Blog Guidelines
Our blog and podcast attracts an audience of professional meeting and event planners, and we are always on the lookout for meaningful and high quality content to share with our readers and listeners. If you have fantastic writing skills and want to share your expertise with our audience, we invite you to reach out to us. We do however have a few guidelines for the content we are looking for.
Successful contributions must be of importance to meeting and event planners. We love posts focused on best practices and top tips, trends and any topic that event and meetings care about. The goal of our blog is to help meeting and event planners be excellent in their jobs.
Some of the things we are looking for in the posts we publish:
· We seek well-written and original content. We won’t republish a post or infographic published elsewhere already, except articles submitted for our News, and Destinations and Venues sections.
· All data, quotes and third party references used in the post must be properly attributed.
· No more than one link to your company’s or organization’s website may be included in the post. Destination articles may include links to multiple venues included in the post.
· All posts must include a byline, minimally including the name of the author, position, company or organization and email address. It may also include up to two links to either your website, twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or other social media account. We encourage inclusion of a short author bio and headshot.
The Eventinterface Blog features 5 sections:
TIPS AND RESOURCES
This section includes posts highlighting best practices, top tips and tools useful to meeting and event planners. These posts are meant to provide in-depth information and takeaways that can be implemented immediately by the planner. Posts tend to be about 1,000 words, but can be more or less. Provide as much detailed information with the appropriate attributions.
NEWS
News posts highlight product launches, promotions and events, new hires, generally important or useful news to meeting and event planners. These posts are meant to provide general industry updates and information for our readers. Posts tend to be about 500 words, but can be more. Provide as much detailed information with the appropriate attribution and photographs are welcomed. See "About Graphics" below.
DESTINATIONS AND VENUES
This section includes posts on venues, resorts, hotels and complete destinations. These posts are meant to provide the readers with a good overview of a venue or destination, enticing the reader to consider the destination or venue for their next event or conference. These posts tend to be about 1,000 words, but can be more or less. These posts are highly image driven and should include information such as number of sleeping rooms and meeting space details. See "About Graphics" below.
INTERVIEWS WITH PLANNERS
Interviews with Planners is a series of written interviews with professional event or meeting planners. Planners answer a series of questions and share information helpful to their peers. Download the Interviews with Planners questionnaire here and follow instruction on the form to submit the article.
Event TALK
Our Event TALK podcast show is a by invitation only podcast addressing a wide variety of topics and best practices. Shows are 10 to 20 minutes long and have featured planners, AV companies, lawyers, tech companies and more. Want to be a guest? Send us a note with your topic pitch.
ABOUT GRAPHICS
Graphics are important to our posts. Each post has a lead-in graphic. Submit a story appropriate high quality photograph in JPEG or PNG format of 848 pixels wide by 364 pixels high, and attribute the picture in your notes.
If you include any photographs with your post, pictures can be as wide as 848 pixels and there is no height restriction; however, we reserve the right to edit the size of images to fit the overall layout of the webpage. Pictures for your posts should be high quality and delivered in JPEG or PNG format and attributed.
We reserve the right to not use the provided photographs if they do not meet quality standards, are deemed inappropriate for the audience, and/or if they are not attributed.
WHAT WE WON’T ACCEPT:
· Posts deemed too promotional.
· Anything that may be deemed as a link building scheme.
· Posts that prove inappropriate, offensive or inaccurate.
· Topics that have received significant coverage in our blog before. Always helpful to conduct a search prior to submitting your post.
Anything that is knowingly false, and/or inaccurate, defamatory, abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, threatening, hateful, harassing, profane, sexually oriented, invasive of another person's privacy, or any other material that may violate any applicable laws.
AND SOME OTHER GUIDELINES
· The Eventinterface team reserves the right to accept or decline posts at will.
· Posts should remain exclusive to Eventinterface and we can’t allow you to re-blog the article to your own blog or other source after. We do want you to social share your article as much as you can! Really, have at it!
· We reserve the right to edit your submission.
· We may include your posts or parts thereof in future e-books, infographics and other materials, and we will always credit you.
We may link to other Eventinterface posts and helpful resource materials that may compliment your article.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLE?
Articles can be emailed to . Please submit your article in a Word Doc only. Attach images to your email. If image files are too large for emailing, send along invitation to DropBox to download images. Refer to “About Graphics” above for file and dimensions. Please include in the body of your email contact details should we have any follow up questions. Keep in mind that it usually takes us about a week to respond back to submissions. We will keep you updated as to the process from acceptance to publication.
More questions about submitting a blog post, drop us a note at .