The Bullet List Show

You well be wondering what ‘managed travel’ is and why you need it. In this episode we are joined by Elliot McNamee, director of product marketing at AmTrav.  We discuss what managed travel is and how AmTrav can make life easier  when trying to get attendees booked in to the right place.

We also talk about AmTrav’s latest product, Gather. Their new tool provides expert help and time saving services for anyone booking travel for meetings and events.

As an event planner, are you doing enough to evaluate potential  venues for accessibility? Do you test your event website to ensure that  it meets the requirements for those with impairments? Just how inclusive  is your event?

Joining us to discuss these questions and how the event industry is  dealing with accessibility, are Laura Jelinek and returning guest, Francesca Rodriguez Balit. We explore the issues facing event planners, venues and website designers.

This is the first in a series of episodes that will look deeper in to accessibility.

It can be really tough when it comes to choosing a suitable virtual event platform. Do you go for a customised package or use an 'off the shelf' solution? How much support will you need and just how much will it cost?

Our guest, Merijn van Buuren of Event Mender, shares his top tips on how to select a platform that suits your needs. He also talks about how Event Mender will make life a lot easier for event planners.

What is the current of state social media, with regards to the event industry? In this episode, Tess Vismale from iSocial Execution joins us to discuss the various social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. We also talk about Elon Musk, the benefits of Facebook Groups and our favourite social media platforms.

"Tess Vismale is a creative visionary and the Chief Event Executioner for iSocialExecution, Inc. She is also a proud Tech Evangelist on the DAHLIA+ team. She is the former Senior Event Lead for Atlanta Botanical Gardens, a Tech Evangelist with The Meeting Pool, as well as the Conference Center Manager at Atlanta Technical College, where she served on the President's Leadership Team. Tess is a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) and Digital Event Strategist (DES)."

Event planning can be really stressful, especially when trying to get  everyone involved in an event on the same page. How can you ensure  everyone has the most up to date information?

We talk with Rob Vass, co-founder of Joi.events about how his platform can make an event planners life a lot easier. Topics include how spreadsheets can be counter productive, best ways to ensure everyone has the latest information and how to simplify the gathering of content from clients and speakers.

In this episode, we chat with Tim Flors, SVP & Chief Customer Officer at Groups360.  Tim talks about the back-story to the platform, what it has to offer  event planners and along with current and future integrations.

Things don't always go right at an event, you might be missing a cable or two, not enough power sockets or even a squeaky door to ruin a presentation! We discuss the essential items you need to carry to your events for when those small disasters strike.

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In this episode we talk about Event & Association Websites with Francesca Rodriguez Balit of BBR Web Management. Francesca's company is a personal web management boutique for event organisers. We discuss websites, social media and some of the mistakes that can spoil a visitors experience.

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In this episode we talk with Lisa Schulteis, an experienced organiser of live and virtual events. She is the founder of Your Event Market Place, the market place for event professionals.

She started working on her new project during the various Covid lockdowns of 2020 and launched the business in 2021. In our conversation we discuss how and why she got started, about the service itself and the various challenges she faced in getting established.

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In this episode, we discuss the Metaverse with Stas Zaslavsky Of Vii Events and Stuart Mitchell of Catch The Mice.  We ask questions like, what exactly is the Metaverse and what can you do when you get there? We also talk about the differences between what Facebook thinks the Metaverse is and what everyone else imagines it to be.

Stas is the co-founder and CEO of VII-Events, an All-in-One 3D 360° Metaverse Platform. Stuart has many talents including, director at Catch the MICE Limited, event industry connector, speaker and general dispeller of darkness!