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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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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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How to Harness the Lasting Power of Virtual Meetings

Smart Meetings

While creating opportunities for virtual and in-person attendees to interact with each other has been a hurdle for some event organizers, contests, such as trivia, allow both audiences to compete together for actual prizes. “It Polls and surveys can be conducted easily online with the results displayed to both audiences.

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Lessons learned from online meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Conferences that Work

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. Online events make it easier for them to attend. Online platforms and tools used.

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The best way to hold a discussion online

Conferences that Work

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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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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Why Not Zoom: 10 Benefits Of Event Platforms, Explained

Endless Events

Attendees can watch the panel and interact in the live chat, but there’s very little two-way communication available. But money saved also means ROI lost: the champion of March 2020 does not deliver on audience engagement and valuable data insights – and these are essential for an event’s success. Event gamification.

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