Event Management is not an easy job!!

Event management is not a walk on the park. There are many things that could go wrong. Effective event planning is essential. Be it social events like Parties and weddings or corporate events like Annual General Meetings and Product launch parties, a proper event management system has to be in place. 

I will show you 5 tips to remember when managing an event:

1. Not all events are the same

A classic mistake by event managers would be to think the same way for all events. Each event is different and requires different and innovative thinking. You cannot actually manage to perform the same things for two different types of events. Hosting a corporate event requires you to have a complete know how of protocols and procedures. On the other hand, managing a concert requires you to have knowledge about sound systems and various other resources.

2. Estimate correctly

If you are holding a real time event, you need to figure out the number of guests correctly. Ensuring that proper seating arrangements are there and guests get ample space to move around is essential. If starters are being served you need to ensure that food reaches to all.   Remember, what might be right for a few people might not be right for a hundred other people.

3. Prepare and arrange correctly

Hosting an event requires you to understand your responsibilities. All organizers should know their duties perfectly so that nothing is missed out. More, you need to be careful about the arrangements, especially proper technical equipments.  You do not want the mike to go off in the middle of a performance, do you?

4. Adhere to the rules

Before you organize an event, you might need to take permissions from the authorities or follow a certain procedure. Remember to complete all the formalities and adhere to all legal rules so as to avoid any complications.

5. Don’t panic!

One of the worst things that could happen is that you panic if something goes wrong. Things do not always go right even if you do meticulous event planning. Event management requires a good amount of planning and an ability to shred off the most difficult of situations with a smile on your face. Even if anything goes wrong during the event, instead of fretting over it, try to make sure everything else goes right!

The most destructive battle of online gaming (EVE Online)

In the universe of EVE Online, players from every timezone around the globe have been waging wars on a massive scale for nearly 11 years. Some conflicts have been relatively small grudge matches between rivals from adjoining solar systems with maybe a dozen or so frigates and cruisers facing off in fast-paced combat. Others, like the Great War, are fueled by tens of thousands of players and blossom with all the same propaganda, diplomacy (and espionage), supply-chain logistics and military tactics that might fuel a real-world conflict, taking months to resolve and changing entire industrial patterns across the star map.

The Bloodbath of B-R5RB or Battle of B-R5RB was a massive-scale virtual battle fought in the MMORPG space game EVE Online, and was possibly the largest player versus player battle ever. Pitting the CFC and Russian alliances (CFC/Rus) against N3 and Pandemic Legion (N3/PL), the 21 hour long conflict involved over 7,548 player characters overall and a maximum of 2,670 players in the B-R5RB system at one time. The in-game cost of the losses totalled over 11 trillion ISK, a theoretical real-world value of $300,000 to $330,000 USD. 

This theoretical value is derived from training credits which are available in-game but which players can purchase additional amounts of for a small subscription fee.

In all that time one kind of ship has always been the most coveted target for any fleet, thirsted after for the glory of defeating it as evidenced by this recording of the first one to die in combat.

Titans, the largest ship class in EVE Online, take thousands of man hours to produce, take months to train to fly, and are capable of fitting massive doomsday weapons that obliterate lesser ships with a single volley.  To get a good understanding of the size of these Sci Fi monsters, check out this comparison chart (the Amarr Avatar is the brownish “mushroom” looking behemoth with the similarly sized Erebus above it and Ragnarok and Leviathan below it. Other EVE ships are found throughout) or watch this to-scale player-made video comparing several classes of EVE ships.

EVE Online has proven to be one of the most important Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game of all time, just by the number of players and the amount of money invested in the game is enough to back-up my statement. I apologize if the information is not in a 100% accurate, but I am just a casual gamer that ran across this information and I thought it was worth sharing with all of you who love gaming and entertainment in general.

What is this Blog about?

I had to think and re-think over and over again what should I write for my first post. Eventually came up with the idea of giving a little bit of background on the blog and me. My name is Dimitri Medori, I am 25 years old and I am currently enrolled in a Master’s Degree Program in Entertainment Business. I have a bachelor’s in Mass Media Communications and I’ve been working as a Producer for TV networks and music videos, Manager of Live Sports events, as well as a consultant for Marketing Strategies, Corporative Image and Communications.

My passion dwells in the world of Arts & Entertainment, films, books, comic-books, music, painting, drawing, live shows; for me all this arts together make the world an awesome place to live in, that is why I want to bring this arts to the people, in my role as a producer or simply as the middle-guy who connects you the costumer, the consumer the entertained with the message and information the artist wants to convey.

Post after post I will talk about different works of production and marketing either on Media (Television, Radio, Cinema, Video Games, etc.) or Live shows that are groundbreaking in the way they manage to bring the entertainment to the consumer. I will also talk about certain skills that every Entrepreneur or Intrapreneur has to develop in order to become a leader in the Entertainment Business.

Another take on my post will be about how to access information to all this skills and tips necessary to aid us in our quest to leadership in this business. I will recommend books, Internet articles, as well as magazines and newspapers and videos, where information about this business reachable, unbiased and trust worthy.

To wrap this up I’d like to add a video about Dr. Randy Pausch that shows how important is to keep fighting no matter what and how can people be influence by it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1CEhH5gnvg

And just to recommend one of my favorite web pages about Business ideas and resources for Entrepreneurs.

http://www.inc.com