The document discusses how to modernize events for the 21st century using technology by balancing tradition with new approaches. It suggests rethinking budgets, invitations, decorations, and the attendee experience to add a "wow factor" and encourage guests to feel like an important part of the organization's vision. The presentation encourages taking risks and thinking differently about how to design events that are unique yet engage attendees.

1. Event Rejuvenation: Using
Technology to Modernize Your
Events for the 21st Century
Lynne M. Wester
ADRP SEDRC
@donorguru

2. Road Map
• Needs are Changing
• Budgets are Changing
• The “WOW” Factor
• Technology is Pervasive
• Who’s Watching
• Who’s attending?

3. Design an event that
encourages guests to feel that
they are an essential part of
the University’s grand vision,
by balancing the old with the
new, and the intimate with the
global.

4. Too Much Looks Like Everything Else

5. Why Not?

6. TAKE A RISK

7. Repurpose
• Tchotchkes and other evils
• Florals
• Students

8. Eliminate Print

9. Change the Way you Invite

11. What if?

12. Do This:

13. Not That:

14. That extra something…

15. The Attendee Experience

16. Follow Up

17. • Questions??
• Comments??
• THANK YOU!
• Lynne M. Wester
• Wester@yu.edu
• www.donorrelationsguru.com
• Twitter- @donorguru