Merry Christmas from My Family to Yours!
I have a love-hate relationship with this time of year. As a mom I love the excitement it brings to my household - the homemade gifts that my children carefully [...]
Continuing Education, is it worth it?
As event planners, we carefully plan, budget, and execute meetings and events in an industry that is forever evolving – our venues, the conference styles and themes, the audio/visual equipment [...]
Let’s Be Merry!
It is that time of year again…time for the much anticipated (or dreaded) holiday office party. Having experienced a few holiday party flops, I thought I should blog on how [...]
Virtual Teamwork.
How Instant Messaging helps with Communication and Collaboration in our Virtual Workplace. As an event-planning firm we only succeed if we foster good communication at our conferences and events. We [...]
Our New Tool: A Twitter Wall
Meetings Northwest just finished coordinating the 2014 National Rural ITS Conference in Branson, MO. Between break-out sessions, keynote speakers and a little zip-lining, we decided to fully incorporate Twitter at [...]
Conference Planning Basics – Location, Location, Location
I’m a basics kind of person….or so I like to think. The basics - you are what you eat, you think what you read/watch. Life is simple, right? Wrong. But [...]
My Quest for a Small Business Social Media Plan, Part 4 (Final)
Be Consistent, so be REAListic. So last time we came up with how to find ideas to write and post about; you may have already started posting, which is excellent! [...]
My Quest for a Small Business Social Media Plan, Part 3
Write or post something relevant. So you know where to find your audience, now how to connect with them through relevant posts. This is the hard one. What if you [...]
My Quest for a Small Business Social Media Plan; Part 2
Understand your audience and define mediums they use. You have defined your social media goals – now how to execute them . . . The next step is understanding your [...]
My Quest for a Small Business Social Media Plan
I am on a mission to devise a social media plan for Meetings Northwest, LLC. In the beginning I understood that we needed one, but I had no idea how [...]
