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Beyond the Beltway: Colorado Springs

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As we mentioned last week, we will be looking at cities nation-wide that are great options for hosting events for the government audience. We picked locations with a high concentration of federal employees in reasonable travel proximity. Today, we highlight Colorado Springs, CO.

Colorado Springs has approximately 55,000 federal workers in the immediate metro area working at military installations including Fort Carson, the Air Force Academy, Peterson Air Force Base and Schriever Air Force Base, and U.S. Northern Command as well as large numbers of employees working for the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Geological Survey and federal prison system.  The city is a reasonable travel distance from Denver as well as a number of major western/central cities.

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FedBizBeat’s Q&A with GovEvents President Kerry Rea

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Originally posted on FedBizBeat by Joyce Bosc

Kerry Rea, president of GovEvents, has many years of experience working in the government marketplace. She took the time to talk with FedBizBeat about government events and the trends for 2014, as well as, how to promote your event using social media.

1. Can you tell us a little about GovEvents? GovEvents is the online resource for all government- and military-related events worldwide. Government and military personnel can find events to attend, government contractors and primes can find events that they'd like to exhibit at/sponsor, and the government event organizer community has a place to post all of their government-related events for free! We have over 34,000 GovEvents members (adding over a 1,000 new members a month!), and the GovEvents community adds about 400 new events to the site each month.

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No Strings on Me! Tablet Use at Events

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Tablets have become a lifesaver, or at least an arm saver, for event managers used to carrying around large binders that contained all needed documentation for an event. As tablet use continues to increase among event planners and attendees alike, what are some ways events and our interactions at events have to change?

For event planners, the tablet may be lighter, but if data is not organized and accessible, it may become just as cumbersome as flipping through those heavy binders. This article from Corbin Ball Associates provides some great guidance on how best to optimize your tablet for on-site use complete with suggestions on apps to download and begin using today.

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How Event Organizers Can Take Advantage of Twitter’s New Photo Tagging

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Originally posted on Eventbrite Blog by Mark.

There's exciting news from the Twitter camp this week, as they announced a Facebook-style photo-tagging feature is being rolled out.

The feature will allow you to tag up to 10 people in any photos that you share on Twitter, who will then be notified that they've been tagged. Users can alter their notification and tag settings, so they can untag themselves or not allow their profile to be tagged at all.  For more info on how it works, check out their dedicated help page here. As part of the same announcement you can now upload up to four photos at the same time to any one tweet, making it easy to create a nice montage of photos. Best of all, tagging photos doesn't affect your character count so there's still the same amount of space for your witty captions!

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(Not) Strictly Ballroom: Unique Meeting Spaces in DC Metro Area

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To get people to your event of course you need a great speaker and great content, but a new and different environment can help as well. Everyone tires of the same old hotel ballrooms (not that there is anything wrong with them). While hotel facilities are great for many types of events, if you are not hosting a major exhibition or tradeshow-type event, your options for venues in the DC-area can really open up to some unique and (dare we say) fun spaces. Below is a quick list of locations we've discovered.

Washington, DC

Powerhouse - Located in Georgetown, the location was once home to the DC Paper Manufacturing Company. The open, soaring space is best suited to networking and cocktail functions. We could see it being a great venue for a product launch event.

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