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Spotlight: VH1 Save The Music Foundation
Tonight, TrivWorks is thrilled to be producing a special trivia fund raiser event in Brooklyn in support of an incredible organization, VH1 Save The Music. Now in its 14th year, the mission of the foundation is to promote music education in our local schools through awareness, education and fund raising, all in the spirit of “brainpower”…
Read MoreExpert, Schmexpert: 6 Details Even Professional Event Planners Overlook
This week, TrivWorks will be producing several large-scale trivia events in Manhattan and Brooklyn, including a fund raiser for VH1 Save The Music Foundation and a brand awareness event for The Economist. As any event planner will tell you, big events are made up of countless small details, and with the many stresses which inevitably…
Read MoreCustomizing Corporate Team Building Activities: Silly or Significant?
I was recently on the phone with a prospective client, who was interested in building a team building trivia party for her office. While explaining my company’s range of services, she asked an astute question: what is the value of customizing a team building event? I’m glad she asked that, because I feel passionate about…
Read MoreThe 7 Annoying People You Meet Hosting Trivia Nights
I read a great article yesterday posted on The Awl, entitled “The Seven Annoying Friends You Meet At Trivia Night.” The gist of the article, which every pub quiz enthusiast from Manhattan to Long Beach will enjoy, is that every trivia team has at least one or more characters who fit a certain mold- that…
Read MoreWhat Does the Perfect Trivia Team Building Event Look Like?
Ah, perfection- that most elusive of goals. For those of us who work in the live event industry, we know how hard – actually, impossible – it is to run a “perfect” event, what with so many plates spinning and balls in the air at once. With team building and corporate entertainment activities, the usual…
Read MorePartner Shout-Outs: VH1 Save The Music Trivia Night
One week from today, on Tuesday, June 14th, we are thrilled to be producing a very special trivia fund raiser for VH1 Save The Music, a foundation devoted to keeping music education in public schools. I have long been passionate about this cause, a passion which I share with my wife, a New York City…
Read MoreConfessions of A Trivia Host: Nobody is a Public Speaking Expert
As a professional trivia host, I am always on the lookout for opportunities to practice and improve my public speaking skills. While I spend most weeknights producing and hosting live trivia parties and corporate team building activities in New York City, by day I serve as director of adult learning & enrichment programs at the…
Read MoreWhy Some Pub Quizzes Stink, And How to Improve Them
A recently published article in the BBC News Magazine caught my eye this week, entitled “Can pub quizzes survive in the Smartphone era?” The gist of the piece, as you might imagine, is that in a world where everyone texts and has Google in their pocket, can the traditional pub quiz night ever be the…
Read MoreFrequently Asked Questions About Trivia Team Building
With the rise in popularity of pub quiz has come a growing interest in using live trivia as a corporate team building activity. However, as a relatively new approach to an area long characterized by ropes courses, scavenger hunts and 3-legged races, companies probably have a few questions of their own about how trivia can…
Read MoreMatching Company Culture with Summer Associate & Intern Entertainment
Each summer, New York City and other large metropolitan areas are flooded with summer associates & interns – undergrad & graduate students from across the country and world, who arrive for highly competitive (and often lucrative) temporary positions at leading financial, legal and other professional institutions. This summer staff typically works hard and plays hard,…
Read MoreConducting Virtual Team Building Events – MTV Case Study
It’s a classic problem for office managers, corporate event planners and human resources professionals in the 21st Century. You have been tasked with creating a team building activity to help boost morale & foster goodwill amongst the disparate groups which make up your office or department. The only problem is, while you and the majority…
Read MoreHow to Make Corporate Entertainment Events Memorable
This being Memorial Day, I thought it would be a good opportunity to discuss one of the most sought-after aspects of corporate event entertainment, which is how to make it memorable. Whether we’re talking about corporate parties for clients & senior staff, employee team building activities or experiential marketing events to raise brand awareness, the…
Read More10 Clean Comebacks to Trivia Night Hecklers
It’s probably one of the most understated guilty pleasures of the bar trivia experience, for both the host and the audience: watching a heckler get slapped down. Trivia nights are fun and informal, and when done right there is a free and open engagement between the participants and the quizmaster. At my events, I actually…
Read More5 Features of a Perfect Corporate Team Building Activity
Whether held in Peoria, Toledo or New York City, corporate team building and employee entertainment events should have a lot in common. Sure, there is a lot of variety out there, and plenty of activities to choose from (although “trust falls” may be a bit past their prime). However, when it comes right down to…
Read MoreEvent Planner’s Guide to Surviving Cancellations
I hold a rather unique position in the word of event professionals, being both a planner and a supplier. As such, I can attest to two things regarding event cancellations: 1) they are inevitable, and 2) they are no fun. Neither the planner nor the talent enjoys being told that, for one reason or another,…
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