The Power of the Daily Ten Minutes
It is astounding what can happen if you do something for 10 minutes a day, every single day. Something that really matters to you. Something that is going to help you achieve your goals, change your...
View ArticleThe Peace in Silence
Earlier this fall I had the great pleasure of spending a week at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico. There, I spent an hour with other guests listening to Deborah Szekely, the founder of the Ranch,...
View ArticleCrosscut Courage Awards
My current guilty pleasure is watching HBO’s The Newsroom and now I find myself longing for the type of news organization dramatized on the show: One that is passionately principled, smart, current,...
View ArticleA Thanksgiving Tradition
The event professionals at CRG Events have a host of fantastic traditions they carry on over the winter holidays, and so I asked them to share. One of our newest employees, Michelle Stone, shared a...
View ArticleChanging jobs? Consider this.
The events industry is heating up, along with the overall economy. Companies are hiring, and event professionals are deciding to try something new. On a recent trip to Washington, DC I chatted with a...
View ArticleGreat stuff from PCMA 2014
I’m in Boston attending PCMA’s Convening Leaders conference. I think PCMA is the best national organization for meeting professionals, especially since they started including corporate planners as well...
View ArticleThe Next Big Thing
What’s the next big thing? Big Data. The power of Big Data is here, and pundits are calling it the biggest societal change since Gutenberg’s printing press because of its ability to completely and...
View ArticleBooking the band…or the jazz trio or pianist or DJ
Booking musical acts is part of an event planner’s job, and has always had an air of mystery around it – you need to get the right agent representing the right artists, and then the actual booking...
View ArticleAutumnal Gifts
Halloween is complicated for me. It’s a “holiday” that I don’t really love for itself, though I dearly love autumn and piles of pumpkins and golden days that are frequent enough to give me hope, and...
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I Want What She’s Having
You know that woman who works hard, plays hard, and looks 10 years younger than she really is? I am blessed to work with one of those people at CRG Events: Meghan Finley is one of the best in the...
View ArticleWhat do event attendees really want?
In short: Infrastructure: Excellent and invisible. Content: Compelling and interactive. Networking: Facilitated, intentional and meaningful. Excellent Event Infrastructure First and fundamentally,...
View ArticleAttendee Networking – How can we make it better?
Creating connections isn’t easy for everyone, so we event planners need to help make it happen. I have shared before some truths and tips about networking and it is something we will always explore,...
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The Mobile Office: So many options – share yours!
At CRG Events we frequently work with Microsoft on their events and so “mobile-first, cloud-first” is a refrain we hear often. Can I just say that I love this mobile-first, cloud-first world that we’re...
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The U.S. Open at Chambers Bay – an event planner’s perspective
Some people are saying that the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay is the biggest sporting event ever to come to the Pacific Northwest. Really? A 250-acre golf course scraped from the remains of a gravel pit in...
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Where do you love to work?
We recently shared how excited we are about Microsoft’s “mobile-first, cloud-first” vision. Their efforts help our team be productive and inspired by their surroundings around the globe. A great...
View ArticleWeirdly Perfect Portland
For years Portland has proclaimed its weirdness with great pride. But on the two days I’ve just spent here, I have found it to be practically perfect – possibly weirdly perfect. It all started with the...
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BizBash Event Style Awards – Best Conference!
We have had the exciting opportunity to partner with Microsoft and their awesome team for the last 10+ consecutive years on one of their largest conferences – Worldwide Partner Conference. And we just...
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