<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>The CerimoniereWeb blog</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/</link><description>What is new in CerimoniereWeb month by month, plus practical advice for anyone who organises official ceremonies.</description><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Clearing the guest list in one step, and saving without errors</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-09-clearing-the-guest-list/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-09-clearing-the-guest-list/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Remove from the seating plan only the names that came from invitations and keep those added by hand. And saving after a reload no longer gets stuck.</description></item><item><title>Five languages, at the entrance and on the reply page too</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-09-five-languages/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-09-five-languages/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Catalan joins Italian, English, Spanish and German. And the check-in app and the invitation reply page now speak all five languages as well.</description></item><item><title>The full Italian order of precedence, already in the program</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-09-the-full-italian-decree/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-09-the-full-italian-decree/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>From 3.8.0 new installations include the full Italian order of precedence of 14 April 2006 and 97 organisations in the registry. Stronger passwords.</description></item><item><title>An external security review, and what we fixed</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-08-security-review/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-08-security-review/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>In August CerimoniereWeb was examined by outside specialists. The fixes ship with 3.7.6, and nothing changes in everyday use.</description></item><item><title>Accompanying guests sit next to the person they came with</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-07-companions-sit-together/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-07-companions-sit-together/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Automatic seating now puts an accompanying guest beside the invited guest, even when there are several. And at the end you see the cases to check.</description></item><item><title>The lists on the last day</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-06-last-day-lists/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-06-last-day-lists/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>Actual attendance hardly ever matches the confirmations. Two habits that keep the hall in order over the last twenty-four hours.</description></item><item><title>CerimoniereWeb warns you first</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-04-cerimoniereweb-warns-you-first/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-04-cerimoniereweb-warns-you-first/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>A warning five minutes before your session expires, a list of appointments that have ended or are about to, and better keyboard support.</description></item><item><title>A new look for check-in, and printouts back in order</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-03-check-in-and-printouts/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-03-check-in-and-printouts/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Check-in shows the guest's photo and can follow several ceremonies at once. Rebuilt place cards and lists, and the features announced last winter.</description></item><item><title>Representation: the representative does not take the principal's seat</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-02-representation/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-02-representation/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>Whoever attends in a dignitary's place rarely inherits their rank. What the Italian, Spanish and French rules say, and why to record it early.</description></item><item><title>Invitations with a deadline, users with an end date</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-01-reply-deadlines-and-user-end-dates/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2026-01-reply-deadlines-and-user-end-dates/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Soon you will be able to set a closing date for replies, and give a colleague access only for as long as you need them.</description></item><item><title>Coming soon: a live view of the hall during the ceremony</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-12-the-live-hall/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-12-the-live-hall/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>We are preparing a view of the seating plan that updates as guests come in, and lists that show companions, representatives and reply dates.</description></item><item><title>Double centre and aisle: the second dignitary on the correct side</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-10-double-centre-and-aisle/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-10-double-centre-and-aisle/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>When an aisle splits the front row, the second dignitary must sit on the correct side of it. Automatic seating now gets this right with a double centre.</description></item><item><title>Two checks before the autumn ceremonies</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-09-two-checks-before-autumn/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-09-two-checks-before-autumn/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>Autumn brings the opening of the academic year, commemorations and military ceremonies. Two things to check before the invitations go out.</description></item><item><title>Replying to an invitation, with accompanying guests and representatives</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-07-online-replies/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-07-online-replies/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>The invitation reply page has been rebuilt: besides accepting or declining, guests say who is coming with them or who will attend in their place.</description></item><item><title>The order of precedence: what it says and what it leaves to you</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-05-what-the-order-of-precedence-leaves-to-you/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-05-what-the-order-of-precedence-leaves-to-you/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>National orders and the Vienna Convention rank many office holders, but not all. The rest is left to the organiser, and that is where written rules help.</description></item><item><title>CerimoniereWeb speaks four languages</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-03-four-languages/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-03-four-languages/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>With version 3.0.0 the application can be used in Italian, English, Spanish and German. And protocol groups can be moved without rebuilding them.</description></item><item><title>The place of honour, and which side is right</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-01-the-place-of-honour/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2025-01-the-place-of-honour/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>Seat 2 goes to the right of the person seated, not the person looking. Obvious until you draw the plan, which is why the numbers come out reversed.</description></item><item><title>The ceremony dashboard</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2024-11-the-ceremony-dashboard/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2024-11-the-ceremony-dashboard/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>A first dashboard for the day of the ceremony: confirmed invitations, people expected, people arrived and how far along you are.</description></item><item><title>Several sites, shared rules</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2024-09-several-sites-shared-rules/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2024-09-several-sites-shared-rules/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>A headquarters and its regional offices run different ceremonies under the same rules. How to keep the rules aligned without mixing the data.</description></item><item><title>A list from Excel, pasted into the seating plan</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2024-05-paste-from-excel/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2024-05-paste-from-excel/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>A guest list prepared in Excel can be pasted straight into the seating plan's list. And the start date of an appointment is no longer required.</description></item><item><title>What to print the night before, and who gets it</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2024-01-what-to-print-the-night-before/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2024-01-what-to-print-the-night-before/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>The list for the ushers at the door, the list by seat, place cards and tent cards: four printouts for four different people in the hall.</description></item><item><title>Ceremonies beyond the reach of the network</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2023-07-where-the-network-does-not-reach/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2023-07-where-the-network-does-not-reach/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>A copy of CerimoniereWeb that runs on a computer with no Internet connection and then brings the work back to the server. Built for the Italian Navy.</description></item><item><title>Finding what you need, straight away</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2023-05-finding-things-faster/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2023-05-finding-things-faster/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Search finds text anywhere in a field, one user can hold several roles, and every button explains what it does.</description></item><item><title>Tags, messages to groups and import from file</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2023-02-tags-group-messages-import/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2023-02-tags-group-messages-import/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Free tags on people and offices, messages to whole groups of guests, and your existing registry imported from a file instead of retyped.</description></item><item><title>The last-minute guest</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2022-09-the-last-minute-guest/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2022-09-the-last-minute-guest/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>One dignitary confirms on the morning itself, another arrives with an unannounced plus-one. How to make room without redoing the hall.</description></item><item><title>Where to send an official invitation</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2022-03-where-to-send-an-official-invitation/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2022-03-where-to-send-an-official-invitation/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>To the office, almost always: the holder changes, the private office stays. And when an invitation is delivered by hand, record it all the same.</description></item><item><title>The confirmation call, even in the age of email</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2021-06-the-confirmation-call/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2021-06-the-confirmation-call/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>Online replies are not enough: senior guests often answer through their private office, by phone. How to organise calls to guests who have not replied.</description></item><item><title>Which office to print when someone holds more than one</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2021-02-which-office-to-print/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2021-02-which-office-to-print/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>Invited as chair of one body, seated as a board member of another. The place card shows the office they attend in, not the most senior one.</description></item><item><title>CerimoniereWeb in the cloud</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2020-09-cerimoniereweb-in-the-cloud/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2020-09-cerimoniereweb-in-the-cloud/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>CerimoniereWeb is now also available in the cloud, with no server on your premises. Each user manages their own password and can reset it by email.</description></item><item><title>Dividing the hall into sectors</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2020-01-dividing-the-hall-into-sectors/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2020-01-dividing-the-hall-into-sectors/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>Dignitaries, press, families, delegations: a hall divided into sectors reads at a glance, and the ushers make fewer mistakes.</description></item><item><title>Printed or handwritten: what an invitation says before it is read</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2019-11-printed-or-handwritten-salutation/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2019-11-printed-or-handwritten-salutation/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Protocol</category><description>Printed card, handwritten salutation, short note or informal email: the form of an invitation tells guests how much they matter to you.</description></item><item><title>Colour-coded sectors, attachments and hand-delivered invitations</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2019-10-colour-sectors-attachments-hand-delivery/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2019-10-colour-sectors-attachments-hand-delivery/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Named, coloured sectors in the hall, attachments and PDF invitations from a template, and a status for invitations delivered by hand.</description></item><item><title>The seating plan moves into the browser</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2019-06-the-seating-plan-in-the-browser/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2019-06-the-seating-plan-in-the-browser/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Draw the hall, number the seats alternating right and left, and let the plan fill by precedence. Then print place cards and seating lists.</description></item><item><title>Invitations, online replies and follow-up calls</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2019-04-invitations-replies-and-follow-up-calls/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2019-04-invitations-replies-and-follow-up-calls/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Email templates with each guest's details filled in, a one-click reply, and a screen for whoever phones the guests who have not answered.</description></item><item><title>Cerimoniere goes web</title><link>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2019-03-cerimoniere-goes-web/</link><guid>https://cerimoniale.it/en/blog/2019-03-cerimoniere-goes-web/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Product update</category><description>Registry, protocols and ceremonies in the browser, with one archive for the whole office, and invitations generated from the protocol branches you choose.</description></item></channel></rss>