Tag: Event Management
One year on and still Communicating, Educating, Motivating and Celebrating!
Grapevine Events is pleased to celebrate its 1st birthday and the launch of its brand new website. The new website marks the anniversary of a rollercoaster year for Grapevine Events as they encountered their first year in business during an extremely hostile and unstable economic environment. Established in May 2011, Grapevine Events is a [...]
Three tech-steps to success this Spring event season
We’re in the midst of the Spring event season, and for events company staff it’s all hands on deck. I remember what it was like from my years working for various event organisers – too much to do, not enough time, the sales team bugging you for more leads, and the event director questioning the [...]
Event management Students Raise £2,000 For Local Charity
University of Ulster students have put their event management skills to good use and raised £2,000 for a local charity. The International Hospitality Management BSc students – based at the Ulster Business School, Belfast campus – planned, organised and staged an event of their choice to raise money for Downtown Radio and Cool FM’s Cash [...]
Event Management Students Use Crowdfunding To Launch Interactive Visual & Performance Arts vent
Studying at The Arts University College at Bournemouth, the Offthewall team describe themselves as having a passion for taking art out of the traditional white gallery format and placing it in more exciting and thought provoking places, making it more accesable for all. As a team their main value is encouraging the appreciation for the [...]
Event Management Students Graduate With European Event Portfolio
The first students to graduate in Event Management at the University of Hertfordshire are spending their final few months helping deliver ‘Europe Week’ – a five day event which will see over 11 European countries involved in activities and lectures at the University. For the first time, Europe Week which is now in its eighth [...]
Leeds Event Management Student Scoops Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO) Student Award
Annie Metcalfe, a 22-year-old third year student of Events Management at the University, was revealed as a prize winner at ABPCO’s first ever awards ceremony at part of its 25th Anniversary gala dinner. Annie’s award recognised her innovative and best-practice approach to her work placement year at Twickenham Rugby Stadium last year, where she impressed [...]
Dungannon Event Manager Scoops Award
An Events Manager from Dungannon has helped her public relations firm scoop a top award for organising a glittering event to honour unsung heroes from across Northern Ireland. Sarah Weir, originally from Moy, picked up the gold PRide award for Best Event at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Awards on behalf of the company [...]
Smart Badges from Group Dynamics: a unique contactless attendance management system
Group Dynamics, Europe’s most innovative interactive voting system manufacturer, unveils a pioneering contactless interactive attendance management system. The correct identification of delegates is a vital part of any event. While many events still use simple cardboard badges showing only basic information on them, Smart Badges from Group Dynamics give Event Organisers a new dimension, allowing [...]
Event Management and the Cloud
This article looks at event management and the cloud and highlights two popular event software solutions that can be deployed via the cloud. Cloud computing is the delivery of shared resources, software and information over the Internet. It is a relatively new delivery model for IT services and provides users with a completely different way [...]
How Self Service Portals Can Add Value to Events
Improving your levels of efficiency and increasing the value of your events are two key drivers that help distinguish a successful events company from one that might be struggling in our current economic climate. Whether you’re a company specialising in events only, or whether your business happens to hold regular internal and external events, you [...]
Top tips for booking your Christmas entertainment
If you are amongst the thousands of Christmas party organisers who still have to book their entertainment, then you might want to check out these top ten tips!…… Tip 1 – Just because it’s Christmas, doesn’t mean you have to act like ‘Scrooge’. Don’t underestimate how much you should set aside for the entertainment, as [...]
Amber and Green Saves Historic Kiln
Leading live events, project management and design consultancy, Amber and Green, has purchased an historic building, saving it for future generations. The Kiln in in Tongham, nr Farnham in Surrey, had been in a considerable state of disrepair for many years, until Amber and Green invested a six-figure sum in sympathetically converting it into a [...]
Sellafield Ltd appoint Glasgows for 3 year events contract
Glasgows Event Management has secured a three year contract with Sellafield Ltd to deliver events for their project management staff across sites in Cumbria and Cheshire. Sellafield Ltd is the company responsible for safely delivering decommissioning, reprocessing, nuclear waste management and fuel manufacturing activities on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The company operates from [...]
71 Degrees North for Mountain Leap
Specialist event management company Mountain Leap has seen a sudden surge in enquires for its corporate ski packages following the start of ITV’s adventure show ‘71 Degrees North’. An adrenaline-fuelled mix of mountain based experiences and terrifying situations, the eight-part series, now in its second season, is set in the snowy glaciers of Scandinavia. The [...]
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