“Food allergies affect as many as three to four percent of adults.” Government of Canada, Healthy Canadians. Food plays a central role in meetings, association conferences and events, and it is extremely important that event planner address food allergies safely and professionally. The first step to ensure that all [...]
One of the hot new topics for the modern meeting planner and event planner is how to build “wellness” into a conference. In fact, for more than one of our association management clients this is a strategic consideration for their upcoming events. Meeting Planner or Event Planner = Wellness [...]
You may have seen a few of our earlier blogs, Breaking Down your Food and Beverage Budget and Satisfying Your Delegates Appetite: Creating Your Conference Menu on a Limited Budget. This blog will expand on those ideas and focus on tips for creating the menu for your signature event. [...]
Sometimes venue sales people do not understand the challenges of a tight flip caused by back-to-back events in their venues. A recent issue I experienced was finding out from a venue that they had sold our space for an unrelated event that was occurring IN BETWEEN our event programing. [...]
You have worked tirelessly at organizing every last detail for your event and it all comes down to those few hours or days of programming. Although you may think that you have dotted all of the Is and crossed all the Ts, you still need to ensure your event [...]
Many events that you plan are likely annual events, possibly reaching the point of running themselves. You already have a great foundation for planning the event, you have a good relationship with the venue, have used the same vendors year after year and your attendees know exactly what to [...]
In my blog post Event Planning- Who’s the Boss, I discuss all of the different people who could be involved in the decision making process in an event, including volunteer committees, administrative staff and boards. As we all know, complications can easily arise when you have too many cooks in [...]
When working with committees or clients for national associations from various time zones, communication tends to be done through email. Have you ever worked with someone who communicated with you about the event solely by cc’ing you on emails? And this person then assumed you knew everything that was [...]
The cancellation of the 2012 New York City Marathon, due to Superstorm Sandy, was disappointing to the approximately 47,000 runners who dedicated months to train for the race, many of whom had already spent a significant amount of time and money to register and travel to New York for [...]
Anyone who has ever taken over a position from someone else knows that everyone has a unique way of filing electronic documents. Saving a file in one place may make sense to me but is not necessarily logical to my colleague. This issue came to the forefront in our [...]
