Management & Logistics

Twitter can be a very effective tool to harness promotional, realtime and post-event information about your event, while engaging your audience. Proper preparation and plan will ensure your tweeting is not in vain, and will contribute to the overall success.

Question & answer sessions are an important part of any presentation. It gives audience a personal opportunity to interact with the speaker. However, Q&A can be daunting to audience members, so here are some tricks of the trade to coax greater participation.

Practice does make it perfect. Sometimes, however, over-rehearsing your presentation kills the very sincerity of the message. Know when to stop & go with the flow.

Having so much food at your event that Oliver Twist wants to stay an orphan is great; but that equivalent of information will overload your attendees. Presentations need to be simple and to the point, otherwise message will not be delivered to the audience.

Amateurs forget things. Professionals don't. It's that simple. Hiring a professional event planner can save you money by doing it right the first time. They plan, they plan again, and then they plan some more. Forgetting is not a part of their dictionary.

Event planners can significantly improve their event by helping speakers help them & it's not a difficult or time-consuming task. Hiring a speaker is only half of the job. Now you have to ensure the speaker understands how he or she fits into your event.

Hacking has a bad connotation in today's general populace, but it's a way to bring people together to do GOOD work with GREAT outcomes. If you really want to change the world than hack events might be for you.

With the economy in recovery mode, optimizing your exhibit $ is more important than ever. This means going to the right trade shows and not waste resources at the wrong ones. Use these methods to optimize your best potential by finding targeted trade shows.

A handy reference guide for all companies searching for a display either to update their brand image or for beginners getting started. Many new display types are frequently added. This list focuses on the most popular displays that stand the test of time.

Event organizers should start placing more emphasis on cloakrooms — after all, it's likely to be the first and last impressions your guests will have of the event and it's also where your guests will be leaving some of their important personal belongings.