Live event blogging is considered one of the best techniques for engaging online audiences and creating interest within an event among the online community. If you’re hosting an event in the coming months, you may be considering an event blogging strategy to market your organization and its keynote speakers.

Event planning organizers must ensure that they plan for possible emergency scenarios when coordinating their event processes. By taking a proactive approach to event emergency management, the potential hazards of the emergency can be mitigated, and a successful event can be achieved despite the unplanned issues.

A well-designed event website is paramount to offering the most value for your attendees. Not only does it offer all the information the audience requires, it also provides an engaging user experience that drives prospective attendees to register.

There are several ways this can be accomplished. The website can highlight a professional speaker at the event with their incentives like a meet and greet or a book signing, or it can show a video from a previous event. While many event organizers are great at preparing for and running an event, they often have limited experience in the website design process.

As an event planner, your ability to effectively plan and prepare for an event is one of the reasons why they are successful. For months, you’ve been working through the details of getting people registered, acquiring exhibitors and sponsors, managing attendees’ dietary restrictions, and a whole lot more.

As your event draws nearer each day, and as more people get involved, it’s your responsibility to communicate your plan to your speaker, to your staff, and to your attendees in a way that makes your event go off without a hitch.

You’ve booked your keynote speaker, and your event is coming up. You’re beginning to schedule your speaker’s travel plans, and you’re curious about whether or not they will make a short layover. What do you do?

No matter how many years a public lecture series has been active, there comes a time when the same guest speakers talking about the same topics grow a little stale. It’s not that the messages don’t have merit or the speakers have suddenly lost their ability to captivate an audience. Sometimes, decision makers just have to sit back and take a “big picture” look at the effectiveness of a public lecture series without bias, and then make any changes that are necessary to keep it fresh and exciting for the people in attendance.

Out with the old, and in with the new. It’s a brave new year for all of us, and it’s important that we start as we mean to finish. Start this first quarter strong with a professional speaker to motivate you and your employees and remind them of what success really means.

Online personas like bloggers, Twitter users and even specialized digital journalists have succeeded at building an audience and credibility completely within the digital realm, which gives them a level of influence on a variety of topics - influence that some would consider even greater than mass media. And while having the right industry or niche influencers at your event will inevitably get you some good attention and word-of-mouth marketing, how do you go about getting the attention of these key influencers?

When planning a major event, making decisions based on the potential return on investment is a critical part of the process. Anybody who works in this industry knows a conference operates just like any business, especially large-scale events with substantial budgets, thousands of attendees, and many key stakeholders. Here are a few ways you can achieve a high ROI from your next event.

You've done all the planning and preparation. The speakers are booked - and they're incredible. The event is sold out. Everyone is buzzing with anticipation...so what do you do to keep your attendees engaged?