The Scoop on Being Greener: Walking

Friday October 30, 2009

It's pretty simple and easy, and it should be a no brainer for most folks, but due to it's simplicity, it can be overlooked. Walking! The activity that took you months to learn as an infant is still extremely healthy for you, as well as the environment. With all of the pollutants that can come from automobiles, it is important to remember instead of driving down the street to visit your neighbor, you can always walk down the street to visit your neighbor. Walking provides you with great exercise, as well as, providing you with a beautiful scenary of your neighboorhood. While driving in a car, you may have overlooked certain places in your neighboorhood that you've never seen before, neighboors you've never met before! Take the time today to walk around your neighboorhood: great exercise and great environment.

Office Word of the Day: Conflate

In seeking some inspiration for our office blog, I googled word of the day, and the first to appear was conflate which means to bring or fuse together into one entity.

In elementary school, my teacher told me that the best way to test my understanding of a definition was to use it in a sentence, so here goes nothing! Our services here at Conference and Events are the conflation of expertise and individualized event planning-- with over 15 years in the event planning business we stand prepared to meet your event coordination needs, and it is our goal to make the event come together according to your vision.


--we even know what conflation means. Yeah, we're that good.

A Sunny and Sustainable Day at UC Davis

Today is the 4th annual Campus Sustainability Vendor Fair held in our very own Quad! UC Davis is joining other colleges and universities from across the nation in exchanging knowledge on sustainability, and introducing students, staff, and faculty to environmentally friendly businesses. UC Davis, along with all our UC sister schools, are committed to Environmental Preferable Purchasing (also known as EPP). Our fair features vendors from HP, Xerox, and Davis-area favorite Dos Coyotes Border Cafe. To learn more about how you can practice EPP check out http://purchasing.ucdavis.edu/sustainability/index.cfm

Here at Conference and Event Services we support green events and sustainable living. If you're looking to hold a green event, look no further than Conference and Event Services!

The Scoop on Being Greener: Plan Green Conference 2010

Monday October 19, 2009

The date is in the books and the 2nd annual Plan Green Conference will be held on Tuesday February 16, 2009! We are extremely excited once again to have a conference devoted to green practices in the industry we love the most, event planning. We find it very important to continue to push green ideas and practices in the event planner's industry because we do hold a lot of power in the way an event goes, and in our profession, we can not only make the difference for an event, but also the environment as well.

Last year if you remember, we had over 400 UC Davis event planners in attendance and we hopefully plan to have over 400 this year. Of course we will be having the vendor and caterer showcase just like last year, so make sure to bring your questions and appetites for all those folks working their booths!

Once again, the conference will be held on Tuesday February 16, 2010, so make sure you save the date! Please call (530) 754-7181 for any questions or concerns

The Newbie

Hi readers! My name is Gabrielle and I'm the newest addition to UCD Conference and Event Services team. I don't have an official title yet, but I'll be editing the website to make it user friendly for all of our future clients. So far I've learned more about SEO (search engine optimization), that my co-workers are very green friendly (you go team!), and that Aaron likes to travel in packs... kind of like a wolf.

I study international relations and communication and also write for the California Aggie. As a writer for the Aggie I get to go backstage at a lot of really cool places where few Aggies go: TAPS, UC Davis Police Department, R4-- can you believe that I haven't seen candy bowls in any of these offices?

I'm looking forward to the coming time I'll spend working for Conference and Event Services, and to help make the website the best it can be.

Office Word of the Day: Research

Monday October 12, 2009

UC Davis Conference and Event Services is an organization that is always conducting RESEARCH on what is new, exciting, and most of all appealing to you all out there in the consumer market. We know that you have many options when it comes to event management, but we are passionate and dedicated in learning what you want out of an event management service.

In order to understand what you want, we have to do research, and it can be simply put that we conduct a lot. Whether if it's looking at online articles, reading through your hard copy publications or attending your conferences, we care about what you want, and if we didn't, we'd be out of a job. We learn from you in order to make ourselves better, and it's the research process of our job that makes us successful and the right organization for you!

Office Word of the Day: WOO

Monday October 5, 2009


A first you may have been thinking of the noise someone says when excited, but actually WOO, is an acronym for Window of Opportunity. Whether you are a provider or a client, the window of opportunity is something you should always be focused on. Sometimes the WOO may be big, sometimes it may be small, but most importantly, you want to make sure you have one.

The WOO at UC Davis for hosting your event is quite convenient for events both big and small. We have the facilities and services that you will want to take the opportunity to use and love due to their inexpensiveness and convenience. Everything you need for your conference or event is right here on campus, and we pride ourselves on making the WOO for your conference management fiasco as minute as possible. We would guarantee a 100% success rating, but of course we're only human!

So exercise your big WOO at UC Davis! Trust us, we're event coordinators.