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iPartyGramsPro 3.1 Released – called the “Coolest Party Invitation Pic App” for iPhone and iPad Now Available on iTunes

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BOULDER – Techtionary just announced a new release of its iPartyGramsPro party invitation and picture sharing app for Apple iPhone and iPad available now on iTunes. “iPartyGramPro is an exciting way for party-wedding planners, event organizers and partygoers to plan, invite and provide a private party picture sharing experience,” noted Tom Cross creator. According to TheAppWhisperer, the #1 Mobile App Reviewer, “iPartyGrams is the coolest party planning app for iPhone/iPad designed to help you organize and plan your next party. It allows you to select invitees from your contacts list and send them an invitation within the app. You can also send additional details about the party to your contacts and receive their replies too. This app is particularly useful if you are inviting a lot of people to one event and want to manage all the replies.” Click on the icon to the left for the complete review and video.

More than 50 party ideas, tips and fun on iPartyGrams website – click here.

iPartyGramsPro has no annoying popup ads.

Details can be found on the iPartyGramsPro website at http://ipartygrams.com or immediately on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/techtionary.com/id379186267

Key Features Include:

1) Unlimited party app for iPhone/iPad

- Organize and invite guests via Contact Lists

- Post Party Pics to Facebook, Twitter and Email

- Use Invitation Designs included or create your own Invitation Design

- Secure Party VIPs can post pics

- Secure Party Guests can only view

- New Party Tips & Ideas on website

2) iPartygramPro Version has an integrated calendar with more than 180 unique icons to describe the event

3) Easy to use iPartyPads provide for reminders, notes, and quick ideas which can be shared with party goers, event, wedding and meeting planners. iPartyPads are unique multicolored post notes and more than 130 backgrounds included and users can take pics and use as backgrounds. The iPartyPad multimedia image editor can be used to create sharable art drawings, postit notes, dooglegrams or scribblegrams.

iPartyGramPro

iPartyPads can be shared/posted to Twitter, Linkedin Facebook or email.

 

The app is designed to help party hosts create invitations, send invitations and involve party VIPs and guests seeking easy-rapid ways to send invitations, receive guests and allow guests and VIPs to either view party pics and videos or VIPs to add pics to the party.

Here is an independent review of iPartygram. “With a variety of different background photos and images available through the app, you can choose an image that suits the theme or occasion of your party. You can add all the information you need to the party invitation and it’s the perfect opportunity to let guests know if the party has a certain dress code, theme, or whether they should bring their own drinks. You can also use the “Notes” and “Reminders” sections to give guests a date by which they should RSVP, saving you the hassle of having to chase people up later.

iPartyGramPro

When sending invitations to guests, you can select the box marked “VIP” if you want that guest to be able to upload their own photos to the party section within iPartyGram.

You can either send the invitation to each guest individually with your own customized message, or send the same PDF file to multiple people. To keep each individual’s email address private, enter your own email address in the “To:” field, then enter the other recipients’ addresses in the “BCC:” field. That way, when guests receive the invitations, they only see your email address, and other guests’ emails stay hidden. The graphic format means that guests can easily print out and take the invitation with them to the party, so they have all the details on hand.

When guests receive their invitations, it contains a unique ID number. To access the party details, all they have to do is download the iPartyGram app or log on to the website, and enter the ID number in the Guest Login section, then they can access the party details and, if they are VIP guests, upload their own photos.

iPartyGram is a versatile app that makes the party planning process simple, quick, and cost-effective. It allows you to spend less time on practical tasks, like sending invitations, leaving you with more time to focus on the big event.”

iPartygram also provides tutorials, webseminars, blog and newsletter to have more fun at parties and improve use of iPartygram and other ideas on parties, party planning, party management, social media practices and simply better parties.

iPartyGramPro

iPartygram is part of a suite of communications and collaboration tools designed to improved personal time management and customer communications including iFlipTips, ScribbleGrams, Pictagrams, iCompactMirror and iMakeupMirror and others.

Company

iFlipTips http://ifliptips.com, iPartyGrams http://ipartygrams.com along with CrossPinPoints and other cloud online solutions from TECHtionary (http://techtionary.com). Other iPhone/iPad apps include iPartyGrams, iMakeupMirror, iCompactMirror and Pictagrams all available on iTunes.

Techtionary is the developer of iPhone/iPad apps including iPartygrams, iFlipTips http://ifliptips.com – flip/flashcard study app with calendar and stickynotes, iPartygram http://ipartygram.com – party/event planning and pic post app with calendar and sticky notes, iMakeupMirror-iCompactMirror iPhone4 personal makeup mirror app and Pictagrams – picture post app. In addition, Techtionary developed CrossPinPoints, iSportsCal, iComcal and iREcal are all integrated MARCOM-marketing communications solutions designed for small to large business manage small to large marketing efforts. Twitter accounts include @beautyapps, @techtionary and others. Techtionary also businesses maximize their social media marketing and teaches professional development courses in social media which are approved by the Colorado Supreme Court for attorneys and Colorado DORA for real estate professionals via Social Business College http://socialbusinesscollege.com/. Additional sites include: http://imakeupmodel.com, http://crosspinpoints.com, http://techtionary.com and many others.

Thomas B. Cross is the creator of unique marketing communications and an avid social media expert focusing primarily on Twitter with @techtionary https://twitter.com/#!/techtionary and @beautyapps account https://twitter.com/#!/BeautyApps, CrossTalk blog, Linkedin and CrossPinPoints (online marketing communications solution). He posts daily to Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and CrossTalk blog. He assists businesses maximize their social media marketing and teaches professional development courses in social media which are approved by the Colorado Supreme Court for attorneys and Colorado DORA for real estate professionals via Social Business College http://socialbusinesscollege.com/.

Contact & Social Media

Contact: Tom Cross

Email: cross@gocross.com

Website: http://ipartygrams.com

Twitter: @techtionary & @beautyapps

Phone: 303-594-1694

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Wedding Planning-Planner Quicklist – Check & Re-Check the Details

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Essential Wedding Planning Shortlist

Planning a wedding is a huge endeavor, and it’s easy to get so caught up in the planning process that you find it difficult to enjoy the big day itself. One of the key ways you can organize your wedding planning to minimize your stress level is to create a wedding planning checklist. Using this checklist, you can make sure you get everything done on time, and with good preparation, so on the day of the wedding, you can focus on each other.

One year to nine months before

  1. Start a wedding folder - This is particularly useful if you’re not sure what you want to do for your wedding yet, as you can gather clippings, notes and pictures for inspiration.
  2. Decide on a budget – Your budget will determine what kind of venue you hire, and how many guests you invite. Many people get into debt paying for their wedding day, so think carefully about how much you can afford.
  3. Create a guest list – This includes choosing the key roles like your best man and maid of honor.
  4. Hire a planner – If you have the budget and want someone else to take charge of the details, an event planner can help alleviate some of the stress that goes with organizing a wedding.
  5. Make a date and reserve a venue – If you want to keep costs low, choose the same venue for the ceremony and reception, and otherwise remember to plan time for the journey between the two locations.

Six to nine months before

  1. Hire any third-party contractors – This includes caterers, photographers, transportation, florists and entertainment, such as a band.
  2. Decide on and purchase a wedding dress - Remember that you will need to get fittings, and you should make the final fitting as close to your wedding date as possible.
  3. Research guest accommodation – If some of your guests will need somewhere to stay overnight, now is the time to start researching and reserving blocks of rooms to ensure they are guaranteed overnight accommodation.
  4. Create a gift list – If you’re using a registry service, this is a good time to set up and start adding items.
  5. Send save-the-date cards – If you’re skipping save-the-date cards and just sending invitations, you can also do this now. Letting people know the date well in advance gives them enough time to make the necessary arrangements to come.

Three to five months before

  1. Plan the rehearsal dinner – You will also need to plan the menu to account for guests with dietary requirements.
  2. Order the cake – Choose your baker carefully; it’s worth sampling several different services before deciding so you can make sure you’re getting exactly what you want, and at a good price.
  3. Plan the wedding music – Doing this in advance is especially helpful if you’re hiring an external DJ.
  4. Finalize the menu – You know who your caterer is, and you can now agree on what the final menu will be.
  5. Organize favors – If you’re giving guests wedding favors, these can easily slip under the radar until the last minute, so plan and purchase them now to avoid stress closer to the time.
  6. Plan the day’s schedule – This includes who is giving speeches, and what will happen at the reception. You can also send this schedule to your venues so they can make plans.
  7. Purchase your rings – This might seem like a simple task, but you will need to leave time in case you want engraving, or need the rings resized.
  8. Send invitations – You can send free invitations via email using the iPartyGram app. Remember to include an RSVP date to encourage guests to respond as soon as possible.

One month before

  1. Get a marriage license – Do this in advance to leave room for any delays.
  2. Chase guests who haven’t RSVPed
  3. Pay vendors – Most vendors will require complete payment in advance of the day, so remember to pay their invoice in full to avoid any unnecessary stress over the next few weeks.
  4. Create a seating plan – If you haven’t done so already, create a seating plan and send it to the venues.

The week before

  1. Delegate tasks to close friends and family - Take some of the heat off by asking others to carry out small tasks, for example liaising with contractors on the day.
  2. Send a final guest list to the venue – Last minute changes are inevitable, but you should send the final list of attendees at least 72 hours in advance.
  3. Double-check arrival times with the venues and contractors.

Party Cleanup Tips from iPartygrams

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Many people spend weeks planning a party, only to trip up when it comes to the post-party cleanup. Cleaning up after a party can be a long and unpleasant process. Usually, you feel tired, and the task might seem daunting, but with a little forward planning and some common sense, you can complete the post-party cleanup with minimum fuss in minimal time.

1 – Get help

Ask one or more party guests in advance to stay behind and help with the cleanup. The more people help to tidy up after the party, the quicker the job will be done. You can speed up the process further by designating certain tasks to certain people.

2 – Work systematically

Tackle one thing at a time, for example clean away drink-related items, then food, then deal with dirty linens. Cleaning up one thing at a time will focus your efforts, and help you feel like you’ve achieved more than trying to clean everything at once.

3 – Make space

If you’re providing guess with food and suspect you will have left-overs, make space in your fridge before the party starts so you don’t have to worry about reorganizing storage once the party is underway or is over.

4 – Clean as you go

Start the cleanup process as the party begins winding down. You don’t have to bring out the vacuum, but you can start cleaning away glasses, cutlery and other debris to make your job easier once everyone has left.

5 – Create a designated trash area

Create a designated trash area and tell guests where it is when they arrive. People are less likely to leave their trash lying around if they know where the garbage is.

6 – Clean smart

Double or triple-line the garbage can so that as one bag gets filled, you simply take it out and start filling the next. This streamlines the cleaning process and helps you avoid an overflowing trash can during the party. Once your guests have left and the cleanup operation has properly begun, take a liner with you to the rubbish, instead of bringing rubbish out to the trash can.

7 – Prepare cleaning materials before the party

Cleaning before a party might sound counter-intuitive (after all, aren’t your guests just going to come in and create a mess again?), however it can really help your post-party cleanup operation. Make sure the sink and dishwasher are clear of any items and ready to load. You should also make sure your trash can and recycling box is empty, so you minimize the amount of rubbish you have to deal with afterwards.

8 – Help yourself

Purchasing disposable dinnerware for your party guests, such as paper plates and plastic cutlery, minimizes the risk of your own crockery being broken. It also make the cleanup operation a lot smoother, as you can just throw away used items, without having to deal with washing up.

9 Use nature

Before you start cleaning, open a few windows or light some candles to get rid of the smell of food, drink and guests. You should also take all trash bags outside instead of leaving them in your house or apartment overnight, as they will cause an odor in your home.

10 – Clean safely

If you plan to keep the left-overs for yourself and your family, refrigerate them as soon as possible. They’ve been sitting in a party room for a few hours, so the longer you leave them; the more hazardous they could be to eat.

 

Party Planing Ideas Sponsored by iPartygram.com

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Ideas for party planning

Parties cover a huge range of events and celebrations, and if you’ve been tasked with planning one, you might be wondering where to start. As well as birthdays, national holidays, corporate events and life changes, you might want to throw a party just to see friends.

When looking for party planning ideas, the best place to start is to think about the nature of the event. The kind of party will depend on what you’re celebrating, as well as the age and the background of the attendees. For example, a kids’ party will be very different from an office Christmas party, which in turn will be very different from a student housewarming party. Each different party will require different entertainment, a different venue, possibly even different food.

Key areas to consider when trying to think of ideas for party planning include:

  • Guests
  • Budget
  • Venue
  • Food
  • Entertainment

You also need to consider whether you’re going to ask other people to help out with the preparations or during the event itself. Each factor influences at least one other – for example, the number of guests you want to invite to the party will dictate the size of venue you need. The food and entertainment will depend on the number of guests, and whether these things are provided by the venue. Every area will be influenced by your budget.

Within each area, you have important decisions to make. If you want to provide food at the party, you need to plan whether it will be home-cooked, bought in advance from a store, or provided especially by professional caterers.

Entertainment is also important, and it’s usually a good idea to provide a range of entertainment that will suit as many guests as possible. This might include providing music, and lighting, as well as party games. For kids’ parties, you might want to consider hiring external child entertainers or equipment like a bouncy castle.

If you’re struggling to find ideas for party planning, try theming the party to a certain occasion. For example, if you’re planning a birthday party, try theming it to the decade the person celebrating their birthday was born. Parties celebrating national holidays or events are also easy to theme. Theming a party can make it easier to select food and entertainment, and can also provide a more interactive experience for guests, especially if costumes are involved.

If you plan to host a party with costumes, or you want guests to bring food, drinks or other items, you need to give them enough notice so they can organize this themselves. Sending out reminders or notes about the party is best done with the invitations so that people have plenty of time to plan what they are going to wear or bring, and they are less likely to forget.

Depending on the event, you might want to provide your guests with something to thank them for coming to the party. Although this is something you might send out after the party, it’s still an important factor in the party planning process and needs to be organized alongside the event itself. Ideas for guests include thank-you notes, which you can send after the event, or party favors, which you can prepare in advance and hand out during the event.

Whatever kind of party you throw, forward planning and good organization are the key to a successful event. If you spend time on the event in advance, everything will come together on the evening, leaving you free to enjoy the party alongside the other guests.

College Tutoring & Business Coaching Idea Tracking Using iFlipTips – Q&A Tool, Organizer & Session Notetaker-Recorder

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iFlipTips is a new study and training app for iPhone and iPad from TECHtionary. Useful for students, facilitators, and trainers, this app is invaluable for professionals in a coaching role. Not only can iFlipTips help you facilitate coaching sessions, but it can also help you record and organize client records, and send them notes of what you discussed afterwards.

Whether you’re engaged in business or life coaching, iFlipTips can help you prepare and record successful sessions. As a note-taking app, it allows you to create flashcards containing bite-sized pieces of information using different mediums.

The app is divided into two sections: iTips-Ideas Cards, which help you create training notes, and iFlipCards, which use a question and answer format. Each iTips-Ideas card or iFlipCard contains a box for text, an image, an audio recording and a video clip. Using different mediums, you can create notes for clients using a format that suits their learning style, and that they feel most comfortable with.

Some clients might prefer brief text notes covering only the most important points of the session, while others might prefer receiving audio or video recordings of key moments, or even the whole meeting. By sending them notes in different formats, you could help speed up their learning process, and increase the rate at which they retain information you discuss during their sessions.

iFlipTips’ folders system helps you organize your notes in a way that enables you to store and retrieve them efficiently. The folders are fully customizable, so you can create a filing system that suits your way of working. Potential methods of organizing your notes include using main folders as a calendar system, creating a separate folder for each week or month, then sub-folders for individual clients you will see within that time period. Ordering the folders in this way helps you organize session material in advance, and plan when you need to conduct mid-contract evaluations and reviews.

Alternatively, you can use the folders to organize notes and prompts structured around your methodology or framework. For example, if you use the GROW method, you could create a main folder for each separate session, with separate sub-folders containing prompts for each step of the framework detailed on individual iTips-Ideas cards. This can help remind you of useful questions at key moments in the session, and to stick to a boundaried framework. You could also consider organizing prompt cards by issue, creating separate folders for motivation, procrastination, indecisiveness, and so on, so you can reference relevant questions depending on what struggles your client raises during a session.

While iTips-Ideas cards can be helpful for making general notes about sessions, you can use iFlipCards to create questions and answers around key issues for your client. For example, you can prepare sets of questions before a session, then record the client’s responses during your meeting using brief text notes, or through the audio or video functions. This can be helpful discussion material during the session, and you can also share the notes and clips with the client via email afterwards, giving them material they can use for reflection in between sessions.

Reputation Management: Business Warfare – Top 5 Steps to Respond to and Diffuse Negative Comments and Attacks

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 Business Warfare – Top 5 Steps to Respond to and Diffuse Negative Comments and Attacks 
As a midsized business, it’s always nice to receive positive comments and feedback so you know what you’re doing right. But criticism and negative feedback are just as useful, sometimes even more so. If you can take a step back and avoid taking negative comments personally, they can also serve as a guide toward greater business success. Being on the receiving end of unpleasant feedback or even insults and attacks can turn out to be the catalyst that helps you build your business. To use them in the most effective manner, follow these five steps for responding to negative comments and diffusing insults and attacks.
  1. Be Quick to Respond. According to a study conducted by Cone, a Boston communications and strategies agency, 80 percent of all consumers opted not to purchase from or frequent a business due to negative feedback they read on the internet. Review sites such as Angie’s List and Yelp have the power to impact your business positively or negatively depending on the reviews left there by customers. Although you might not be able to stop a bad review, you can respond quickly to avoid it escalating and damaging your business in the process.
  2. Be Personable and Professional. Respond to negative feedback in a personable and professional manner. Introduce yourself and your title, whether you’re responding online or in-person. Rather than making excuses, acknowledge that you appreciate the person’s words and will convey them to the rest of the team.
  3. Refrain From Defensive Behavior. When responding to a dissatisfied customer or bad online review, refrain from comments made out of anger or defensiveness. Stooping low in your response only makes the company look worse and may cause the situation to escalate.
  4. Listen and Take Action. New Jersey-based marketing expert JC Dawkins told Entrepreneur.com that she and her husband decided not to try a new restaurant in the area based upon a horrible review she read online…one that had been left unanswered by the owners. Whether the negative review was warranted or it was left by someone who’s being insulting and attacking for no reason, it’s important to listen and take action to avoid a repeat situation. Ask yourself if there’s a kernel of truth in what’s being said. If so, how can you change things for the better?
  5. Follow Up. Whenever bad reviews or negative feedback prompt you to make changes in your business it’s important to follow up with the customer to let them know. This gesture of good faith can be the deciding factor that converts an unhappy customer to a happy and loyal one. Take the time to post a follow-up comment or contact the customer via email, by phone or through the mail.

The perceived value of your products and services can decrease significantly based solely upon negative reviews. By responding promptly and in a professional manner, you can diffuse bad reviews and negative comments and turn them into business-building opportunities. Although negative feedback can impact your business, it won’t cause as much damage as your lack of response.  

Following these steps shows that you care about your business and how you can best serve your customers.

Business & College Presentation Development and Improving Presentation Skills Using iFlipTips

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Good presentation skills are crucial. We use them in our careers and our personal lives, and utilize these skills even when we might not realize it. Developing your onsite and online (webinar) presentation skills can have a positive impact on many different areas of your life and, for that reason; it’s beneficial to improve your presentation skills, even if public speaking isn’t a key part of your job role right now.

iFlipTips is a study and training app for iPad and iPhone that revolutionizes the way we deliver and absorb information. As well as being an invaluable tool for students of all subjects, iFlipTips can also help you when you’re teaching yourself new skills. The app avoids the traditional text-based learning style, and instead focuses on providing you with a variety of tools to help you create flashcards that increase your learning speed and help you retain and recall more information in less time.

The iFlipTips app is divided into two sections: iTips-Ideas cards and iFlipCards. Each card contains four different formats: text, image, audio, and video, so you can record and store information using different mediums. When studying and improving your presentation skills, you can use these different formats to learn new skills more efficiently.

If you’re working to improve your presentation skills, the best place to start is to evaluate where you are at the moment. iFlipTips helps you do this, as you can record yourself giving a staged or real presentation using the audio and video functions. Doing this can help you identify and improve aspects of your presentation, such as your body language and tone of voice.

The ability to record videos and audio clips means you can also capture snippets of public speakers and presenters you admire, and use the recordings to compare their style to your own practice sessions. Watching other successful public speakers, you can identify what you enjoy about their delivery, and attempt to reproduce that in your own presentations.

As you develop your skills, recording yourself can also help you prepare for live public speaking engagements. Thorough preparation helps you gain confidence in your ability to give an engaging and interesting presentation. Practice is the key to success, and using the iFlipTips video function, you can simulate what it feels like to have a live audience.

The text function can help you make key notes about presenting skills, for example that you should never start with an apology unless you’ve made an error, and that you should always credit the source of quotes you use. By saving these “notes” in ordered folders, you can easily refer back to them later to remind yourself of key messages and tips.

As well as helping you improve your presentation skills, you can also use iFlipTips to keep you on track during presentations. Use iTips-Ideas cards to outline the structure of your presentation, and record key quotes and facts you want to remember in the text box. If you want to, you can also share your notes with others via email, Facebook or Twitter directly through the app.

If you plan to include a question and answer session at the end of a presentation, the iFlipCards can help you prepare. Create a separate “question” card for each question you anticipate being asked, and then create an ideal response on the “answer” card. Avoid memory blanks and feelings of panic, and instead enjoy confidence in knowing that you’ve prepared as thoroughly as you can.