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Five Qualities of an Exceptional Event Project Manager

Velvet Chainsaw

Images Our last post, Key Vendor Service-Level Expectations , explored how the events industry is managing through a significant loss of experienced talent. In the fast-paced world of event planning, strong project management from your key vendors is essential for success. Photo Credit: Zuko.io

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Becoming Excellent at Post-Event Follow-Up: 5 Tested Tips

NXUnite

It can take six months or longer to plan a nonprofit event and market it effectively. Then, the event itself requires careful management and will inevitably face a few challenges. Follow-up is an indispensable aspect of donor engagement for solidifying supporter relationships after they’ve attended an event.

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Surf Lessons Applied to Event Planning

Smooth The Path

There are a series of little steps to learn for any given task, project, or skill to master. The post Surf Lessons Applied to Event Planning appeared first on Smooth The Path. Time after time, I felt the thrill of the wave catching the board and rapidly propelling me along. Related: Evolving associations, evolving skills.

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Association Brain Food: 2.2.24

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Early-career microcredentials. The truth is, these events don’t always fulfill their purpose. If you have a free webinar or event coming up, please send me the link by Wednesday afternoon the week before it’s scheduled. Member connections.

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Event-Planning Reminders From “Christmas Vacation”

Associations Now

Event- and conference-related takeaways from the holiday comedy classic National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and its lead character, Clark Griswold. And, as I was watching Christmas Vacation last weekend, I couldn’t help but notice the film has a lot of good takeaways related to conferences and events. View post on imgur.com.

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Thursday Buzz: Event Planning for a Million People

Associations Now

Take a look at the tremendous effort it takes to produce a world-famous event. How do you begin to plan an event that 1 million people will attend? “Sure, there are some slower times, but there is never a time that you are not planning,” he says. Planning an event of this size is not for the faint of heart.

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2: Strategic Planning v. Strategic Thinking

Spark Consulting

In other words, do 100% the opposite of what we usually do in strategic planning. But every once in a while, I have an organizational strategy project. The post 2: Strategic Planning v. Now, I mostly do *membership* strategy for clients. If we’re willing to change “the way we’ve always done it.”