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Music Video: Shot on iPhone 4

Read a great article today that highlights the video capability of the iPhone 4. While I am still waiting for the iPhone to be released on Verizon, I can certainly enjoy these great music videos.

National Small Business Week

Decibel Management was selected as the event producer for the 2011 National Small Business Week meetings and events in Washington, DC.

Realistic CGI

We do our best to keep on top of current trends in the industry. CGI is one that is constantly making improvements, but always seems to stay a touch away from reality. Thanks to Alex Roman (of The Third and The Seventh Fame) for the

How to Watch a DVD in the Front Lounge

This great insight to life on the road comes from our friends at This Gig Sucks. It is a very accurate description of every mobile coach I have ever been on.

Linda McMahon Election Night Press

We had a ton of media for election night here in CT. Here you can see Christiane Amanpour doing her live standups throughout the evening.

DECIBEL EVENT MANAGEMENT

Decibel Event Management is an event management and production firm based in Washington D.C. with additional offices in Raleigh, North Carolina and Houston, Texas. Our reach and our talents however, are boundless. Our clients and work includes presidential events, federal government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, high-end corporate events, massive trade shows, theater events, and countless brand activations. As the go-to event management firm in D.C. we offer all of our clients the confidence and peace of mind that any event large or small is in the best hands.

Are you looking for an event production team to bring your ideas to life? We are visual storytellers, and our team can help you tell your story. End of story.

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💻 VIRTUAL. It’s a common new buzzword in the

💻 VIRTUAL. It’s a common new buzzword in the #eventprof world, and it looks like it’s here to stay for a while. Our team is hard at work gearing up for the 20th installment of the Library of Congress #NationalBookFestival later this month, and you guessed it - it’s VIRTUAL. Find out more by clicking the Link in Bio. As everyone in the industry has found over the last 6 months, implementing a large-scale #virtualevent like this comes with its own unique challenges, and we’re happy to overcome them because as you know, yeah, we can handle that. This is a #throwbackthursday pic of us live-streaming @stephenking at the 2016 #NatBookFest, a skill that will come in very handy for us at this year's event. Stay tuned, #eventprofs this is gonna be special!

Question for all of the A1’s in our network: Wo

Question for all of the A1’s in our network: Would you mic up Perseverance yourself, or make the A2 do it? Wondering what the heck we are talking about? NASA recently sent its latest rover to the Red Planet to search for life or something. While we’re sure that’s probably a worthwhile endeavor, we thought our audio engineers and event techs would be most interested in another component of its mission: It is there to record the sounds of the Martian world. We’re no rocket scientists, but since it’s not scheduled to get there for another 6 months, (even though it’s traveling at 24,600 MPH) we decided to create a playlist for its road trip there. The Spotify playlist can be accessed by clicking on the link in our bio, or directly in our “Playlists,” Highlight.

Lollapalooza said 🖕to COVID-19 and 🤘to music

Lollapalooza said 🖕to COVID-19 and 🤘to music. See how they managed to make it unique and keep their Chicago home a part of their virtual venue. Check out the link in our bio to read on!

We didn’t know it at the time, but our last LIVE

We didn’t know it at the time, but our last LIVE event was also our first VIRTUAL event of the COVID-era, as we brought people together over the Internet from Davidson, NC; Columbia, SC; Bloomington, MN; Brussels, Belgium; and Bangalore, India. There are a lot of online virtual platforms out there, but none can compete with a full production studio like the one we built out here. The good news is, the technology exists to do this in today’s social-distancing way. Every person you see here can operate remotely. (Just imagine the the cabling between them is really, REALLY long.) This is the difference between what you see on your everyday virtual meetings, and what you see on network news. This is absolutely possible right now. At this point, anyone making excuses just isn’t looking hard enough. Brands can still get their message out, and attendees/fans/customers are all still there waiting for anything. Don’t be left behind.

Friday, our team wrapped Principal Photography for

Friday, our team wrapped Principal Photography for one of our major upcoming events. We can not be more proud of our team at Decibel Event Management, as well as the extended producers, technicians, and additional support crew for their efforts on this. Congrats to each and every member of the production. This effort included more than 50 separate cloud studio recordings over three weeks, to be added to another 30 recordings direct from our clients multi-media team. This effort hosted over 115 individuals as on-screen talent, not including staff, producers, agents, session hosts and moderators all hosted from home, in-platform. Total ISO records: in excess of 160+. Now we are on to post production in advance of building out an entire virtual environment. From our experience over the last six months in this cloud-based environment, we have learned that while virtual and work-from-home sounds quick and easy, it is anything but. It presents more challenges than ever before, and encourages us all to be more resilient, patient, understanding and approach each and every day with just a bit more grace than anyone else. Prior to the recording, we engage our producer team to discuss with each on-camera talent (or their team) to get them ready. This is what we feel is a huge bonus and differentiator for our team. Our producers look at their lighting, camera angle, mic, available equipment, etc and get them set up and ready for their recording. We encourage each presenter to do this ahead of time so we can make adjustments, work with their home environment and get everything tops for when they are ready to go to the live studio. Many times we do this through a virtual greenroom (Zoom, Teams, WebEx, etc) and then when they are ready we send them to the cloud studio.  This workflow is constantly refined and improved. I anticipate the standard complement of videoconferencing will continue to improve over the next 6-12 months and we may find Zoom recordings are sufficient. Until then, we will keep at our process. As always we stand here to assist - please reach out with questions, comments or suggestions. We look forward to working with you!

Congrats to the production team at Decibel Event M

Congrats to the production team at Decibel Event Management on a job well done! Our team just wrapped production on a Global Virtual Conference for one of our Fortune 500 clients. They chose not to cancel, but to use technology to get their message out to their executive teams across the world, and in doing so, continued to be an industry leader in their space. It’s a great example of how companies can use these new virtual event environments and get their message out, rather than play it safe and stay quiet. There are a lot of virtual platforms to choose from, and this client decided to stay with their in-house CISCO platform with Intrado. Our production team worked seamlessly with the CISCO production manager to develop a set of broadcast-centric pre-sets. While we didn’t have an E2 or Spyder, we were able to replicate a similar workflow through these pre-sets to give us the opportunity to have a more refined production all around. We were also able to employ live polling with immediate results, PowerPoints, video rolls, as well as live Q&A with multiple participants. The team was able to produce this virtually with us across the US - split between DC, Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina and California. That doesn’t include the talent that was connected from additional locations and the viewers in multiple countries. We also don’t think we should sugar coat the work that goes into virtual productions, either. Everything takes longer than expected. Rehearsals… tech… Everything. Also, each and every guest becomes a technician on our team as they are working their own gear, Internet, camera and lighting. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it, and we’re gonna continue to improve this process and undoubtedly get more seamless as we go.

Hey there, job seeker. We're a DC-area event mana

Hey there, job seeker. We're a DC-area event management and production agency looking for a part-time social media specialist to handle our social content, accounts and strategy, as well as keep up with SEO, paid ads and general updates to our website. We also have an active development lab where we are exploring various formats (virtual, hybrid, etc), new-style associations, various R&D builds and the like. Initial focus will be developing our overall social communication strategy, and then actually being able to execute it. It'll be up to you to develop the strategy across all social platforms, discover, choose and write up the best posts, seek out event-related content and manage ads in any given week and across a range of categories, plus curate and edit a selection of blog content. Who we're looking for:
You like variety, but you're not a flake. The thought of doing the same thing every day makes you shudder a little. Except like, showing up for work. You do that with astonishing regularity. You're snarky, yet personable. We're not looking to make yet another event management post about COVID. We want our content to have a little bite to it, but that bite should be tempered with a strong streak of positivity. • You're reasonably social • You get shit done on your own steam • You're bothered by unnecessary complexity • You’ve made your stamp on the social interwebs • Oh yeah, and you write What we offer: Lots of freedom and flexibility, reasonable pay, and a boss that's on your team. In? Talk to us.
David Sonntag
david@decibelmanagement.com FOR MORE DETAILS, PLEASE CHECK OUT THE LINK IN OUR BIO.

This one’s for the event peeps among us. Looki

This one’s for the event peeps among us. Looking for a great speaker? Meet Eric Stuart. An ex British RAF officer and Supervisor in the Metropolitan Police for 17 of his 33 years with firearms, helicopter and covert deployments, he is an excellent motivator and lecturer focused on crowd modeling and safety. We know because we’ve attended a two-day course with him and it felt like 5 minutes. He’s incredibly interesting, and brings a wealth of experience and stories that will make you see your role as an event professional in a whole new light. Eric is the owner of Gentian Events Limited, established in 2009 to enhance public safety at events of all shapes and sizes, working at and advising those who deliver them. Contact him directly at GentianEvents.com

Looking back at some of our favorite events, we fo

Looking back at some of our favorite events, we found this photo of our team at the 2016 Library of Congress National Book Festival in the Washington National Convention Center. With the 2020 National Book Festival going virtual, our team is once again charging forward, but in a new and exciting way. Can’t wait to share the details soon.

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