MeetingsNet

APRIL 19, 2021

Communication-skills specialist Kerri Garbis explains how to prepare speakers to present effectively for both virtual and in-person attendees. The past 12 months have brought a huge jump in demand for speaker and presenter coaching, according to Kerri Garbis, founder and CEO of Ovation, a Boston-based communication-skills training firm.

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Stova

JANUARY 18, 2024

High fives on the speakers and networking opportunities? Wouldn’t it be great if you could get instant audience feedback throughout your event? Modern technology answers the call with innovative audience engagement tools. This article provides a blueprint for capturing audience sentiment in real time. The good news?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2023

But to mesmerize your audience with something they haven’t seen before, meeting planners should invest time developing a productive relationship with an AV partner. Read More : 10 Questions to Ask a Potential Event Vendor Your AV provider’s technicians will be interacting with your staff, your presenters and your audience.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Live streaming events is a great way to expand your reach and make your content and programming available to a new audience. There’s a lot of benefits to live streaming events, but truly successful live streamed events are more about audience engagement and less about technology. Do you want your remote audience to be able to network?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2021

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. That’s why securing an exciting, engaging speaker and creating a compelling, concise agenda is even more critical than for in-person events.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2022

Today, we have capabilities to deliver live holograms of speakers with little to no latency for real-time interactions with an audience of any size and costs have been reduced dramatically,” shared O’Reilly in a recent chat. “If Using hologram technology is no longer limited to big-budget events or sci-fi movies.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 8, 2022

Audiences will pay for quality content. With so many attendees used to free events, expectations are high for paid events. “They [online audiences] are far less captive and will have increasingly high expectations around the quality and value of these experiences. published by the Virtua Events Institute. Include a Virtual Emcee.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 25, 2022

You’ve built an all-star lineup of virtual speakers for your next event. It’s time to tackle speaker management for your event. . of event organizers find it easier to enlist outstanding speakers for virtual events than in-person gatherings. 5 Benefits of Creating and Maintaining Incredible Speaker Relationships.

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Endless Events

APRIL 19, 2021

Very little thought went into the virtual audience’s experience, their ability to network amongst themselves and the other attendees, the quality of the stream, and the way content was delivered. On the other hand, spokes will enable smaller groups of attendees, speakers, exhibitors, and staff to convene. Model C: The Planet.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The venue was perfect and the speakers top-notch. Speakers want to present remotely, and attendees and sponsors are starting to drop off. What if travel policies change, and speakers, attendees and sponsors start to cancel? Know your audience. Make sure it stays true to audience needs. Then along came Delta.

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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. Consider the wants and needs of your audience and use your event platform to easily share accessible content that will truly excite them.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Not only did organizations have to shift to virtual with their experiences, but they also had to learn the ropes of remote work. Who’s our target audience? But now that everything happens remotely, making sense of it all and coming up with a concise and actionable strategy is a challenge. How It Works.

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Endless Events

APRIL 28, 2020

Keeping your audience engaged will be one of the hardest tasks associated with putting together a successful virtual event. Your content will be pivotal in assuring you hook the attention of the audience. Failing to take into consideration the technical aptitude of your audience is up there with the most common virtual event mistakes.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

The capabilities of Remote Simultaneous Interpretation ( RSI ) have reached new heights, elevating the events industry and the experiences it creates for attendees. The software creates a platform from which real-time multilingual speakers interpret what’s being said at the event, for attendees. Planning for a Multilingual Audience.

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Endless Events

MARCH 25, 2020

In the process, you’ll also want to define your target audience clearly, since this is a stepping stone for many aspects of planning and execution. Do you just want a speaker talking to the audience? Do you want the audience to engage? Find Speakers. Particularly during a remote event! 2 Months Out.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s a great episode to catch up with everything Will and Brandt have been talking about in the past year and to see just how engaging this dynamic duo sounds in front of a live audience. Brandt and Will give the audience a one-hour rundown of event technology trends of 2022. The speaker needs to engage the audience.

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Endless Events

JULY 15, 2020

Because now you’ll have to consider both the in-person experience and the remote experience. Arguably the most overwhelming part of planning a hybrid event is the fact that you have to plan for two audiences. But we cannot stress enough the importance of giving both audiences the same amount of love. For the virtual one?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Event technology company CadmiumCD built lead retrieval into its conference website technology, allowing attendee-to-attendee networking, downloading of speaker presentations and badge scanning using an existing Android or iOS phone. Read More : IMEX22 Welcomed Record Number of Attendees.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Since we’ve been putting so much pressure on remote speakers and audiences, it’s time to wonder: what can we do? “When it comes to speaker support, I think there’s gotta be some change that happens in this next year”, says Will. How can we make their roles easier? It All Starts With A Story.

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Endless Events

MAY 1, 2020

Because everyone involved in the experience – you, the attendees, the speakers, the entertainment – will be attending the event remotely. But while it’s easier for planners to have control over their own connection and train the speakers in the same sense, it’s not quite as easy on the attendee side.

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Endless Events

MAY 6, 2019

Event Live Streaming: The Audience. “In a sense, you’re creating a new audience, you have the in-person audience and the virtual audience”, says Brandt. So, it’s paramount you remember both these audiences and not just one of them. What does your remote audience look like?”

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2022

With the return of in-person events and new technologies developed for hybrid and remote platforms, meeting professionals have more opportunities than ever to engage and excite attendees. Keep your Audience Engaged. Read More: Winning at Maximizing Virtual Audience Engagement: 10 Fun Ideas from Dahlia El Gazzar .

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Now that virtual events are fairly normalized, it’s never been easier to access a global audience. With the power of virtual events, event planners all of a sudden had a chance to reach a larger audience and get their name out there. Sometimes, that brings about a pandemic, and other times, it increases your ROI.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A streaming option can serve larger, more geographically diverse and executive audiences, act as a flexible insurance policy in the event a new threat grounds attendees while providing valuable data about behavior. When a speaker can hear the basic human gesture of clapping at the push of a button, it is beautiful to see,” he said.

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Endless Events

MARCH 12, 2021

From revolutionizing remote work to giving a whole new exciting vibe to digital experiences, here’s the full rundown on VR for virtual events! Remote Work. Remote work isn’t a brand new concept – the Endless Events team has been doing it for years! Using VR for virtual events can be a complete game-changer.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

For sure, there are a significant percentage of meeting attendees that can’t wait to participate in person; but organizers and planners found out during the first several months of 2022 that a sizable audience of previous attendees were more than happy to participate virtually. And speaking of social media, don’t overlook this now-old friend.

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Endless Events

JUNE 20, 2023

Before you market to any audience, you need to understand who they are and where they come from. If you aren’t part of Gen Z, you might feel confounded by the preferences of these young whipper-snappers, so it’s extra important to do your homework on this audience. Who Is Gen Z? Gen Z includes people born between 1997 and 2012.

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Endless Events

JULY 6, 2020

You can also get in touch with your audience before, and further develop that sense of community that is so paramount. But on the other hand, you still need to keep your target audience in mind. Having 1,000 relevant attendees is far superior to having 15,000 unqualified people in the audience. Be Upfront With The Event Agenda.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 8, 2023

This rapid shift means that we have a completely different audience that we’re dealing with, and they are more female, they are more diverse in almost every way. Now, event planners looking to grow a Gen Z audience may need to get more creative in engaging the younger demographic. Save everything else for online.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 12, 2022

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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Endless Events

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Event technology masters, such as our hosts, Will and Brandt, gave out advice on the best virtual speaker gear. Role Model #2: Apple Keynote Speakers. We just want to get back to our in-person audiences and have it be the way that it was before. If you want me to present remotely, I can do more presentations too.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 29, 2022

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is aiming to restore its pre-pandemic in-person participation at the same time it cultivates a larger online audience. Our audience really has grown to expect choices and the hybrid event is the ultimate choice.”. I’m a firm advocate that hybrid events are here to stay,” Reed said.

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Blue Spark Event Design

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sustainability can even save you some dollars: Saving money with sustainable events Remote Work Integration With remote work becoming increasingly common, corporate events must accommodate distributed teams. Flexible Spaces Flexible event spaces that can adapt to various formats and capacities are gaining popularity.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 1, 2022

The day-long presentation mixed content from three in-person hubs—San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and London—along with thousands making up the remote audience from around the world. Real-world planners shared how they are using the tools to personalize events and increase audience attendance and engagement.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 1, 2022

The day-long presentation mixed content from three in-person hubs—San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and London—along with thousands making up the remote audience from around the world. Real-world planners shared how they are using the tools to personalize events and increase audience attendance and engagement.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By now, most of us have attended more virtual events than we can count and gotten used to the concept of remote work. It’s one of the simplest ways to increase your virtual audience engagement ,” says Will. Those presenters at in-person events who aren’t making eye contact with the audience are usually boring.

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Endless Events

APRIL 6, 2021

As the first point of contact for event planners, Syd Griffith, Karmen Jericevic, John Pistotti, and Ambre Wade know how to decipher what their needs are and how to create solutions for better virtual audience engagement. Not only are they event professionals, but they also know about all the ins and outs of working remotely.

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