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The Five Best Online Training Courses for Online Events

Gallus Events

Many event organisers and event companies are seeking out the best online training courses for online events and there are a lot on offer. We have searched far and wide to find the five best training courses for online events. . Run by organisations who have been talking about hybrid or online events for a while.

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Facilitating an online participation-rich workshop in Gatherly

Conferences that Work

Earlier this month, the folks at Gatherly kindly invited me to host an event of my choosing for their clients and potential users. This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. Designing an online workshop in Gatherly. I’ve shared the why?

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The UnExpo Experiment

Conferences that Work

Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meeting design I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.) The five day event is being held by Federation EIL, the worldwide network of The Experiment in International.

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Review of Butter, a smooth meeting platform for facilitators

Conferences that Work

So here’s my review of Butter, a meeting platform for facilitators to shine. In this review of Butter, I’ll share a big picture overview, what I think is Butter’s finest feature, an example of how to implement a meeting design in Butter, and my closing thoughts. Meeting design case.

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5 Innovative Meeting Formats

PCMA Convene

“The higher-level reality is that so many of the meetings we attend and plan these days look and feel exactly the same as meetings designed prior to the internet,” said Marc Pomerleau, vice president of global strategy for FreemanXP. But it won’t if the event is overly scripted and controlled. That’s the old model.

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What Venues Need to Succeed: 5 Research-Backed Insights

All Seated

After another strong year in 2018 for meetings and events, many predictions show the upward trends continuing this year: The Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) 2019 Meetings & Trends Report predicts a robust 5 to 10 percent growth in demand. in GDP in 2019. Of course, WiFi is critically important for planners and attendees too.

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Event Statistics: 17 Current Planning Stats that Could Change Your Business Today

Social Tables

And with each survey and stat, we learn a little bit more about how all of us can come together to create better face-to-face events. At the end of the day, it’s the stats that bring us all together, open up new conversations, and spur collaboration, that have the biggest and most holistic impact on our events.

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