TREND REPORT PLANNERS
GREG DESANDY
DAVID C. MCKNIGHT
KAT PAYE
JANET KORN
LARISA DRAVES, CMP
LYN GLEASURE, CMP, CPCE
LINDSAY KRAUSE
WHAT’S IN THEIR BAG?
Meeting and event pros offer insights on how they stay focused and effectively execute their plans with clients. B Y R O G E R G O R D O N ONE OF THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED questions our editors hear at functions is what tools do other meeting and event professionals use to stay on track and keep organized. After they completed voting earlier this year on the 2019 Hall of Fame honorees that appeared in the Summer 2019 issue, we asked several members of the Michigan Meetings + Events Editorial Advisory Board what works best for them.
Here’s a look inside their planning bag. “I use an app called Hootsuite,” says Greg DeSandy, director of sales and event services for Cobo Center in Detroit. “We have various teams within the department, including
a customer service team and a social media team. We communicate with each other through the Hootsuite app. It’s very similar to a Google Doc, but everybody has access to it and can see everything as it relates to that subject. We use Google Docs, usually when working with a third party. We also use group texts and chats with specific customers and for specific events.” “We use Office 365, a cloud-based server, for our team,” says Kat Paye, executive director for
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