Slingshot hopes to best Evite, the event planning and invitation site, with Social Plan.
Some cuts are likely to come from consolidating Microsoft's event planning and customer relations activities.
After studying to become a lawyer, she went into publishing and floral design and event planning.
She is the founder of Kayyem Solutions, LLC, providing strategic advice to a range of companies in technology, risk management, mega-event planning, venture capital and more.
This past New Year's Eve, an event planning company hosted a black-tie bash onboard that included live music, fireworks and a laser light show.
MSN: Queen Elizabeth 2 now planned as floating hotel in Dubai
"You need feet on the street in local, " says Jennifer Dulski, cofounder of event planning site Center'd and previously vice president of Yahoo's local efforts.
McCrary runs her own business, a wedding and event planning company called Lavish Soiree, and Campbell is a sportscaster for a Miami TV station.
Eventbrite is proving that there is a market for online event planning for small and medium sized events such as yoga classes, fundraisers and music performances.
FORBES: Eventbrite Hit Nearly $41 Million In Ticket Sales Last Quarter
He started up event planning group Showtime with a fellow Villanova alum, and then spent 18 years building up the business before merging it with Sparks in 2005.
McClain's teammate Harold Jensen is also in Philly, where he's a partner with Sparks, an event planning and conference consultant that works with high powered clients like Google and Adidas.
Notably, ESPN Regional Television owns and operates all seven of the bowls, meaning that it does not have to expense the operations and event planning for the bowls to an outside entity.
FORBES: ESPN's Path to Becoming a Bowl Game Owner and Redefining Bowl Game Operations
Founded in 1999, the tiny company operates 12 subsidiaries and claims to work with 10, 000 churches on everything from fundraising to event planning (it provides speakers and artists for events) to upgrading technology by helping sell new audio and visual equipment and sound systems.
Yet most impressive are the more modest homegrown ventures: new boutique hotels, restaurants, small IT shops, printers, event planning, and tourism offerings. (In 2010 alone, 18, 447 new businesses were registered in Rwanda.) A young woman dressed in smart attire urged two visitors to come to her new shop, which sells upscale fabrics and offers custom tailoring.
FORBES: Rwanda: A Stunning Turnaround On A Continent Marked By Broken Promises
The system, developed internally at Linden Lab, has been adopted by online review site Yelp, event-planning site Eventbrite and digital-marketing agency Organic.
Havas, too, has branched out into an area not typically associated with advertising by acquiring Cake, a British entertainment and event-planning agency.
Designed to help anyone host a holiday dinner, brunch, or cocktail party, the app offers event and execution planning, from menu design to shopping to serving the meal.
As we were planning the event, we agreed it would be best to bring scientists into the mix.
In either event, Ford is planning for initial demand of the Escape Hybrid to far outstrip supply, according to Marty Collins , Ford's general marketing manager.
Planning this event began with a group of over 200 people from all walks of life who assembled on Boston Common Tuesday evening to discuss taking action.
The 50 participants are mostly members of youth council or civil society groups in their respective communities and a core group of young leaders have been involved in planning the event since December 2011.
UNESCO: Pacific and M��ori Youth Converge to Talk Disaster Resilience.
After a few months planning the event, I met the Lamborghini staff at Nardo Prototipo: a four-lane, 7.8-mile-long (12.6 km) circular track in southern Italy, where Ferrari , Maserati and other exotic carmakers test their vehicles.
Here's the silliness that will be occupying the blogosphere for the next two weeks: According to AppleInsider, Apple is planning an event to celebrate its 30th anniversary around the beginning of April, and they may trot out new widescreen Intel iBooks or the long rumored and lusted-after widescreen video-Pod...
Planning for the event had begun in 1968, and was the brainchild of Prime Minister Terence O'Neill.
Gloucestershire Police confirmed earlier it had given advice to those who took part in planning the unofficial event.
More than 35 federal, state and local agencies have been involved in planning for the event, which began a year ago.
The source also said that Gates is already planning another big event in May, at which President Obama will be a guest.
Scheduling and planning for the event was orchestrated for maximum drama.
This week, several of America's allies refused to go along with a proposal that Nato should begin planning for the event of war against Iraq.
The officials said the administration is planning a Monday event at the White House at which Obama will overturn the executive order signed by President George W. Bush in August 2001.
Earlier this year, the gaming news site Computer and Video Games reported that Microsoft was planning an April event for the next Xbox, but it seems that date has been pushed to May.
应用推荐