By Cyrena Hillyard We’ve all been impacted by this past year in many ways, big and small, and our job responsibilities have definitely felt that impact. Whether you’re at a non-profit, event production company, or anywhere really, the pandemic has changed how business is done and by whom. Like many……
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…
By Cheryl Stern (with an assist from Joann Collins) Continuing our Collaboration Drives Innovation series and our goal to provide real, practical help to organizations navigating the non-profit and events spaces amidst this global crisis, Brand Manager Cheryl Stern talks out our approach to managing communication. Previously we’ve tackled…
Our Collaboration Drives Innovation series aims to provide help and advice specific to this unique moment in time. So far we’ve tackled working from home and participant coaching. This week, Account Director Janelle Benuska, shares what she has learned about rescheduling and reinventing events. “Plans are of little…
Our Collaboration Drives Innovation series aims to provide help and advice specific to this unique moment in time. Last week we talked about working from home, collecting input from several teammates in a variety of roles here at Event 360. This week, our Director of Local Operations, Molly Fast,…
Just like you, our Event 360 team is made up of people of action. During this time of uncertainty and change, our team has been discussing how to find a way to offer support to others in our industry, including our clients in the non-profit space. What does this mean……
Name: Jonathan “JAM” Madrigal Position: Event Production Manager – MuckFest/Muck FOR GOOD Start Year: Officially, I think it would be 2011 but I took a break from 2014 to 2015, then came back in 2016. How did your life path bring you to Event 360?… Read…
By David Kramer & Kari Johnson Throughout the year, we’ll be presenting our top ten tips for improving event production. We first visited this topic in 2012, but we have learned so much since then that we have even more to say. The first tip we… Read More
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: time for the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference! This ain’t our first rodeo: Every February, we pack our bags, and this year, we are breaking out our cowboy boots because we’re fixin’ to giddy on up to Austin, Texas!… Read More
We posed a question to our staff and the event industry at large via Facebook. The question was, “What is the best lesson you have learned from working events?” The answers were so compelling that we just had to share! No matter what your past experience… Read More
By Rene Tamayo Last month, our event team completed the final Susan G. Komen 3-Day of the 2019 season. As always at the end of an event season, it provides a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished and evaluate what contributed to the success… Read More
By Joann Collins Most non-profits don’t have the budget for a professional speechwriter or a corporate speaking coach. But what tactics can you take from those professionals to use as you are drafting speeches for your executives, representatives and participants? Most events begin with a welcome or opening ceremony of……
By Rene Tamayo Weather, whether good or bad, plays a major role in determining how successful your event will be. When weather is perfect, it almost seems like nothing can go wrong —everything falls into place and we can focus on giving participants a wonderful time doing good for their……
By Gayla Cruikshank My husband and I just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary and we are empty nesters. I selfishly wanted to find a way to volunteer that wouldn’t take too much time away from home, since we love enjoying quiet time on our back porch with dinner and wine.…
By Molly Fast I’ve been fortunate enough to work with non-profit organizations for nearly my entire career (that blip doing high-tech PR right as the dot com industry was plummeting barely counts). I’m equally as fortunate to have been able to put roots down at Event… Read More
This past weekend, a large contingency of our Event 360 staff found ourselves in Michigan to produce the first event of the 2019 Susan G. Komen 3-Day season. We have been working behind the scenes for the past 12 months, and despite the long hours and sweaty weather, it was……
By Jake Geiger Over the years, we’ve dealt with a plethora of special circumstances on event. This past year was no exception. We added some new ones to the archive and were also visited by some old friends, the uninvited kind. Here is one of our favorites from 2018. I……
By Molly Fast Welcome back! A couple weeks ago I kicked off this two-part blog post sharing about my fundraising success with Cycle for Survival. In the first blog post I shared that I’ve raised nearly $150,000 in the past six years for rare… Read More
By Molly Fast For the past six years, I’ve participated in Cycle for Survival, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s wildly successful and popular indoor cycle event that raises money for rare cancer research. (Side note: it was also selected as the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum’s Program of the… Read…
Zip ties found in our junk drawers. Creating a run of show for mundane daily…
Like so many event professionals, I have spent less time flying in the past year…
By Joann Buckley Collins
As someone with Irish ancestors on both sides (plus among my…
At last week’s P2P Conference, I spoke with great enthusiasm about the Return to Live…
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