Agenda Online

Imagine the details required to plan an event. The challenge of event planning increases if the event is scheduled to occur out of town. Agenda Online (http://www.agendaonline.com) is one answer to the planning challenges of making an event occur in a seamless fashion. To an extent, the site is an e-commerce link to help event planners make contact with vendors, most particularly hotels, convention centers, and other key elements of an event.

As stated in its Web site, “Agenda is a business-to-business directory providing relevant information about sites and services that event planners need to plan and produce special events of any size. Agenda also offers its readers a free referral service to help corporate planners plan their events. This service is entirely free to planners and their resources and always helpful.”

One of the close companions for event management is the hospitality industry. A diverse array of professionals in that industry create and offer services that assist event planners to make arrangements in as efficient a manner as possible. Traditionally, event planners might be specialists in the public relations industry or the hospitality industry—or both. Even with specialists, organizations planning events had to rely on a plethora of directories for cities where they might want to hold an event but with which they were not familiar.

Agenda Online is a Web-based service that can help bring the planner together with persons who will help to make arrangements and deliver services to make the event pleasant and productive. It features the relevant contacts and services for various major cities and convention sites.

The Web site includes advertisements for attractions in those cities that might appeal to the event participants and their families. A bookstore is also available at the site. The user will find a bulletin board and an e-bulletin board, as well as events calendars. This part of the site allows planners and schedulers to make contact with one another and to coordinate their efforts. The site also includes referrals and agenda contacts.

One of the most helpful parts of Agenda Online is the tips it provides. This window is designed based on various categories where the planner—however skilled—can get relevant advice such as beverage services convenient to the locale of the event and group activities. It includes such tantalizing options as tips for holding events on yachts and ways to choose the right floral designer.