Wedding planner Sarah Haywood is author of the UK’s top-selling bridal book the Wedding Bible, and the recently published (Feb 2007) Wedding Bible Planner. She has recently been named one of the ten most influential people in the UK wedding industry and is founder and managing director of the inspirational Wedding Bible Company, one of […]
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Organize your (Christmas) Party with Facebook Apps
Following the success of “Organize your (Christmas) party with Google services” and the direct suggestion of our readers, here’s how you can throw your next (Xmas) party with Facebook. 1. Get a Facebook account here 2. Invite your friends to join It is likely that they (and you) already have an account but just in […]
Wedding work breakdown structure
Wedding day is indeed the most important day of your life. It is crucial that everything is at the right place and everyone knows what to do. The self made bride who does not want to use any wedding planning service should know that planning well is 90% of the job. The rest is luck. […]
Open sourcing your event. A featured interview with Harrison Owen
It is a great honor for this blog to host Harrison Owen as a part of the featured interviews section. Harrison has worked on virtually every continent with organizations ranging from small villages to large corporations and NGOs. His major concern has been to assist organizations as they negotiate a transforming world. In some cases […]
Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt and Budget Template
While the quest for My Event continues I thought I’d share with you a super useful template for managing events.The template is based on Openproj What is Openproj? As for its website “OpenProj is a free, open-source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. OpenProj has been downloaded over 150,000 times in the first weeks since it […]
The registration process
This post applies to all those events which involve a registration process. By that I mean also those events with tickets as that could be conceived as registration. First of all registration is crucial. It helps in several aspects: it gives you an idea on how much people will participate to your event it gives […]
How to be a succesful event manager
To some of my regulars, this post should have appeared long before. In fact I have been thinking about it for a while. The thing about events is that it may appear that everyone is capable of planning and executing an event. To a certain extent that is the truth. You may in fact notice […]
Gantt chart video tutorial
I realize coming up with a Gantt chart could be a bit of an hassle if you are starting from zero. I previously posted on how to make a Gantt chart, nonetheless I found also few videos on Youtube on how to create one in the easy to use Excel (pretty similar for those using […]
The death of the conference oligarchy
Following the recent post on how conferences and events should be more unconferences and unevents, I realize few parts of the above need more information. So here are the links that Wikipedia makes on Unconference, Foo Camp, Open Space, Dynamic Facilitation, Appreciative Inquiry , Speed Geeking, – The Unconference Blog– The Open Space Technology– Introduction […]