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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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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. Oddmund Braaten In a world that offers on-site, online and hybrid events, how is this even possible? Lack of planning and understanding audience needs can hinder event attendances.

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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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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. Oddmund Braaten In a world that offers on-site, online and hybrid events, how is this even possible? Lack of planning and understanding audience needs can hinder event attendances.

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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. It takes ages for the microphone to be passed from audience member to audience member while everyone waits in awkward silence for the next question.

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How to Harness the Lasting Power of Virtual Meetings

Smart Meetings

The extension of virtual content delivery methods creates a unique opportunity for planners with new methods to boost engagement among attendees regardless of their location. One of the root causes for virtual attendees feeling a loss of connection and interest is a lack of physical participation throughout the experience.

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Attendee Experience: 15 Ideas To Increase Event Engagement at Your Next Conference

Bizzaboo

As an event organizer, it can be disheartening when your efforts to increase event engagement fail to meet your goal or when your carefully planned conference falls short of delivering the audience experience you envisioned. Plus, event organizer priorities have shifted accordingly, and a staggering 45% now prioritize attendee engagement.

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