Technology Tools
What helps me get through all the planning!
What helps me get through all the planning!
My Computer My savior, best friend, and seriously the only technology I really need to succeed as an event planner! My computer helps keep me organized (thank you i-calendar!), provides all the essential needs, and never seizes to fail me!
Pinterest is a very popular website used for inspiration, crafting (do-it-yourself), and used for new ideas to be found. The way pinterest works is very simple and easy to comprehend. You easily follow others that post pictures to your interest. These pictures range anywhere from home decor, cooking, fashion, or even fitness advice. You can simply re-pin the photos or ideas that appeal to you and place them in your "boards" in which you organize yourself. Such as, "Home Decor" , "Wear", or even "Future". This online network has been a savior to many event planners or anyone who is seeking inspiration to form new thoughts and ideas. I use Pinterest in my everyday life now and would use it for ideas, crafts, and inspiration for my future career in becoming an Event Planner.
Super Planner is a very well known app for your mobile phone that has been recognized world wide by event planners and has even won a Special Events Gala Award in 2011. This app is very easy and simple to use for anyone. Unfortunately, it does cost $9.99 but 100% worth the purchase! This app provides a wide range of tools to accomodate any event planner or anyone in hopes of planning an amazing event. These tools include calculators for venue capacity, catering, staging, projection, and many more useful tips that will help any event succeed. This would be very helpful to have as help or guidance for my planning.
Punchbowl is a fairly new app that also offers the essentials to planning an event. This app creates gorgeous invites and keeps track of all the RSVPS. This innovative app is very easy to use and figure out as well. You can also set up gift registries, create a message board, save the dates, and provide google maps to each invite. This app would make planning an event so much easier and will help take the stress off.
Evernote is an iphone app as well.. That helps bring your ideas to life and takes brainstorming to a whole new level. By purchasing this app you can take down notes, record your ideas with your voice, and all of your notes from your computer, email, ipad, etc. are synced through this application. This is an essential for any event planner considering the fact that our job consist of mostly brainstorming and thinking of new ideas to plan the perfect party.
Snapable is a fairly new app that you can easily download onto your smart phone! This application has been a huge success and talk of the town for any special occassion. Snapable is an easy innovative app that has discovered the easy way of sharing photos. Guest are allowed to post pictures and share fun memorable photos with others. The host of the party has access to these photos as well, that way they get to see what photos the photographer didn't take!