Change is in the air: Is it time to spice up your Annual Meeting?
Ahhh, change is in the air! The kids are back in school (mine are anyway), the air has that distinctive crisp, chilly fall smell, the leaves are changing colors, [...]
Associations: How to Stay Relevant to your Members
Professional associations exist for one main reason --- to advance their specific profession. In order to continue advancing a profession, the organization must stay relevant. How does an organization [...]
Print is …
Do you like printed materials? I may be old fashioned, but I love printed materials. I honestly never thought I would read a book on a digital device until [...]
Attendee tracking: Is anything private anymore?
I began thinking about attendee privacy issues when I started planning a family trip to Florida. My kids are 7 and 8, so of course we will be visiting Disney [...]
Can you go paperless with Yapp?
The 2016 ITS Heartland Annual Meeting was a success. The 2 ½ day event featured 34 exhibitors, over 200 attendees, many well-received presentations, a pizza party networking event and the [...]
Event Branding – the NEW standard
Are you branding your events? Technical symposiums, fundraising and awareness events, openings, galas, parties, even weddings are all being branded these days. Gone are the basic, often boring, ever [...]
Is a paperless event really possible?
Events generate a lot of paper. A LOT. Agendas, presentations, notes, surveys, receipts, tickets, banquet event orders, invoices, attendee lists, certificates, flyers, postcards, nametags, announcements, registrations, memos, newsletters, [...]
Whova. an Attendee Engagement and Networking App
This past year I was given the task of finding an event app for the 2015 National Rural ITS (NRITS) conference. The ideal app would increase our attendee’s engagement and [...]
