Booking Your Next Event in America’s Heartland?
Meetings Northwest is fresh off a successful ITS Heartland Annual Meeting. This year the Annual Meeting was held in La Vista, Nebraska near Omaha. This event attracts about 220 attendees [...]
Ride for the Kids! Watson Children’s Shelter, 15th Annual Bike for Shelter
As I finish up the final touches on some event materials for Watson Children’s Shelter’s 15th Annual Bike for Shelter (May 30th), my mind wanders to the [...]
Travel Smart
Women business travelers now constitute nearly fifty percent of all business travel in the United States, spending $175 Billion on 14 million trips annually. Working in the event planning arena [...]
Top 10 Items Every Event Planner Should Bring to an Event
I love Top 10 Lists or Top Whatever Lists. While standing in line at the grocery store, I usually cannot help myself from perusing Us Magazine’s 25 Things You Didn’t [...]
The Chateau on the Lake – An Unprecedented Event Planning Experience in Branson, Missouri
In 15+ years of event planning, I’ve experienced many onsite challenges. There is the frequent (albeit frustrating problem) of late coffee/break food delivery; and the ever present risk of poor [...]
Click Me! Open Me! Read Me!
The much anticipated competition soon to play out in Super Bowl XLIX pales in comparison to the fierce competition that plays out every day in your inbox! I know I [...]
Sponsors, Big & Small – Thank You!
At every event we attend, whether it is a fundraiser or a conference, we experience the effects of sponsorship. A logo firmly displayed at the finish line, a thank you [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
