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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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How to Harness the Lasting Power of Virtual Meetings

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A dedicated online agenda, offering virtual participants features that wouldn’t be available to in-person attendees, can be elevated through a screen. Polls and surveys can be conducted easily online with the results displayed to both audiences. This misstep often takes the form of a panel discussion. “A Offer Content On-demand.

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What is Stopping International Attendees from Returning to U.S. Conferences?

Smart Meetings

Read More : How to Cultivate a State of Play at Events Asia Himeji, Japan, at Himeji Castle All eyes were on the Asia panel as gateway cities in particular were eager to hear when China visitors would be returning in pre-pandemic numbers. Authentic encounters, sustainability and premium travel are growing trends.

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How Customized Generational Engagement Can Benefit Meeting Profs

Smart Meetings

Save everything else for online. Freeman found that 73% of attendees want to experience demos, while 53% want structured sessions in a classroom or with a speaker or panel. Holsinger suggested that meeting planners will want remote work to continue to elevate the attendees’ desire to experience in-person engagement.

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Hub and spoke meetings

Conferences that Work

Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. A hub and spoke meeting is one where there’s a central hub meeting or event that additional groups (aka “pods”) of people join remotely. The hub event and each pod may be either in-person or online.

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Hubilo’s MIX 2022 Asked Enduring Experiential Questions

Smart Meetings

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. Live and recorded virtual panels shared a vision for a how to transform events into experiences.

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Hubilo’s MIX 2022 Asked Enduring Experiential Questions

Smart Meetings

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. Live and recorded virtual panels shared a vision for a how to transform events into experiences.

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