible data have been obscured. Enjoy Download Template

A Work Breakdown Structure helps in organizing what needs to be done in small packages of activities. There are several benefits in organizing the work in such manner, i.e. assigning tasks to team members or compute the time required to carry out the project. There are different levels of packages we could identify when designing […]

A characteristic of Web 2.0 is social networking. Events are seen positively by Web 2.0 initiatives. There are in fact multiple services that offer events scheduling. For event managers around the globe such platforms could become good (and cheap) promotional tools. The power of such tools is word of mouth the tool is the web. […]

One of the most crucial skills of an event coordinator is to keep things under control. In order to do that it is necessary to breakdown the event in packages of activities. Sometimes identifying such activities could be an hassle. I’ve aways used packages maps that suggests items which I might not consider when brainstorming. […]

Events can be seen as small projects, one-off activities conceived to meet the needs of a particular group. As for projects events have specific performance requirements, which means that they need to be delivered on time and within specific budget boundaries. In this view, events could be seen as a series of tasks that need […]

Good planning should be at the heart of any event but before you get to planning, get analyzing. SWOT analysis is one of the best tools. Here's how to do it easily.

A list apart posts an interesting document on how to plan manpower for a(web)team. The article gives interesting suggestions on how to come up with a team and decide the level of activity required. Managing online activity could be the case for a lot of us out there….let’s have a look then.

Lifehacker posts on a new web based event management tool. Event Wax looks very interesting in its features specially for the paypal facility, xml export and rss capability. A nice tool for small conferences and events.

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