April Showers brings Orvis Fly Fishing Festivals
It’s that time of year to start preparing for summer outdoor sports! Meetings Northwest has been busy teaming up with Orvis to bring you another Orvis Guide [...]
5 Tips on How to Squeeze More from a Tight Event Budget
I recently found myself at a hotel bar having a very frank conversation with a colleague that is an association event planner. She has recently been tasked to take over [...]
The best is yet to come
In the last year, Meetings Northwest has worked with two dynamic entities to continue the success of their annual/biennial events. Our first, a support institution to Montana Manufacturers, Montana [...]
Flies at Dinner
Everyone has those stories of events or projects, big or small, professional or personal, which just don’t quite live up to expectation. Overall, someone from the outside, like [...]
2017 Forbes No. 5 Most Stressful Job – Event Coordinating – It’s Not All Peaches and Cream
When people ask me what I do and I answer event coordinating; I always get the response, "I bet that is fun!" You can just see the visions in their [...]
Paperless Event? Yes, We did it!
Just two years ago, I started a conversation with one of our traffic engineering groups about doing a paperless annual meeting. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it [...]
SPREAD LOVE – 17th Annual Bike for Shelter
In January, I strapped on my hypothetical bike helmet for the fourth year to join a committee of other volunteers and shelter staff in putting together Watson Children’s Shelter [...]
This is “Right” – right now.
I look around my luxury home office (aka my messy paper covered nook in the kitchen that drives my husband crazy) with Christmas cards in a pile on one side [...]
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 [...]
