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There is no doubt that COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the events industry, and there is a lot of anxiety surrounding what the future looks like. Yes, this is unfortunate. Thousands of large international and local events have been cancelled or postponed, but is there an opportunity...

Volunteer management has really stepped up in the last decade. While there was once a time when event planners could address volunteers as an afterthought, today volunteer staff members fulfill a large portion of duties once covered by paid workers. So planning a volunteer management program that...

Planning and hosting an event requires a lot of hard work and dedication. Hence, it is very important to gauge the success of your event to understand what went right and what can be improved in future events. According to research, about 91% of times, businesses measure the success of their...

You've planned your festival to the last detail: every seat's arranged, every ticket booked, each artist knows their start time and every goody bag is filled, tissue paper-fluffed and labeled. And your volunteers are signed in, assigned and accounted for.

Maybe your boss comes from a different generation. There's nothing wrong with that, he or she just has certain ideas about how things are done based on what has been working for years. But life (and event planning) is different today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. It's different than it was one...