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Category Archives: leadership
Writing Event Proposals
Continuing my series on event management, today I’ll share some thoughts about writing proposals for events. These types of proposals are typical when you have multiple events or event sites competing for limited organizational dollars. As with any proposal, your … Continue reading
Posted in Events, leadership, management, proposal writing, volunteering
Tagged community outreach, event management
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Crisis Communications
Today I’ll be talking a bit about crisis communications–how to help an organization communicate with the public about what it is doing should some major event–environmental (weather), human-created (violence), governmental (policy), or other major event negatively affect their operations. Some … Continue reading
Posted in leadership, management, workplace
Tagged crisis communications, public affairs
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Staffing for Events
Continuing my riff on Event Management, today I’ll be discussing recruiting team members for the event. A reader commented about an external event management company on the last post, so let me clarify that the assumption for these posts is … Continue reading
Posted in leadership, management, peers, proposal writing, workplace
Tagged event management, volunteering
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Technical Writing and Event Management, Revisited
I’ve written about event management a couple of times before (here and here, for example). However, I’ve not written about the activity in a comprehensive way because I have this lurking fear that if people see me writing about event … Continue reading
Posted in careers, clients, leadership, management, meetings, peers, personal, proposal writing, technical writing, volunteering, workplace
Tagged event management
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Leadership Lessons from Evony
My online game playing continues. I do manage to learn useful things while frittering away hours of my free time. No, really! Today I’ll talk about where it’s taken me…figuratively speaking, of course (I spend a ridiculous amount of time … Continue reading
Posted in leadership, management, personal, philosophy, workplace
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