I am hearing things that should have not happened are indeed happening. I heard of people going to BarCamps and complaining about 15 minute spamming sessions. I’ve heard of unattentive organizers preferring the pitch of a product, a software or a blog over discussion and creation. This is what unconferences should not be. By pitching […]
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Work Breakdown Structure and Details
Events are about details. If you don’t pay attention to details I strongly suggest you pursue another career path, or alternatively read below. If you are convinced that details are indeed a priority I strongly suggest you think about using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to manage your next event. Project managers use WBS to […]
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. […]