It could happen to any of us. You’re planning an event (a BIG event that your bosses will love you for and that will leave attendees wanting more). The details of the event are all set (location – check, dates – check, sponsors – check). And then there’s social media… How do most events (particularly big conferences, expos and festivals) [...]

The Fall event season (busiest event season of the year!) is well under way! With Summer behind us, we can now focus our attention and efforts on the insanity of three months of conferences, festivals, entertainment events AND a presidential election (losing my breath just thinking about it all). We know you can’t me multiple places at once (though we [...]

Launched at the 2012 Launch Conference in San Francisco last week, HADZA (a crowdsourcing video app) has its eye on the events industry. Developed by a Chili, Hazda makes posting and discovering video from an event easier and visually appealing. Allowing event attendees to build a communal video space is something that is in great demand at events today.  HADZA [...]

It’s that time of the year again! Like a hawk swooping down on its prey, Social Media Week (a week long series of events on social media) takes over event space, schedules and business discussions in cities across the globe this week including: Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington DC. [...]

  VH1 has stepped up to the social cause plate and hit the ball out of the park with their upcoming Do Something Awards show (produced by the nonprofit organization for young people DoSomething.org) airing tonight on VH1 (9/8C) with Glee‘s Jane Lynch as host (brilliant).  The tagline of the show says it all:  “Saving the world one award show [...]

How can you not love the idea of an entire conference dedicated to failing?  If you’re an entrepreneur, you might even be salivating.  As its Event Organizers describe it, FailCon France 2011 (@FailCon) is …a one-day conference for technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success.” Held at Microsoft in Paris, [...]

Mark Zuckerberg was only 19 years old when he launched Facebook.  While this certainly makes him exceptional (in light of the almost complete world domination of Facebook and it’s billion-dollar valuation), teens launching tech startups is becoming commonplace.  A new generation of kids, emboldened by an economy desperate for innovation in order to rebound and enabled by technology that has [...]

Rev up your engines.  GEICO, one of the top auto insurance companies in the country, (@geico) has officially signed on as lead sponsor for the 71st Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (@sturgisrally). Sturgis (convening August 8-14 on Sturgis, S.D., this year) is an event like no other. As one of the largest motorcycle events in the world, Sturgis 2011 is expected [...]