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Technology from the Developers of the 2012 Obama Campaign

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...

January 2013 Conventions

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...

How to be a Creative Event Planner

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....

5 Organizational Tips to Prepare for the Holidays

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....