The Friday 5 – December 7

Well, it is almost the end of the year. That means holiday shopping, parties, and catching up on my business book reading. I am almost finished with Traci Browne’s “The Social Trade Show” and I can safely recommend it before I am even done. Go grab a copy, there is a link from her blog.

Without much ado (I am on my way to a meeting), here is today’s Friday 5. We have some from a couple of newcomers to the list and three old favorites.

I think that Apple does one of the best jobs of marketing products ever in the history of, well, history. Beyond just the marketing, Jeff has some lessons you can learn from them as well.

Seriously, how can I leave out Liz’s post that puts PlannerWire on par with two of the best industry blogs out there. I don’t want to pull a Wayne’ World but “We’re Not Worthy!!!”.

Online stuff is great, the food you serve is important, and of course speakers matter but what will make or break you is lighting and sound. This guest post by Oliver Carding on Jenise’s blog can get your going in the right direction.

OK, If you are not playing to Tablet and Mobile users with conference handouts, apps, and interaction, you are going to be left out to dry pretty soon, looking like a tumbleweed from some old western movie.

Now that you have gone mobile and have the freaking kick ass app that is slaying the conference world and making the ladies swoon and the men faint, you might want to make sure that you have a good privacy policy.

Speaking of Wayne’s World

 

The Friday Five – November 16th

Thanksgiving time again. A time to visit family and friends and most importantly, take a week off. None of that 4 day weekend stuff for me, no siree.

Anyway, here are 5 posts that will make you a better meeting and event planner.

Enjoy the holiday!

From Jeff Hurt we have:

If You Really Understood Digital Disruption You Would Be Shaking In Your Boots

From Oliver Carding (via Jenise’s blog) we have:

The Importance of Audio Visual to a Successful Event

From the Social Media Examiner we have:

How to Measure Your Social Media Traffic Using Google Analytics

From Smart Blog on Social Media we have:

How Food Network brought everyone around its social media table

From Danny Brown we have:

Why HR Needs to Address Social Media

The Friday 5 – November 2

Queen Mary for Meetings and Events

OK, where did this week go?

I got a chance to visit the Queen Mary in Long Beach California and it is an amazing hotel and venue for events, I launched two new client websites, and last night I spoke to students in the meeting and event planning program at Kendall College in Chicago for a couple of hours…. busy is good but the time flew by! [Read more...]

The Friday 5 – October 26

Happy Friday people, it seems like it has been a whole week since we were last here.

To all of my family, friends, clients, and colleagues on the East Coast stay safe, Hurricane Sandy is going to be nasty. For real people, they are calling this thing “Frankenstorm”…. not “storm of the century”, “once in a lifetime”… .they are calling it FRANKENSTORM. I know that some of my friends (and family) think it would be cool to go out and “check it out”… please, just stay in this time, I am getting bad ju-ju from this one. [Read more...]

The Friday Five – October 19th

I hope that this week was a productive one kiddies. As this post hits those interwebs, I will just about be wheels up for a site inspection trip to Norfolk, VA. More on that next week. .. including some pictures.

In the meantime, here are 5 awesome posts that are going to make you a kick ass meeting planner. [Read more...]