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Are you having a hard time coming up with a theme for your company's annual event? Do you want some fun, trivia-type stuff for your next newsletter? Have you spent way to much time surfing the net in search of special holidays and their origin?

Then you'll want to check out Chases's Calendar of Events.

I stumbled across this phenomenal resource a few years ago while helping a client's staff break out of the "same old, same old" mold on their employee events. After reading through the Calendar I suggested ways in which the group could build themes around some of the more unique days and we developed a really exciting calendar of events and fundraisers for the year, including a clean-out-your-desk day contest and an "I love chocolate" day (they also raised over $10,000 for the employee Christmas party, but I'll post about that at another time).

Until September, I was too cheap to fork out the $65 retail price but a much appreciated gift certificate to Barnes & Noble from a favorite client gave me the perfect excuse. I bought the 2006 edition and have already used it several times. It came with a searchable cd and an installer so I can load the entire Calendar onto my hard drive. Now I can "carry" the Calendar with me wherever I go - now that's going to come in handy during a few client meetings coming up (and makes it worth a lot more than $65).

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