Top tips for a compulsive planner

As someone who loves the research involved in a trip - regularly checking for updates to the reviews of my hotel on Trip Advisor, planning my wardrobe around the Weather Channel (what does one pack for 'damaging winds and isolated tornadoes'?) and even previewing what in-flight movies will be available - finding a blog post from a fellow delegate (and Kidscreen veteran) which helps this particular addiction has been invaluable.

So thank you, Angela Salt from Fun Crew for your fantastic insights!

Editor's note

A little heads-up for anyone about to take a walk down Blog Lane to some of the older posts in here.  Quite a few of the links are dead now - symbolic of the fast-paced, hurly-burly of the new media life? - so please don't be too disappointed if you can't source someone's biog or a long-gone dot.com site.

Oh, hai!

It's been a while since I've been on here (only five or so years...) but, in advance of Kidscreen 2013 in New York, I thought I'd dust this blog down and post a few bits and pieces before the summit, as well as reporting back during it.

So, it's a week to go before I head over to Manhattan and, as any good conference-attender knows, it's about this time when you check out the website to see who else is coming so you can plan meetings, drinks, lunches and so on.

And I thought I really should share some of the more interesting titles in the Summit's delegate list.  All these are real, folks:

- Evangelist - Film, Animation and Gaming

- Executive in Charge of the Space

- Extraterrestrial Rights Manager

- Manager of TV Ra Tim Bum

- Partner and Channel Socialist

In amongst the CEOs, Directors and VPs, these are obviously the ones to seek out for some fun and jollity.