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Creating a community out of turmoil
“I remember this particular time when we newly arrived into the system… you know when you don’t have anything to do and you don’t know anyone or…
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With Conference Success Comes Burnout
From 2015 to 2019 Mark Scully’s Learn Inbound conferences have had continuous year on year growth. Before his conference, there were no world-class…
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On Finding the Words to Promote an Event
Logistics tend to take all the energy in event planning. Of course they are an important element, but not when they take all the focus. The copy you…
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The Ins & Outs of JS Conf EU’s Scholarship Programme
I recently had the pleasure of having a conversation with the organiser of the JSConf EU scholarship programme, Simone Haas . Along with some…
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How to Get Media Coverage For an Event
If you’re trying to get the word out, you need to drill into what the value of your event is. Especially if you’re going to be pitching to get media…
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My 8 Tips for Minimising Event Stress (from 10 Years’ Planning)
Maria, my lovely colleague, gave me the brief for this post as she thinks that I seem very calm when planning events , at least from the outside! On…
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Why You Should Add Delight As a Pillar of Your Event Journey
Every event has food at it. Be it a breakfast snack or a towering, shaky sandwich filled with expensive ingredients constructed to personify VC-funded…
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This Workshop Will Change Your (Event) Life
Last month we hosted a workshop called “Become a Tito Power User”. Vicky , our CX Lead, shared her expertise on all things Tito. This was a test event…
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We’d love to have you at our inaugural workshop!
We have a beautiful product that makes organising an event easy. We take a lot of pride in what we do because we care about giving organisers and…
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There are 3 Inspirational Women We Need to Tell You About
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people. – Diane Sawyer…
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Why WWDC Satellite Events Are Important for Apple and Its Fans
Every year Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC ) draws 5,000 (mainly) developers to California. It’s so popular that a ticket lottery has…
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Event Management Tools I Loved (and Hated) During Admission
I work at a company that likes to try new tools. Tools that promise to make your job easier. I’ve worked in the tech industry for well over a decade…
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Hiring a Speaker 101: How I Curated the Admission Line-Up
When Maria approached me about writing a post on how I secured the speakers for Admission I looked at her blanky, “There’s no way I can get 500 words…
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Why Admission Downsized (And Why It Was a Good Thing)
Over the past five years or so it’s felt like everything has to be quantifiable to live. If the numbers don’t make sense, then you kill it. If you…
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How to Find a Venue for An Event (Without Losing It Completely)
Paul (and even more so Doc) were especially keen to host our inaugural conference in Chicago. The central location of the city was definitely a draw,…
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The Story Behind Our Conference Design Principles and Practices
We host a community event series called Úr , which is an Irish word for “fresh”. It kicked off in spring 2018. From the design point of view the key…
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Why We’ve Decided to Host a Conference
I remember being with Jane Kwett , now with Patreon, several years ago in New York. I’d just started a new role in marketing (with a heavy emphasis on…
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Overheard at the World’s Most Disappointing Conference
– How was the conference? – Do you really want to know? – That bad, huh? – My cortisol levels peaked in the queue* to register, and don’t get me…
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Free vs Paid Events | Lessons from Learn Inbound
A lot of event organisers avoid hosting free events. They treat them like the plague. This quote from our interview with Mark Breen sums up how a lot…
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Artificial Intelligence and Events: Making 4 Publications Prosper
Experimentation keeps businesses alive, but flexibility lets them prosper. Many news organisations are embracing diversification to explore new…
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New Innovations for Presentations: Tips from Prezi
We’ve all sat through tedious presentations. You know the ones. With slides in font 8 squeezed in for dear life? Then there are the frightened,…
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From the Women of Tito, on International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day ! In an extra blog post this week, the three women of Tito wanted to share some reflections on their career…
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Innovative Ways to Run A Conference: 10 Years of Tips
John Davey, founder of Reasons To , shares his innovative event production tips. Conferences targeted at creative professionals is a very competitive…
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5 Terrific Tools That Will Help You Get GDPR Ready
You might find that you stumble at the first GDPR gate because you don’t know what to use to improve your processes. It can be daunting to balance new…
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Tito will be GDPR compliant by March
We got this. Relax in the knowledge that our lawyers are making sure that our processes are running to GDPR standards . The halcyon days of merely…
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Event Tech To Try For Your Next Conference
Alex Norman, founder of Tech Toronto, & Lynn Grogan, event producer for Clojure Conferences, share their thoughts. It’s tempting to avoid innovation…
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Tactics You Need To Use When Planning A Career Fair
Colleen Casey of Devex, a global development community, shares her tips. There is a lot of expectation from attendees when they sign up for a career…
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7 Ways to Bring Back to the Office What You’ve Learned at a Conference
Going to a conference is always exciting and inspiring. Speakers will share tons of ideas and attendees will often finish the day feeling ready to try…
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Niche Tech Events in Regional Areas Help Create Diverse Tech Clusters
Aaron Quint, pictured above, co-founder of Catskills Conf gives his insights Big city living is not for everyone. The rush, the noise, the lunch…
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Trans and Non-Binary Coding Events
An interview with Naomi Ceder, Trans*Code event co-organiser Naomi Ceder has been involved in the Python community for 16 years. Currently she serves…
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Is Your Event Safe?
Mark Breen, co-founder of Cuckoo Events & Safe Events, wants you to be honest with yourself about the safety of your attendees. The concepts of safety…
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Corporate Sponsorship For a Creative Event Can Work
A corporate sponsor’s relationship with a creative event can sometimes be akin to a bad, drunken one night stand. So much was promised, so many…
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How to Secure Event Sponsorship
Holger Blank of JSConf EU shares his sponsorship tips Holger Blank, pictured below, is the sponsorship maestro for JSConf EU, a not for profit…