Event planner Stacey Paul Barabe, CSEP, head of Orlando, Fla.-based Exhilarate Events, wrote this post to the Orlando Sentinel in response to an editorial praising two Florida law firms that canceled their holiday parties, donating money to...

It was the perfect plan: launch one hot, new “green” site at another. The client, online eco-lifestyle magazine EcoStiletto, booked Ecco Hollywood — an as-yet-to-open space that touts itself as the “only eco-friendly lounge” in Los Angeles — as...

Philomat, Va.-based Team Rover Adventures challenges, motivates and connects co-workers through a series of executive retreat programs in an informal, friendly environment. Modified off-road Land Rovers are provided for groups navigating the...

There is luxury, then there is unique luxury. That's the distinction that Wuppertal, Germany-based Vok Dams Group sought to create for premium car-maker Lamborghini. For a series of two-day press launches of the Gallardo LP560-4, held over a two...

The good news: You are promoting the opening of the $500 million floating casino, the largest in the Midwest. The bad news: It will open Aug. 8, the same day as the start of the Summer Olympics in Beijing...

Prominent outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said today that its annual survey of human resource directors shows that 77 percent of companies interviewed plan to host holiday parties for employees this year, down from 90 percent in...

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August 2008 — I was asked to keynote for a new association of event and entertainment planners in India, an organization called EEMA. It was new and bold, and members were interested in learning all that they could about events in the rest of the...

Timing really is everything. Kathy Miller, founder of Schaumburg, Ill.-based Total Event Resources, at first didn't dream of working in the special event industry. But trading in her “boring” bank job for a position as sales and marketing...

It takes a great event to impress beauty editors who have seen — and sampled — it all. At the April media launch of Coty Prestige's new “Harajuku Lovers” fragrance collection, created by pop superstar Gwen Stefani, Los Angeles-based TBA Global...