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From Button Boxes To Chats: Audience Response Systems Through Time!

Endless Events

One of the hottest topics in the events industry nowadays is hybrid and virtual audience engagement. But as the Event Tech Podcast highlights today, you can’t really talk about audience engagement without including audience response systems in the conversations. Audience Response Systems Are Not New.

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Best of 2022: Technology

Smart Meetings

Now, more than ever, meeting professionals need timely updates about how evolving technology can help them deliver smoother registration, better engagement and more valuable data insights for in-person, virtual and hybrid events. Technology should reflect the needs of specific audiences. Ultimately, exclusivity is key.

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Brandt & Will’s Event Technology Trends 2022

Endless Events

Rather than having a regular conversation about event technology, Will and Brandt are sharing the contents of a session they led at the FICP Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona back in November 2021. Introducing Event Technology Trends 2022. Brandt and Will give the audience a one-hour rundown of event technology trends of 2022.

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Speaker Trends for This Year’s Business Events

MeetingsNet

Economic, cultural, and technological issues are impacting who makes it onto the podium at meeting and conventions. The Speaking Industry Benchmark Report produced by AAE Speakers Bureau compiles data from both event organizers and keynote speakers to better understand the issues and trends affecting the speaker-booking process.

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10 Important Technology Questions to Ask in Your Next RFP

Smart Meetings

Technological considerations play an important role in creating RFPs. Your technology can make or break your event. Make sure you fully understand the client expectations so your technology can support these expectations effectively. Will you have any featured speakers? Should those speakers be linked to any sessions?

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6 Attendee Retention Tips: Keep Your Audience Coming Back

Endless Events

If you want to increase attendee retention, you need to figure out what makes your audience come back. Event gamification is one of the best tactics in event planners’ arsenal to achieve their event goals, including higher audience engagement and attendee retention. Ask For Feedback, Then Act On It. Start Promoting At The Event.

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The Ins & Outs Of Hybrid Audience Engagement

Endless Events

We’ve talked a lot about virtual events in the past and how we keep the audience engaged. But when it comes to hybrid audience engagement, you are literally dealing with two different sets of attendees. A hybrid event is the combination of an in-person audience and a virtual audience. Blur the audiences together.

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