Esprit Productions Launches Its Monthly eNewsletter
We at Esprit Productions are thrilled to announce “Production Notes,” our brand new eNewsletter. Every month, you’ll get helpful tips and advice derived from what we’ve learned over twenty years in the event production and meeting planning business. Our eNewsletter allows us to dig a little deeper and spend more time discussing what you can do to make your event more memorable. Whether its... Read More »
“I Love Tech Flow” Event Production Tool to Make Planning Your Meeting Easier
Meeting production is getting bigger and more complicated. PowerPoint presentations have accompanying videos, live internet feeds many times with special music and lighting and all of this varies from speaker to speaker. And this doesn’t even take into account the transitions in between each speaker which should be intuitive and look seamless to the meeting attendees. Typically, with minimal rehearsal... Read More »
Supercharge Your Event Playlists
One of my favorite things to do when I am producing a corporate meeting is to put together the walk-in and walk-out playlists for the event. Throughout a meeting it is not uncommon for audience members to stop by the tech table and ask about certain songs or to look at the playlist in my iPod. In the coming months, our e-newsletters will feature a playlist from a recent meeting for your use or as a... Read More »
Create a YouTube Channel for Your Event
YouTube. You know about it. Everyone knows about it. Everyone has used it at one point to enjoy videos from various arenas: music, comedy, movie trailers, and a baby getting scared when his mother blows her nose. However, did you know that YouTube is the second largest Internet search engine? So, this means that YouTube is the perfect place for you to market your event. Many companies have created... Read More »
I’m Just Another Soldier
On Thursday, December 15, 2011, the Iraq War officially ended. I have spent some time in the past few weeks reflecting on the early days of the war and the story of Jessica Lynch. As you probably remember, Jessica Lynch was a Private First Class in the United States Army in Iraq at the beginning of the war. On March 23, 2003, the convoy in which PFC Lynch was riding was ambushed. Her Humvee was hit... Read More »
Bringing Out the Emotion in Your Meeting
Recently, Siemens North America’s Drive Technology Business Unit held their annual management meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to inform and drive business results for 2012. A teambuilding organization called Afterburner conducted presentations during the meeting’s first day. Afterburner was founded by a former Air Force fighter pilot who realized that the tools he learned in military aviation... Read More »
Making Things Happen in Unique Settings
In this blog, there has been quite a bit of discussion about the best way to set up a ballroom for an event and how to best engage your audience in a cavernous, yet traditional space. It’s always exciting (and challenging) for those of us in the field of event production when we have a setting outside of a hotel ballroom or convention center to transform into something else entirely. A while back,... Read More »
Promote Your Event on Lanyrd
In this high tech society we live in, it seems our planet is getting smaller. We have more ways to connect to each other — and market to each other — but sometimes it just feels like we are in one big crowded room. How do you make your company or event stand out? One of the greatest benefits of social media is the ability to get recommendations and ideas from people you know and trust. Whether... Read More »
Keep It Short
There are many great tips for public speaking. Coaches advise people to speak clearly, loudly, and with conviction. They remind their clients to maintain eye contact with the audience and to never use notes. But no greater advice you can give about public speaking than this: Keep. It. Short. Brevity is not easy. It requires writing, editing, reading aloud, editing some more. The investment of time... Read More »
Event Management Tip – The Benefit of PreSurveys
At the end of most conferences, attendees will get a survey to complete. Companies want to know what attendees thought of the meeting venue, the speakers, the subject matter… you name it! And that’s great! Companies can learn a lot from these surveys about what they did well and where there is room for improvement. But think about how much greater your success will be if you ask them all these... Read More »
