While you are visiting, you can explore close-by areas such as the Atlanta Beltline, Cabbage Town, and the Krog Street Tunnel to view some of the amazing art and murals that our City is known for.   Check out this post by Chris Watkins to find out where to go and what to see.   The post Atlanta Street Art appeared first on Loudermilk Conference Center ..read more

While you are visiting, you can explore close-by areas such as the Atlanta Beltline, Cabbage Town, and the Krog Street Tunnel to view some of the amazing art and murals that our City is known for.   Check out this post by Chris Watkins to find out where to go and what to see.   The post Atlanta Street Art appeared first on Loudermilk Conference Center ..read more

We know that planning and managing conferences is not as easy as it seems. Thankfully, there are terrific tools available that can help conference organizers and event planners take the attendee experience to the next level. Our staff picked our top five “cool tools” that will help you plan and run killer conferences. Trello: Trello is the business version of Pinterest. It lets you organize all your project notes, to-do lists and documents by creating and adding cards. Everyone can see the progression of the work and easily see what needs to be completed. Trello is free for an individual plan ..read more

We have written before about the importance of having a separate website for your conference. This is especially important when your conference has multiple speakers and sponsors and you want to promote it to get a good attendance. When marketing a conference, a separate website allows people to easily link to the conference site without getting confused. It is just too easy for important conference content to get lost when it lives with everything else on your own business site. Once you have a website for your annual conference, the next problem that I see organizers make is to overwrite tha ..read more

If you want your event to stand out from the crowd and position your organization as an authority in your field, your event needs to reflect a high level of professionalism. You need to know how to successfully market your event. Having a recognizable branded identity will help your event attract people in your target market. It also encourages people to share your event with others. Communicating with your audience early and often leading up to the event, will give you a better turnout since your event will be top of mind for your attendees. Hosting a large conference gives your organizatio ..read more

When organizations host an event such as a conference or workshop, there is a lot at stake. A successful event can: give your organization an opportunity to stand out from the competition position your organization as an industry authority expose your company to more opportunities for the creation of content that can be shared in newsletters and on social media. forge partnership with sponsors that benefit your company apart from the event give your prospects a chance to discover more about your perspective and dedication build trust and relationships that will help seal future deals. To acc ..read more

Using WordPress for your conference website makes sense for a many reasons. WordPress.org is free. You have to have your own hosting and domain name but the self-hosted version of WordPress has a plethora of options for event management. Over 26% of websites in the world are created with WordPress which means that your team may already be familiar with updating websites built on this platform. It’s particularly easy for your team to update the site with post, page, speakers, attendee and sponsor information as it comes in. You can create blog posts to publicize news of your eve ..read more

Just as event planners were starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel for resuming meetings, conferences, and other events, the Omicron variant showed up, along with another round of uncertainty and doubt as to what that might mean for upcoming meeting plans. However, there is good news! According to a recent survey by Northstar Meetings Group, this new strain of Covid-19 has not had the same impact on event planners and their meetings as the arrival of the Delta variant caused. Both Northstar’s Pulse Survey and surveys by hospitality data-insights company, Knowland, report that schedul ..read more

We know that planning and managing conferences is not as easy as it seems. Thankfully, there are terrific tools available that can help conference organizers and event planners take the attendee experience to the next level. Our staff picked our top five “cool tools” that will help you plan and run killer conferences. Trello: Trello is the business version of Pinterest. It lets you organize all your project notes, to-do lists and documents by creating and adding cards. Everyone can see the progression of the work and easily see what needs to be completed. Trello is free for an individual plan ..read more

We have written before about the importance of having a separate website for your conference. This is especially important when your conference has multiple speakers and sponsors and you want to promote it to get a good attendance. When marketing a conference, a separate website allows people to easily link to the conference site without getting confused. It is just too easy for important conference content to get lost when it lives with everything else on your own business site. Once you have a website for your annual conference, the next problem that I see organizers make is to overwrite tha ..read more