As my event supply closet series continues, I want to discuss the hidden costs of items. We all clearly see the initial item cost but can forget to calculate the maintenance.
The hardest part of maintaining an event supply closet is upkeep of the items. It is possible to create a one-time budget entry to purchase an item, but no event item has only a one-time cost. Continued use translates into repair costs for general wear and tear.
One of the challenges that event planners across campus have mentioned is not having ready access to event supplies. To complicate matters, many of us are limited by budgets and storage space. For my next miniseries, I’ll discuss décor ideas that bend to a variety of budgets.
The start of new semester continues to inspire my professional development side. While my last article focused on going back to school as an event planner, this article will focus on brushing up on all things Georgia Tech.
As an event planner, we often talk with a variety of different people as we plan events with diverse goals. Being familiar with the university will make us better ambassadors to our guests and provide us with more resources in our toolbox. If I was creating a required reading list at Georgia Tech, here's what I would have on it.
Throughout the course of this upcoming academic year, you will most likely plan a myriad of events for various target audiences, where Institute leaders will be invited. Even if you interact with the leaders on a regular basis, it's sometimes confusing to determine how you should refer to them in printed programs, on nametags, or within your seating charts. These questions and many others prompted Special Events & Protocol to develop a forms of address document that can be used as a point of reference for campus event planners.
Lower temperatures and longer lines in the Student Center can mean only one thing—the start of fall semester. Welcome back everyone! To kick off the new school year, I wanted to feature some on-campus resources for event planners to get some new skills this semester. Here are a few on-campus and low-cost ways to expand your event-planning skills.
We welcome you to read our top three blog posts from this past year and submit your ideas for future articles. We'll take a short hiatus, returning the week of August 20. Until then, have a wonderful rest of the summer.
While there is plenty of specialty software on the market for event planners, at Georgia Tech a lot of our work is done in Microsoft Excel. That does not have to be a bad thing, though. Excel can do amazing work for an event planner; you just have to know the tricks. One trick I have fallen in love with recently is Conditional Formatting.
Conditional Formatting allows you to highlight cells that follow a specific rule. The function can be found under Format in the menu bar or on the Home Ribbon.
We encourage all those who have event coordination responsibilities, or those who are interested in expanding their skills, to register for our upcoming workshop. However, we know that departments’ budgets may still be strained and professional development monies limited, prompting you to show a return on investment for your supervisor. Not to fear – once you provide your supervisor with the reasons you should attend outlined below, he or she will wonder why you didn’t ask to attend sooner.
From time to time, we'll highlight some of the new services or products provided by our approved caterers and vendors so everyone can partake in the experience. For our first post, we had the pleasure of joining our friends at Barrelhouse for a tasting of their new catering menu.
When planning and executing an event, it is easy to overlook some of the simpler items. In this post, I wanted to highlight a few simple actions that event planners should make a habit at all of their events but are easy to neglect.
