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6 Tips for Keeping Attendees Tuned In During Your Online Events

Smart Meetings

While event organizers are getting good at planning in-person, hybrid and online events, booking the right speakers and keeping attendees engaged are still some of the biggest challenges. With online events especially, attendees can get distracted by looking at their phones or trying to multitask during presentations.

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Moderating Online Panels — Ideas and Resources

Conferences that Work

Last week I immensely enjoyed participating in a two-hour Zoom brain trust on moderating online panels. So good, it should be shared with a wider audience. 30 mins: Is panel prep different in the virtual world? Speaker recruiting? Tools and techniques for engaging the audience. 10 mins: How did that go?

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The Cost of Inaccessibility: Why Events Must Prioritize Accessibility for All Attendees

Smart Meetings

From an absence of diverse panel speakers to a lack of options for those visually or hearing impaired, events still aren’t catering to everyone. Lack of planning and understanding audience needs can hinder event attendances. It’s 2023, and we’re still talking about a lack of accessibility in the events industry. With over 1.8

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Six Effective Tips To Improve Audience Engagement At Live Events

Endless Events

How to improve audience engagement? Turn your event attendees into event participants. Try these six audience engagement techniques at your next event. The speaker drones on, reading from their notecards or plain white powerpoint slides. You can efficiently learn so much actually listening to the speaker.

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The Cost of Inaccessibility: Why Events Must Prioritize Accessibility for All Attendees

Smart Meetings

From an absence of diverse panel speakers to a lack of options for those visually or hearing impaired, events still aren’t catering to everyone. Lack of planning and understanding audience needs can hinder event attendances. It’s 2023, and we’re still talking about a lack of accessibility in the events industry. With over 1.8

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Controversial Speakers At Events: The Breakdown

Endless Events

The tea is hotter than ever today and all thanks to the topic of controversial speakers! This is why we decided to go ahead and touch upon the whole ordeal of controversial speakers at events. Speaking on what makes controversial speakers, Will tells us “you’re always going to p**s someone off. Who are they?

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What Event Attendees Want Now

Convene by PCMA

There’s encouraging news in the Freeman Trends Report: 2024 Attendee Intent and Behavior , released Tuesday, Jan. When Holsinger previewed the report during the session, “First Look: Exclusive Data on Attendee Motivators,” at PCMA Convening Leaders 2024 on Jan. What motivates them, what drives them?”

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