I get asked this question a lot: Are there any good event planning blogs out there? My answer is short: Yes, there’s one. Okay, clearly that’s not true–it can’t be. The event business, like nearly every other industry, is flooded with blogs, discussion forums, and the like; but the reality is that I haven’t come across many that I feel are helpful, interesting, or well written. I have not searched the Web exhaustively but the one that stands out to me as the best event industry blog is EventManagersBlog.

There’s not a lot of event people talking, sharing, helping other event planners. Julius Solaris is the main man at EventManagersBlog and whenever I spend time on his site I feel he’s making a big effort to lend a helping hand. What I particularly like about the blog is that he’s got a team of contributors that also jump in (here they are, twitter links and all): Julius Solaris, Anne Thornley-Brown, Kena Siu, Jeff Hurt, Greg Ruby, and Brett Petersel. There’s a good cross-section of perspectives, interests, and experience represented by this group of collaborators and their posts compliment one another.

My 3 favourite posts on their site are:

1. Event Management Toolkit v.2
2. 15 Free Ebooks about Event Planning
3. 10 Alternative Business Models for Events

My bias here might just be because Julius calls himself an Event Geek and based on my propensity to preach about techy things (online event registration, e-mail/sms marketing, authentic viral marketing, and such) I figure we must be cut from the same cloth.

Now, let’s not leave it at that. If you know of a great event industry blog, one that is helpful to vocational event planners and managers, please let us know by leaving a comment below (or tweetit) – I’m @corwinhiebert.

Posted by: Corwin Hiebert