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Ping! An email has arrived reminding j2 of the black-tie dress code for next week’s “Events Industry Night of Nights” and hereby prompting another ‘fashion-panic’ post on our event planning blog. Just under one week remains until the 2013 Australian Event Awards gala on 19th November at Sydney’s Doltone House, and j2 ideas & events can’t wait to learn who is going home as Event Manager of the Year. (If you didn’t know already, our Brisbane events management company is one of four category finalists!) Yet excitement over the prospect of winning appears outweighed by dressing etiquette worries...again! (I refer to our mid-year “I have nothing to wear!” post). A frenzy of dress code debate has ensued in the j2 office. We’re more anxious about fashion faux-pas than helping our fearless leader script a one-minute ‘just-in-case’ acceptance speech. Present planning involves one of us in a black tulle meringue-esque ball gown. Over the top? Another has readied a delicately patterned floo...

People like to talk about toilets! Flashbacks from my recent conferencing weekend have inspired this addition to our event management blog, as I recall empathetic giggles and affirming nods of audience members during a presentation to industry colleagues on calculating toilet numbers at special events. This post aims to satisfy the urgency (ha ha) for practical tips on portable toilets. From conversations with fellow events professionals, event planners seem hungry for best practice guidance on event logistics that are planned safely and within the law. (Popularity of j2’s earlier blog on planning events in strange locations proves that). Well, toilets could very well top the event logistics interest list!  Who would have thought the humble loo such a fascinating topic? How many toilets do I need? If I had a dollar for every time I was asked this question I’d be retired from events management and flitting from event to festival as a guest (not planning them). The answer is: there...