How do you stay organized and on top of your events all while juggling your work and home-life responsibilities, and manage to do it with ease?

With so much clutter around us – between emails, social media, texting, and the numerous amazing apps available to make our life simpler, it can feel overwhelming and difficult to narrow down to what actually benefits us rather than distracts us.

How Technology Affects The Events You Plan

In today’s episode of EventPlanning BlueprintTV, the founder of Meeting-U, Jim Spellos, talks about how technology affects the events you plan and why you better get on board or get left behind. Listen up!

Jim is a technology and social media guru who specializes in the event industry. He’s also an award winning teacher at New York University with over 20 years of teaching technology.

How can you use technology for the events you plan, even if you aren’t ‘tech savvy”? Well, you’re going to learn some must-have information that is sure to affect your events – and your life.

This is one of the most valuable and informative interviews yet so go ahead and watch now…

Here’s a quick list of the apps that Jim recommends in this episode:

1. Evernote
2. Hootsuite
3. Zite
4. Haystack
5. FlightBoard
6. Waze
7. Pocket Planner
8. Smart Measure
9. Crowd Mics
10. Your own event app – specific to your event

Once you’ve had a chance to watch, I’d love to hear from you. In the comments below, let me know what your favorite app is and why. Thanks for sharing!