When our teammates aren’t producing an incredible event for our clients, they are offering advice and insights. Read some of their posts below to get a glimpse of the great minds we have on our team.
Happy birthday, mighty Event 360! As we approach our 18th birthday on November 27th, we’re excited to take a moment and reflect on this special place that so many have called “home” since its founding in 2002. Not many small businesses reach the “old enough to vote” milestone, and our……
2020 has been a YEAR. In the midst of a global pandemic, an election, murder hornets, and more, a bright spot for our team has been the arrival of two tiny new members of the Event 360 family. As new parents to our first kids, we have bonded over…
Friday, October 16 was a big day for our team. It marked our return to putting on live, in-person events. What was only an idea 90 days ago became a real thing. By 7pm that Friday, the inaugural 5x5K FOR GOOD Denver was all built and ready to welcome…
The current state of the world has turned so many aspects of events on their head. We’ve all been challenged. We’ve been forced to cancel or postpone or virtualize (that’s a word now, right?) events. We’ve had to pivot and figure out how to safely do the work we all……
We are thrilled to share that we are one week away from event day. Event day. EVENT DAY. Something we were not sure would ever get to happen in 2020. Our hearts and minds are racing with the adrenaline that only a live, in-person event can bring. In this…
Earlier this year, we shared a blog post as part of our Collaboration Drives Innovation series that touched on engaging digital experiences. This week, we had the opportunity to dive deeper on that topic with our partners at Susan G. Komen® and our friends at the Peer… Read…
By Molly Fast It’s no secret that fundraising in light of COVID-19 is significantly challenging. We’ve all seen the devastation this pandemic has caused to the event fundraising space. During the early months – March and April – no one really knew how long we were going to be in……
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” The P2P fundraising event industry is going through a time of uncertainty like never before. With mass gatherings halted in markets large and small, non-profits are scrambling to postpone, cancel, or virtualize their runs, walks, rides, and…
By Molly Fast I’ve been fortunate enough to work and grow up in the events business for nearly two decades. I have witnessed some of the most touching, heart-wrenching, emotional moments while working on the events we produce at Event 360. And as a participant in and board member of……
By Jane Kramer Straight from the desk of one of our IT pros (and including some crowdsourced favs from colleagues), enjoy seven tips to make your work and home life more manageable. Use a password manager app. There are many apps available to help you keep your passwords safe,…
by Joann Buckley Collins Music can make the mood. It can make you smile. It can make you cry. It can make drive you to dance or leap with joy. While we aren’t gathering in crowds these days, music can still bring the spirit of your event to life, whether……
By Jen Hagan While it may be daunting to think of developing a volunteer program for the younger generation with as much as they have going on these days, it is a great way for them to learn and experience being a part of giving back. Volunteering is an opportunity……
Part 2: Accounting By Matt Tremback Pivoting an event date to a later day, month, or year will have some costs associated to it. But hopefully you can turn money paid to vendors and jurisdictions into credits or refunds, as opposed to them becoming sunk costs. Know where your money……
Part 1: Legal by Irina Gelfand In the face of a global pandemic, your company’s or event’s operations will shift a little, right? Right. COVID-19 hit, and the world shifted for everyone. Restaurants had to rethink capacity, operations, curbside pick-up, outdoor areas and seating arrangements. CDC guidance mandated 6 feet……
by Joann Buckley Collins If a picture is worth a thousand words, then surely an infographic is worth ten times that. We’ve distilled some of our blog posts into easy-to-read, single-page graphics that get the point across quickly. Check out some of our most popular: 10 Lessons… Read…
By Patrick Riley Obviously, the world has changed significantly since March as we adjust to living in the age of Covid-19. We’ve all learned so many things that it feels difficult to pick only three. But here they are: Plans change. Plans may change again. It’s ok to throw out……
by Jillian Schranz As we wrap up our Collaboration Drives Innovation blog series, we reflect on the 2020 peer-to-peer fundraising events season that could have been, and the reality of the year we got instead. What is usually a bustling, productive spring packed with fundraising events became the season of……
By Molly Fast Continuing our Collaboration Drives Innovation series, which looks at ways we can reinvent what we do in light of the current climate, we took a look at how we are working to create engaging digital experiences. In particular, today we’re examining our efforts to bring the…
By Slade Thompson Spring and Summer 2020 have brought a plethora of difficult decisions to the desks of event planners around the world. Should we postpone? Should we cancel? Should we do a virtual event? You probably have tackled many of those questions already. But maybe you have not had……
As we live through a paradigm shift confronting racism, inequities, and a global pandemic, we’re still in the midst of an economic crisis of staggering proportions. Many industries have been decimated. Perhaps the hardest hit has been the event industry. As we enter the summer of 2020, our world looks a……
Happy birthday, mighty Event 360! As we approach our 18th birthday on November 27th, we’re…
2020 has been a YEAR. In the midst of a global pandemic, an election,
Friday, October 16 was a big day for our team. It marked our return to…
The current state of the world has turned so many aspects of events on their…
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