The New Year always brings with it the resolve to improve the way one works, to make things more professional, more efficient, or just plain easier. And for many of us, this means an upgrade in technology. We put out a call for new and improved technologies to help the event planner, and we were inundated by good ideas. Many of these ideas are new takes or improvements on existing ideas, and any one of them could be a boon, especially to event planners looking to handle large events or complex problems. One or two may well find their way onto your 2007 shopping list.