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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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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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Sports Tourism: A game-changer in destination marketing and inbound tourism

Interface Tourism Spain

Sports Tourism: A game-changer in destination marketing and inbound tourism All the news Back to newsroom Imagine standing on the historic grounds of the Monza Circuit in Italy, where the deafening roar of Formula 1 engines fills the air. Barcelona, Spain : Beyond the renowned Camp Nou, Barcelona offers a seamless blend of sports and culture.

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From Distraction to Engagement Supercharger: Putting Your Audiences’ Phones to Use

Smart Meetings

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. Rather than being a distraction, mobile devices can be the surprising key to increasing audience engagement.

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Preview Las Vegas 2024 Talks Formula 1 and A’s Move to the City

Smart Meetings

Wilm assured the audience that many of the initial preparations made over the 16 months it took to make F1 happen—which resulted in severe traffic delays (two out of three families were impacted, based on survey results)—no longer need to be made. Fisher grew up in the Bay Area.

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GMID 2024: Events Scheduled for Global Meetings Industry Day

Smart Meetings

Travel Association , to explore the importance of explaining the role of meeting professionals to a wide audience. Smart Meetings chatted with Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of U.S. Travel is essential to the success of the U.S.

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5 Ways to Build Community Loyalty

Smart Meetings

Jennifer Beindorf Research over the past two years shows that event attendance continues to increase—from business/industry events to music festivals and sporting events. One of the biggest reasons for this trend is that people desire to share meaningful, unique experiences with others—aka their “tribe.”

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