Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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. What are 1-2 of your online moderating pro tips? Tools and techniques for engaging the audience. Ensure your audience knows you care…AND your panelist knows you care.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Adding early morning running, yoga sessions or Tai Chi classes into conference agendas is becoming the norm. While separate training sessions are an excellent trend, exercise between and during conferences can be powerful additions. To connect with the audience and make the activity even more inclusive, take part in exercises yourself.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 15, 2018

As you know, conferences are the bread and butter of event planners. You plan so many conferences of a similar nature each year that it can be easy to get stale. But, just because conferences have a heavy business-focus, doesn’t mean they need to be (or should be) lifeless! Using projection for conference staging.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

One presenter at a recent conference made the mistake of scolding her audience to turn phones off and put them under their seats. She was met with groans; about a third of the audience left, and the rest ignored her command. The same phenomenon occurs during a conference or meeting. Ideally, these applications should: 1.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 30, 2021

After a promising but brief return to in-person-only events in the spring, the Delta and Omicron variants forced many event organizers to renavigate a hybrid event landscape to engage both digital and physical audiences. Even as their hybrid events remain a work in progress, many organizers now see their long-tail potential. KiKi L’Italien.

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Traveler's Q

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s digital age, having a successful event website is essential for maximizing your event’s online reach. Therefore, it is crucial to invest time and resources in creating a well-designed and informative event website that resonates with your target audience.

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Endless Events

APRIL 6, 2018

Mobile apps for conferences are becoming staples. Are you able to keep your audience’s private information secure before, during, and after the event? Are you able to keep your audience’s private information secure before, during, and after the event? Online security is an important aspect of events.

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Endless Events

MAY 25, 2018

If you want your event to create a sense of awe and wonder, you need to engage the senses of your audience. Offering unique food and drink choices is also a great way to delight often hungry audiences. PS: Looking to wow your audiences? InfoComm is a conference you do not want to miss. Event Pro Highlight: Will Curran.

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Meeting Tomorrow

MARCH 31, 2020

Planning an online event without thinking about audience engagement is like building a sailboat without material for the sails. Thoughtful, intentional engagement is one of the keys to making an online event effective and memorable. 4 Tools for Keeping Your Audience Engaged. Why are your attendees coming to the event?

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has published some useful lessons learned from organizing six online scientific meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online meetings improve access and attendance. Conferences are an important learning and support resource for early career scientists.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 3, 2020

How can we create great online breakout sessions? You attend a conference session on a topic that interests you. Whether a breakout session is in-person or online, the way for a leader or presenter to make it great is to: quickly uncover audience interests at the start of the session; and. Does this sound familiar?

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 8, 2024

Event branding is crucial in creating a distinctive and impactful identity for conferences and corporate events, including creating a theme or idea that matches the event’s goal, principles, and target audience. Event branding creates a unique and memorable conference or corporate event identity. What is Event Branding?

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I am designing an online memorial service, to be held later this month. So I decided to design and run an online memorial service. We can currently only hold such gatherings online. Designing an online memorial service — development. Most people have never attended an online memorial service before.

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2018

There are tips for B2B events, conferences and campus events. Audience engagement techniques meet AR and VR technology in this year’s InfoComm, and the Center Stage sessions are set to explore their interrelationships. Aside from AR and VR, other topics include wearables, man-machine interfaces, and online video.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Adding early morning running, yoga sessions or Tai Chi classes into conference agendas is becoming the norm. While separate training sessions are an excellent trend, exercise between and during conferences can be powerful additions. To connect with the audience and make the activity even more inclusive, take part in exercises yourself.

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Endless Events

MARCH 29, 2021

How can we bridge the gap between the virtual and the in-person audience? But we are getting ahead of ourselves – tune in and learn what else our lovely hosts have to say about hybrid audience engagement and interactions between the two audiences. You bring that in and you let the people who are online use that as well.

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Eventtia

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Online registration software is a cloud-based solution that allows organizers to manage the entire event registration process from start to finish. Professionals can use this solution to host a wide range of events, from retail workshops or fireside chats to large conferences and product launches. The short answer is “No.”

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Endless Events

MARCH 2, 2022

Perhaps one of the biggest perks this paradigm shift brings along is continuous audience engagement – one of the most talked-about pain points for event planners. With it comes the community model: an opportunity to stay connected with your audience, exhibitors, and sponsors throughout the entire year rather than just for several days.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.)

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 30, 2020

How can you support a community online during covid-19? Over the last few weeks I’ve run numerous online Zoom meetings for support groups and local, social, and professional communities. Breakout room functionality is essential for your online meeting platform. That’s what online breakout rooms are for.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Attending conferences is one of the best ways to stay ahead in the ever-changing marketing industry. We’ve compiled a list of 70+ marketing conferences, summits, and other events that focus on a wide range of topics, from SEO, to social media, to content marketing. DigiMarCon Southwest 2023 11/13/23 Phoenix, AZ Nov.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript! Here it is—enjoy!

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Organizations use event marketing to: Promote the brand to a larger audience. Get data insights into their target audience. It has become one of the world’s largest marketing conferences. After the event, they put all their content online on demand. But in 2020, the pandemic forced us to take our events online. .

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hybrid events—whether they are conferences, expos or training courses—are meetings that can be accessed in person at a physical location, or remotely via an online platform. Make audience input easy. Read More : How to Keep the C-level Engaged In-person and Online. Help participants connect with one another.

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Bizzaboo

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Audience engagement took on an entirely new meaning when virtual and hybrid events arrived during the pandemic. According to 19% of the 1,757 event organizers surveyed for our State of in-person B2B conferences report , increasing attendee engagement is the highest priority for their company as they plan their next conference.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 6, 2023

Asking for certain types of engagement from your audience can make the introverts in the room shrink into their seat cushions. But if you’re doing something like a conference, you can do a whole nice set of quick emails. In a recent online discussion, Kaiser asked the audience: “Would you be a dragon, or own a dragon?”

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Conferences that Work

JULY 20, 2020

What’s the best way to hold a discussion online? Online group discussions bring a new set of challenges. We have all experienced poorly facilitated online meetings, where people unilaterally turn on their microphones and speak away, colliding aurally with others and monopolizing the conversation.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 2, 2023

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. Actively engage with your target audience and ignite their excitement.

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Hotel Engine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Check out the 15 best leadership conferences for operations professionals to level up your business and perform better in your job. Business Agility Conference. ACUHO-I Business Operations Conference. International Conference On Business Operations, Research and Management. ILA Annual Global Conference. Collision.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Adding to my reports on new platforms providing online incarnations of traditional conference socials , here’s a review of online social platform Rally. First, if you don’t know about online social platforms, check out the introduction included in my earlier reviews of Gatherly and Yotribe.

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Endless Events

JUNE 6, 2018

Conference planning is well underway. You know that conference networking is important, but you’re not sure how to help your attendees make meaningful connections. This list shows ten different options and how each of them can be used to improve networking opportunities at conferences and large annual events.

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Bizzaboo

JUNE 15, 2022

To fortify your brand, strengthen your community, and develop even stronger relationships with your customers, you’ve finally decided to put on your inaugural user conference. But at the same time, user conferences are a massive undertaking, requiring a lot of planning and precision. What is a user conference? That’s great news!

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Eventtia

MAY 16, 2022

Now it’s time to let the world know about it which in other words means, it’s time to start planning an online event. In a previous article , we covered how to do this for physical events, and now it’s time to talk about how to take this online. How to apply this to your online product launch. Check out this article.

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Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This carefully curated conference directory features more than 100 tech conferences happening worldwide in 2023. Conferences: Both IRL and virtual conferences powered by virtual event software are the backbone of the tech events industry and can be both B2C and B2B events. We’ve done all the work for you!

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DCI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

More than 1,600 economic development practitioners gathered in Dallas last week for the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) Annual Conference. The conference concluded its four-day programming with a morning plenary of six site selection consultants sharing the latest trends and best practices for communities.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The European Association of Archaeologists’ annual conference in Belfast included an interactive program for the local community — including children — to learn about their heritage. 2, was supported by Conference Partners International’s “fantastic team,” Murphy said. The event in Belfast, Aug. I see it as a positive.”

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 25, 2024

A more accurate assessment might be that the future is whatever format engages audiences most effectively. When event professionals say their event is hybrid, they mean they have a version of the in-person event available to watch online. Nobody should have an online component. This is where things fall apart,” Schwedelson said.

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