Foxtrot by Bill Amend
Today I am off to the Chicago History Museum to see two exhibits with my family; it is my Mom’s birthday and this is what she wants to do (cool mom huh!).
We are going to see Facing Freedom and Out in Chicago. Both sound really interesting to me.
If you are a meeting or event planner and do not have a backup of your important planning documents, you are an idiot. All meeting and event planners should have some type of cloud storage.
So, a report came out yesterday and lists American’s as the worst tourists in the world.
Produced by LivingSocial and Mandala Research, the survey polled some 5,600 respondents from five countries and it is basically a load of crap. No country has the worst tourists in the world. I would venture to say that there are idiots from every country on the globe…. every single one.
This is a post by our regular contributor Trish Rafferty, CMP. Trish is the Senior Meeting Manager with Meetings in Medicine in NYC. Follow her on Twitter @theFunctionista.
How did the girl with the reputation for throwing bad parties in college end up a meeting planner? It’s been an interesting journey and I am amazed to be marking 20 years in the meetings industry. Looking back I’ve packed lots of memorable experiences into the past two decades; some good, some bad, but somehow all of them combined have kept me in the business for so many years.
Today features a guest post by Christine Christman
“Christine has worked in the trade show industry since 1982. She recently created the NowWhat? eGuide for Trade Show Exhibitors and also works as content producer for the Exhibitor eTrak online seminars and blog. You can contact her at christine@tradeshowexhibitor.net.
“They promoted 5,000 attendees at that show but we only got 100 leads. Where was everyone?”
What’s the problem here? I’ve been thinking about this lately while observing #expochats, #eventprofs and exhibitor groups on LinkedIn. Show producers are talking to show producers. Exhibitors are talking to exhibitors. But I am wondering, where are the exhibitors and show producers talking to each other. Is there an mutually isolating nature about these two positions?
Computers are breaking all over the office this week, sometimes I think that they are out to get me. Luckily, I live in Chicago and we are fortunate to have TigerDirect Store and a MicroCenter right down the street from each other. It is like Geek Nirvana……….Clicky Mechanical Keyboard here I come.
This is a post by our regular contributor Trish Rafferty, CMP. Trish is the Senior Meeting Manager with Meetings in Medicine in NYC. Follow her on Twitter @theFunctionista.
Calling an Audible Onsite
Planning meetings is not about being the most popular person in the room; it’s about running the best meeting possible. This is the mantra I repeated to myself when I arrived at a restaurant three hours prior to a dinner program realizing I had to make significant changes in a short time to pull off a successful event.
Keyboard shortcuts and cheat sheets for any computer application can make you a better meeting and event planner. They make you a better meeting planner by adding more time to your day and time is the one commodity that all meeting planners have in short supply.
That being said, here are 10 places for you to find great shortcuts and even some cheat sheets to speed up your day.
Lots to do this weekend including taking my rocking little guy to see Star Wars, Episode I in the theater. Unlike us old folks, he is actually going to see Star Wars starting with Episode I ( I never did get the whole starting with number 3, but hey, that is why I am in events and not in film production).
So, some new study is out that says meeting and event planners have the 6th most stressful job. All over the world meeting planners are high fiving and saying “Hell Yeah, our work is hard, we are billy bad ass!”.
To that I say…. Bullshit, our job is only as stressful as we make it. I will not deny that sometimes the shit hits the fan and buses break down, speakers don’t show up and food can be terrible but come on, really….If we do our jobs correctly and plan for as many contingencies as possible, our job should be no more stressful than any other white collar gig.
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