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Monday evening I was lucky enough to attend a videotaped panel session hosted by New Relic, an applications performance monitoring website.  It was pretty techy and a little over my head at times, but it was also interesting to hear how technology is changing the game...

When I find a great article it seems rude not to share.  "The One Conversation Tool That Will Make You Better at Absolutely Everything"  may or may not make you better at everything, but it's certainly worth a...

Steven H. Klinghoffer, President of  WPI Communications, Inc. is sharing his wisdom as a guest blogger of The Chicago Event Planner. Regardless of the nature of your business, you may have heard the words “content marketing” or...

Be sure to stay on top of this month's conventions!  While January tends to be slow, the Chicago Boat  Show is expected to bring in nearly 75,000 attendees.  The Chicago Tourism & Convention Bureau helpfully provides a list of Chicago Conventions so...

The word "Creative" gets thrown around a lot in the event planning industry.  So how do you define what it means to be creative and better yet, how do you BECOME creative?  It's really quite easy: switch the word creativity with resourcefulnes....

For most people involved in the event planning & hospitality world this is a busy time of year (and to be fair, anyone in retail too).  So how do you prepare for the holiday rush?   By being really super organized.  It's obvious but it's true....

Love to share great articles from other blogs.  Here is one from Cvent for Corporate Event Themes.http://blog.Cvent.com/blog/executiveoasis/event-themes

Holiday season is upon us.  That means lots of upcoming events on top of business as usual.  Make sure you know what's going on this month while you're making your Thanksgiving plans and getting in holiday shopping somewhere between planning and organizing...