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Winning at Maximizing Virtual Audience Engagement: 10 Fun Ideas from Dahlia El Gazzar

Smart Meetings

“Know thy audience!” When it comes to engagement success, “You need to start by diving into what your audience really likes, then dig a bit deeper to uncover what life is like around them,” says Dahlia. Now, more than ever, a feel-good moment is going to resonate, no matter the age of your audience” shares Dahlia.

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Designing an online memorial service

Conferences that Work

During registration, we’re asking those who want to share to give us an idea of what they might do or say. As the registrations come in, I will use the affiliation information included to create appropriate descriptions for these rooms. But I reluctantly felt it necessary to focus on the majority of the target audience.

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

But our industry still faces ongoing challenges, such as: high travel, F&B, and production costs; staffing shortages; tight client budgets; and the rise of last-minute event registrations. For this trip, the first time I’d been back to Europe since an Estonian meeting design conference in 2020, I decided to spend a week in Rome.

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Elevating Virtual Events: Transforming In-Person Meetings to Digital

Brightspot Incentive Events

To execute a successful virtual event, our team was tasked with developing a strategy that enhanced meeting design, optimized the attendee’s experience, and increased attendee engagement. It took time and resources to complete demos with the top platforms to learn the best tools for audience engagement and user experience.

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Make Event Networking Better For Your Attendees

Endless Events

Help your audience mingle by guiding them, maybe through group activities. PS: If you need more event networking and audience engagement tips, why not. While both these strategies take more work, increasing your audience turnout would be a piece of cake. Today’s favorites are all about how to make event networking better.

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job. But when you’re spending all your time on these issues it’s easy to forget that they are not what meetings are about. Because they make assumptions that what has to happen is what happened at just about every meeting their authors ever attended.

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Go Beyond Event Sponsorship Packages: Forge Long-Term Event Partnerships

Endless Events

Online Tools to Make Registration a Breeze. Forever gone are the days when event registration meant signing a sheet of paper. For any type of registration though, speed and ease of registration is a definite plus. Common tools like WordPress and MailChimp can now process registrations.