Black Tech Mecca: Changing the World of Technology
Chicago is known for it's amazing food and copious number of conferences amongst many other things, but where the city would like to grow? Technology. One way to grow the technology scene in Chicago is to expand the demographic of who is building it. CPM sat down...
What’s Happening in June 2016
Major Events & Conventions Networking Events Fundraising Events Tuesday, June 21, 2016 from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM @ Fremont - 15 West Illinois Street, Chicago, IL 60654 - Tickets Starting at $25 (Click the image...
How to Plan the Perfect Dinner Party
You are the host, so unless you have help, make sure that whatever you are serving allows you some time to interact with your guests while still providing them with what they need.
Women Leaders in Business: Cynthia Johnson
Cynthia Johnson is a dynamic go-getter and her efforts to be successful in the male-dominated field of technology have lead her to be featured by major publications like Forbes, AdWeek, The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, TIME and many others. LinkBird has listed her...
What’s Happening in May 2016
Major Events & Conventions Love Bacon? Time Out Chicago has all the info on BaconFest starting this month and many more fun events! (click the image) Click Here for Networking Events from Crain's...
Black Tech Mecca: Changing the World of Technology
Chicago is known for it's amazing food and copious number of conferences amongst many other things, but where the city would like to grow? Technology. One way to grow the technology scene in Chicago is to expand the demographic of who is building it. CPM sat down...
What’s Happening in June 2016
Major Events & Conventions Networking Events Fundraising Events Tuesday, June 21, 2016 from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM @ Fremont - 15 West Illinois Street, Chicago, IL 60654 - Tickets Starting at $25 (Click the image...
How to Plan the Perfect Dinner Party
You are the host, so unless you have help, make sure that whatever you are serving allows you some time to interact with your guests while still providing them with what they need.
Women Leaders in Business: Cynthia Johnson
Cynthia Johnson is a dynamic go-getter and her efforts to be successful in the male-dominated field of technology have lead her to be featured by major publications like Forbes, AdWeek, The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, TIME and many others. LinkBird has listed her...
What’s Happening in May 2016
Major Events & Conventions Love Bacon? Time Out Chicago has all the info on BaconFest starting this month and many more fun events! (click the image) Click Here for Networking Events from Crain's...
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...
Ask The Right Questions – An Article from FastCompany
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...
Building Powerful Relationships with Content Marketing
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...
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....
Cvent- 10 Themes for Corporate Events
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
Events & Conferences for November 2012
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...
Halloween Parties in Chicago 2012
It's the week of Halloween. Have you made plans yet? In case you haven't I've listed some links below with great ideas of places to go for the holiday.Hurry up and get your tickets while you still have...
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