Crisis Communication: Tips for Event Safety
The swimming pool of meeting and event safety has a variety of items floating in it, from physical safety and health concerns to climate change…
The swimming pool of meeting and event safety has a variety of items floating in it, from physical safety and health concerns to climate change…
What KPIs are essential for your hybrid events? And how do you use them? Start with this guide.
Think hybrid is the future? Guess again. The team at Unbridled has unpacked lessons learned from planning more than 300 events a year.
When the pandemic shut the event industry down, the evolution of hybrid and virtual events not only gave the industry new life, but also more…
Event experimenter Matthew Homann shares his methodology on reinvention, so that you can reimagine your signature event too.
Among the many ways Will Smith’s awful behavior tarnished this year’s Academy Awards, his overshadowing of what was otherwise a milestone event for diversity and inclusion is perhaps the worst.
Five event industry panelists share insights on how ESG and DEI values can improve event production and execution.
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ELI’s rundown of eight key metrics that event planners should have on their dashboard, what they mean, and why they matter.
Howard Givner, ELI founder and CEO, shares insights on what to expect for the event industry this year and in the near future.
Set yourself up for success and safeguard your sanity when planning in-person events –– even in the face of uncertainty.
How has COVID impacted risk and crisis management? Juliette Kayyem and Frank Supovitz share how event risk management has changed and what to prepare for now.
How should event professionals attempt to navigate President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates? Read key takeaways from ELI’s recent webinar.
Hosting an in-person event, large or small? These 5 tips will help you achieve success in 2021 and beyond.
Can an event producer require attendees to show proof of vaccination? Here’s how to navigate the legal challenges of mask, vaccine, and testing requirements at events with insight from attorney Steven A. Adelman.
As the debate on whether or not to require proof of vaccination upon entry to events continues, industry experts explain how they work and best practices for using them.
New, restrictive voting laws have been proposed. The issue and others point to an environment where tools including boycotts are going to be used to try to effect social change—and planners have to be ready.
As health passes and vaccine passports make headlines, here’s what planners need to know now about using them at meetings and events.
The Event Leadership Institute explored how to create testing protocols before, during, and after events at a recent webinar. Read answers to common questions about creating an on-site COVID testing program.
Read on for 33 questions to evaluate when planning for the return of in-person events, curated from planners who recently completed our Pandemic Meeting & Event Design certificate course.
Follow these tips to create a successful multi-channel promotion plan for your virtual event.
Now that events and meetings of all kinds have moved to virtual formats, planners face additional considerations around content design. Paying careful attention to content delivery is necessary to meet online learners’ expectations and achieve overall event goals and objectives. Here are four tips for effective content design.
What will on-site events look like when they do resume? What shifts do planners need to make in their strategies and plans? And how can we convince all involved it’s safe to participate?That’s a tall order to answer, which is why we sat down with Kevin White, head of the Boston-based, award-winning experiential event agency XPL.
Whether you and your team’s goals are to find new ways to pivot this year’s meetings and events to virtual approaches or start the wheels turning for pandemic meeting and event design, here’s why embracing professional education now has a significant pay-off.
Here is an essential planning checklist to get started, which can be tailored for your specific virtual event to stay on track, on-time, and on-budget.
To understand how to successfully and strategically plan a virtual non-profit fundraising event, we talked to Lindsay Landman, founder of Beyond the Benefit and a widely respected event designer who has helped non-profits in every sector raise millions of dollars to support their missions.
Here are several tech tools to help pivot your event and meeting planning in the COVID-19 era. (This list isn’t comprehensive—just a small sampling of all the available event management and planning technology!)
To help you work with your clients during this difficult time and still pull off the wedding of their dreams, here are six budgeting tips considering the COVID-19 pandemic and the additional difficulties it presents.
Covering everything from planning and budgets to promotion and attendee engagement, use this round-up of 25 stats to develop your virtual strategy.
We’ve designed a glossary for many popular terms that come up when it comes to planning virtual events and meetings.
Planners know the care and effort it takes to find the right vendors to support the design and execution of their face-to-face events and meetings .The process is no less critical when it comes to virtual events and meetings.
Volunteers can make or break your event. A well-managed volunteer program helps them perform at the highest level and come back year after year.
It’s important for event and meeting planners to have a good grasp of basic insurance principles to ensure that they have the proper coverage for their events.
Check-in is your first opportunity to create a fantastic experience. It sets the tone for the rest of the event, and it can have a direct impact on your guests’ mood and attitude.
Whether you’re holding a fundraiser for the first time or the tenth time, you need to market it. Without overthinking all the clever tactics or paid marketing opportunities (your last option if you’re trying to raise money), try picking the low-hanging fruit.
To raise funds, many nonprofits and charities turn to silent and live auctions. But auctions are labor-intensive, and not all organizations are equipped to produce them.
Finding unique ways to get our attendees involved is the key to creating exceptional events and keep your clients coming back meeting after meeting.
In event and meeting management, it is critical that timelines are established for the planning team, clients, suppliers, venue and others involved with the planning and delivery of the event.
Research tells us why individual donors give. Aligning major event objectives with the reasons they give is one way to help make a fundraising event more profitable. Here’s how to develop messaging, programming and solicitation that leverage the whys.
Doing business in an unfamiliar destination comes with specific challenges. A Destination Management Company (DMC) brings local expertise, local knowledge and a set of local resources that can make or break
your destination-specific event.
Sponsors are a critical revenue stream for fundraising events. However, not every organization knows how to approach sponsors and or whom to task with the job. Members of your community who already know and support your mission are the best advocates for bringing in sponsorship revenue. Here’s how to help them help you.
Less structured than a typical breakout session, campfires
are designed to allow attendees to easily drop in or out as their schedule and interest level permit.
Logistical challenges, miscommunications and last-minute surprises at events can fluster or agitate performers. Communicating clearly with entertainers prior to an event is often overlooked.
Take a closer look at event entertainment and how you can make sure you choose the best type of entertainment for your events.
For a number of years, I’ve been giving a presentation at industry conferences on Disruptions Facing the Events Industry. Of all the various potential disruptions – economic, political, technological, social, etc. – guns and shootings…
“I see people at our conferences stand up and take pictures of slides with their phones. I want to know which slides they are. For all of our sessions.” I was sitting with a new client, the chief marketing officer of…
The question and answer portion of a presentation or panel discussion is hold-your-breath time for event organizers, as it can go one of two ways…
You’re standing on the stage in the middle of your major fundraising gala, surveying the room. The main honoree is about to speak, and all eyes are riveted on…
Do you get your entire team together in one place to brainstorm big ideas for your event or company? Howard Givner explores universally accepted rules of brainstorming that may have you checking your assumptions.
Every so often a live televised event has a production screw up so flagrant it becomes Exhibit A when telling skeptical bosses or clients, “See?…
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