By Carlee Mallard, on April 18th, 2011% Ironic to hold an event to raise money for disaster relief only to have the most epic outbreak of devastating tornados rip through downtown Raleigh, knocking over trees & power lines, demolishing entire buildings, throwing debris miles away, and cutting out electricity to thousands (including the venue we held the event), just an hour before the fundraiser was to begin.
Whenever I’m worried or scared, I always ask myself, “What’s the worst that could happen?” and I usually realize that it’s not that bad after all. “Everything will be fine.”
But what happens when the unthinkable happens? When something . . . → Read More: Disaster relief fundraiser complicated by tornado outbreak
By Carlee Mallard, on December 22nd, 2010% People across all sorts of industries are finding industry-specific events to be I got an email the other day from a friend of mine up in New York City who’s completely new to putting on events and is faced with the possibility of holding monthly events in NYC in her industry. Not only is she new to event planning, but she’s sort of scared of it. It’s totally new territory.
So she emailed me asking for some suggestions, a place to start, and some “event-y wisdom” as she put it.
Consider this an “annotated bibliography” of event planning resources . . . → Read More: Online (and offline) Event Planning Resources
By Carlee Mallard, on November 9th, 2010% Brazen Careerists’ newest product, Network Roulette officially launches today and you should be really excited about it (I am)! We all know that networking is important. Some of us may be better at networking than others, but Brazen has pretty much taken most of the hassle out of traditional networking by putting it all online.
What is Network Roulette?
Network Roulette is online speed networking that’s actually useful. It’s simple – first, you’re randomly matched with other professionals after answering two simple questions: “What are you looking for?” and “What are you providing?” Next, participants have up to 3 . . . → Read More: Network Roulette: Easy Networking Whenever & Wherever You Want
By Carlee Mallard, on September 29th, 2010% PechaKucha Night at ideaSPARK on September 16th, 2010 was by far the biggest and most seamless PKN to date. With 14 presenters—out of about 26
Me and Alex Gibson (our emcee) at the PKN after-party celebrating 1 year in Raleigh
submissions—and a packed room of about 200 attendees (out of the over 300 that registered), the fact that it’s popularity had seemed to doubled overnight was sort of obvious.
While I expected the PK night during SPARKcon to be a more popular event, I was completely unprepared for what actually happened. I predicted that recruiting speakers would be . . . → Read More: PechaKucha at ideaSPARK: Behind The Scenes
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