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4 Shortcuts to Keep Your Audience from Zoning Out

Smart Meetings

But the truth is, audiences were tuning out long before we ever started upgrading our work from home setups. I’ve interviewed enough people to know that corporate presentations are too often bloated, meandering content dumps on our audiences. Ask what moves your audience to action and build your presentation around that.

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The New Language of Events Spoken by Today’s Audiences

Convene by PCMA

Meeting professionals who are looking to make their events more appealing to next-generation attendees might consider making a simple shift: Use words to describe your events that resonate with your target audiences. For those respondents, “learning” or “content” resonates more than “education,” he said. Those will shift.

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Higher Education Conferences: The #1 Guide to Education Events in 2024

Bizzaboo

Explore dozens of must-attend higher education and general education events in 2024, including conferences for higher education, education administration, education management, and education tech. Education conferences in 2024 will take a new approach with these major shifts in mind.

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Six Effective Tips To Improve Audience Engagement At Live Events

Endless Events

How to improve audience engagement? 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. Engaged audience members participate more, learn more, and are happier.

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DMA West: Going Viral, What’s Trending and Crisis Communication

Smart Meetings

After a year marked by fire, flood and tragedy , the overall tone of Destination Marketing Association of the West ’s Education Summit 2018 was light, inspiring—even funny. Step 1: Match your audience, content and call to action. Crisis Communication. Reward them. Step 6: Don’t lose your momentum.

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Event Communication that Cuts Through the Clutter

MeetingsNet

At the IMEX America show in Las Vegas in early November, Greg Bogue, enterprise vice president of brand, experience, and innovation systems for Maritz Global Events, cited those five attributes of effective communication with potential event attendees. Here’s why each element produces effective attendee-focused communications: Easy.

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Lean into Virtual Experiences (with AI!) in a Leaner Streaming Landscape

Smart Meetings

Read More: 4 Zoom Alternatives to Give Virtual Attendees the Freedom They Crave More than $1 billion of that capital went to Hopin, a company that was largely acquired last year at a fraction of its previous $7 billion valuation by RingCentral , a public cloud-based communications company that put down roots in 1999.

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