By Slade Thompson Spring and Summer 2020 have brought a plethora of difficult decisions to the desks of event planners around the world. Should we postpone? Should we cancel? Should we do a virtual event? You probably have tackled many of those questions already. But maybe you have not had……
Our Collaboration Drives Innovation series aims to provide help and advice specific to this unique moment in time. So far we’ve tackled working from home and participant coaching. This week, Account Director Janelle Benuska, shares what she has learned about rescheduling and reinventing events. “Plans are of little…
By David Kramer & Kari Johnson Throughout the year, we’ll be presenting our top ten tips for improving event production. We first visited this topic in 2012, but we have learned so much since then that we have even more to say. The first tip we… Read More
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: time for the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference! This ain’t our first rodeo: Every February, we pack our bags, and this year, we are breaking out our cowboy boots because we’re fixin’ to giddy on up to Austin, Texas!… Read More
We posed a question to our staff and the event industry at large via Facebook. The question was, “What is the best lesson you have learned from working events?” The answers were so compelling that we just had to share! No matter what your past experience… Read More
All throughout the year, we are energized by the here and now. We are present to the daily delights, challenges, solutions and successes. The details and momentum of event life garner our attention and carry us along. But as we enter a new year, let’s take a moment to sit……
By Erin De Baets Walkie-talkies are cool. Or at least I think they are. Maybe I was subconsciously influenced in my youth by a steady diet of movies that showed characters using two-way radios (like this one, this one, or… Read More
The Event 360 team is proud to partner with Team RWB to produce their brand new P2P fundraising event – the Epic Eagle Challenge! After many months of concepting and planning, the new event will launch this November in two locations. We are honored and excited to be…
By Jake Geiger This past June, a small but mighty team from Event 360 wrapped up the spring season with the MMRF Team for Cures 5K walk/run at Calf Pasture Beach Park in Norwalk, CT. This was the 43rd 5K that Event 360 has produced for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.…
By Cheryl Stern We recently delved into some takeaways from the two hit documentaries about Fyre Festival, the disastrous luxury music festival of 2017 that shall live in infamy. (See FYRE’D UP, Part 1.) Now that we’ve explored our thoughts on the… Read More
By Cheryl Stern If you’ve paid any attention to pop culture as of late, you’re already aware that this month brought us not one, but two documentaries about Fyre, the doomed luxury music festival of 2017. The sordid tales behind the planning and execution of the festival-gone-wrong… Read…
By Gina Guerreso With the New Year upon us, preparations for events in 2019 are well underway. Still, we find it’s important to hit the pause button and reflect on getting to this point. We celebrate our successes, but can’t forget the challenges, the times we were pushed outside of……
By David Kramer Imagine planning five events for one client in an event season. Not so unusual for those of us in event planning, right? Now imagine all five of those events will happen in two back-to-back weekends… spread out in different cities across the country. It becomes a bit……
By Dawn Clark and Erin De Baets *Well, maybe not always… We’ve all heard that old expression, “The customer is always right,” a saying meant to encourage service providers to exhaust all measures to make and keep their customers happy. For many of us in the event world, our customers……
By Mark Dolce There’s an old saying among event production people that, “Skepticism is the lazy man’s consolation.” Not really, but I often long for a world in which such notional pronouncements are tossed out as commonly as acronym-laden Tweet-speak. I know, LOL, dream on, bub. That line about skepticism……
By Devin Trezise There’s been a lot of talk about the importance of self-care in mainstream culture lately. Life gets busy, things are hectic, and what better way to deal with that than making sure you take a little time for yourself amidst the hustle and bustle? There’s an equivalent……
By Patrick Riley Congratulations. Your board of directors just approved the budget for your event to expand to a new market, or you have a group of volunteers that have agreed to help with that awesome DIY event in a nearby state, or the new event concept is…
By Molly Fast As people who put on events for a living, it’s so important that we carry the right tools, equipment and supplies with us, am I right? We think about things like zip ties and toilet paper. Don’t even think about forgetting the gas for the generator or……
By Rene Tamayo Anyone who has been in the event production industry for some time understands that taking care of yourself amidst the stress and enormous demands of an event is critical to getting through and enjoying the event for which you and your team have worked so hard. Not only……
By Dave Kramer Time to get out of bed, find that quick boost of caffeine and put on the clothes you set aside last night ― it’s event day and you’re headed to your site. It is 3:30 a.m. on Saturday after all, you wouldn’t want to be late, would……
by Jillian Schranz
As we wrap up our Collaboration Drives Innovation blog series, we reflect…
By Molly Fast
Continuing our Collaboration Drives Innovation series, which looks at ways we…
By Slade Thompson
Spring and Summer 2020 have brought a plethora of difficult decisions to…
As we live through a paradigm shift confronting racism, inequities, and a global pandemic, we’re…
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