Mon.Apr 20, 2020

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5 Tips to Guarantee Engagement at Your Virtual Event

Velvet Chainsaw

To design a virtual event with the participants in mind, you need to create an engaging, interactive experience that provides relevant content and promotes knowledge sharing and networking value—often the missing link in our new virtual reality. In this short video , we give you five tips to ensure that you’ll achieve amazing and impactful engagement with your next digital event.

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How Lindy Hoppers Moved Their Grooves Online

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A full century has passed since Lindy Hop was born in 1920s Harlem, but this joyful, physically expressive form of partnered swing dance continues to capture hearts today. Lindy Hoppers have built a sub-culture composed of jazz fanatics and dance enthusiasts excited about the incredible history and sporty physical collaboration that Lindy Hop brings.

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Who goes next — protocols for online meetings

Conferences that Work

You’ve surely overheard or been part of a “conversation” where one person talks non-stop. Who goes next? Nobody! “Free discussions” at meetings frequently suffer from the same phenomenon. A few people monopolize most of the time, and many people, often a majority, say nothing. If you want to support everyone’s right to share at a meeting, you’ll need to facilitate what happens via defining and agreeing on who can speak, and when, and for how long.

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Quarantined Comedy Finds New Online Streams

Picatic by Eventbrite

Laughter is the best medicine, the saying goes. As the Covid-19 pandemic keeps us quarantined, often anxious, and tiptoeing on health’s eggshells (if we’re fortunate), this adage seems more apt than ever. But with comedy clubs and performance venues shut down, how do comedians connect with virtual audiences to share fresh laugh-worthy material in a […].

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Unlock the Secrets of Event Marketing Masters

The greats learn from the greats. Set yourself and your team up for success with tried and tested strategies and insights from event marketing geniuses at Vanta, Partnership Leaders, Quantum Metric, Rocketlane, and Explori.

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How These 4 Event Brands Tackled Covid-19 Crisis Communications

EventMB

The coronavirus outbreak has forced eventprofs to make and announce difficult and often heartbreaking decisions regarding the status of their events. Some have done better than others, and here are four lessons from their effective crisis communications. Crisis communications expertise is a skill event planners need but hope they never have to use. In […].

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Covid 19. Why the live events industry WILL come back stronger than ever

Event Industry News

By Duncan Strain ; Director & Owner at Silent Noize Events / Silent Seminars. As we enter the second month of the Covid 19 crises, a lot of the talk within the events industry has honed in on the need for diversification by way of virtual events and meetings. Perhaps understandably so given that the live events industry has come to an almost complete standstill.

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How to Create & Promote a GoFundMe Fundraiser in Response to COVID-19

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If your event was postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19, launching a GoFundMe fundraiser can be an effective way to make up for lost revenue, and promoting your fundraiser with easy-to-use tools can help you reach new donors faster. The global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on organizations across the live events […].

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5 Tips for Pivoting to Digital Meetings

SmartMeetings

The COVID-19 pandemic’s fallout has been felt around the world, but business demands require many organizations continue with as normal of operations as possible. That often means holding meetings and events to engage your employees, customers and partners. Because of travel restrictions and teams working remotely, many organizations have converted in-person events to live webcasting and video streams as part of their approach to sustain operations and maintain progress.

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8 Toronto Caterers Offering Home Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

EventSource

While large events and gatherings remain on hiatus, there’s no reason we can’t continue to enjoy gourmet meals at home thanks to some of the Toronto caterers who are offering home delivery menus. Make no mistake – this isn’t your average takeout! The City’s finest caterers have truly brought their A-game for their at-home menus, ensuring that the menus offered still reflect their brands.

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How to Get Speakers, Exhibitors, and Attendees to Promote Your Event With Video

In this best practices guide, you’ll learn how to tap into the cost-efficiencies of advocacy and word-of-mouth marketing with video. Examples include speakers providing a preview of their upcoming sessions, exhibitors creating “please stop by” invitations and attendees creating “looking forward to seeing you” introduction videos. Learn about best practices and programs created by leading companies and associations including ASIS, AUVSI, SuperZoo, National Restaurant Association, World of Concret

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The UK’s first virtual wellbeing festival is announced

Event Industry News

The wellbeing community has come together to launch the ‘Live Life Well Weekender’ – the UK’s first ever virtual wellbeing festival online, in response to COVID-19 and the current national lockdown, to help people better cope in these extraordinary times. With some 2.6 billion people in lockdown across the world, there are a host of issues people are struggling with every day that are impacting our emotional and mental wellbeing with 1 in 7 people saying they are struggling to cope.

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11 Toronto Caterers Offering Home Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

EventSource

While large events and gatherings remain on hiatus, there’s no reason we can’t continue to enjoy gourmet meals at home thanks to some of the Toronto caterers who are offering home delivery menus. Make no mistake – this isn’t your average takeout! The City’s finest caterers have truly brought their A-game for their at-home menus, ensuring that the menus offered still reflect their brands.

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Five Best Practices For Volunteer Management

InitLive

For many nonprofits, volunteers play an essential part in carrying out the organization's mission. But for a lot of these organizations, taking a critical look at their volunteer management strategy (if they even have one) is the last thing on a very long to-do list. Organizations tend to run their volunteer programs the way they always have, rather than trying to improve them.

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Your Guide To Refund Alternatives

Eventbrite UK

Click here to view the PDF – Your Guide to Refund Alternatives Was this article worth your time? YesNo. The post Your Guide To Refund Alternatives appeared first on Eventbrite UK.

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B2B Events in 2023 - What You Need to Know

Get ahead of the curve and stay informed with Zuddl's industry report on the future of B2B events in 2023. Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and insights from leading experts in the field. Make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

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TIP! - Checklist for Event Venues

eventplanner

The location will determine to a large extent the atmosphere, attractiveness and appeal of your event. This check-list is a useful tool to make sure that your dream venue really is suitable to host your dream event.

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Victory Services Club transforms itself into a Key-Worker Hotel to support the fight against COVID-19

Event Industry News

The Victory Services Club, a private military Club and events venue in Marble Arch London, has been transformed into a hotel to accommodate key workers. The Club has 100 rooms available, of which 50 to 60 are currently being used to support military personal deployed in London to help with the Coronavirus pandemic. Mark Field, Operations Director at Victory Services Club said: “As a private Club and events venue, we are closed to our members and our event business clients, so we approached the M

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10 Toronto Caterers Offering Home Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

EventSource

While large events and gatherings remain on hiatus, there’s no reason we can’t continue to enjoy gourmet meals at home thanks to some of the Toronto caterers who are offering home delivery menus. Make no mistake – this isn’t your average takeout! The City’s finest caterers have truly brought their A-game for their at-home menus, ensuring that the menus offered still reflect their brands.

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Mercedes-Benz World offers a world of possibilities for your entire event

Event Industry News

Located on the historic Brooklands motor racing circuit in Surrey, Mercedes-Benz World offers a world of possibilities for your entire event, corporate and team-building needs. From thrilling driving experiences and outstanding activities to first-class conference and event spaces – we have everything you need for a few hours, a day or a night of fun and adventure.

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Download Now: 2022 Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template - Enterprise Edition

Download 200+ new RFP questions for hybrid and virtual event technology success. After 10,000 downloads, the SpotMe Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template is the ultimate procurement tool for event technology. This template is ideal for companies looking for a vendor to fulfill their specific virtual + hybrid event platform needs and requirements!

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17 Ideas for Virtual Event Sponsorship Revenue

Meeting Tomorrow

Meeting and event planners are working quickly to transfer their in-person events online in light of COVID-19. But for many planners, there’s still one missing piece of the virtual events puzzle: Sponsorships. How do you generate event sponsorship revenue when the traditional methods are on-hold? No banners or massive signage, no specially named lounges or convention halls, no face-to-face meetings.

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Sell virtual events with live or on-demand video streaming

VBO Tickets

We’ve always been quick to develop features that meet the needs of event promoters. It’s what has allowed us to grow into the all-in-on event ticketing solution we are today. Now, our development of live streaming and on-demand video technology is in direct response to the challenges associated with producing and promoting events during a pandemic.

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12 Reality Checks about Event Networking

Hubilo Blog

Are you ready to elevate your event networking in 2020? . 2020 brings a lot of options for us to drastically increase event networking. . Irrespective of conferences, meetings, summits, exhibitions, people are hungry for networking opportunities. And radically innovative technologies have also poured oil into it and fired up the event industry. Enhancing event networking for your attendees is now more critical than ever due to the current pandemic, Coronavirus. .

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The Belfry Hotel & Resort first to donate entire green fee income to charity

Event Industry News

The Belfry Hotel & Resort announced today that it will donate its entire green fee income on its first day of reopening to a number of UK charities. The Belfry Hotel & Resort, recognised for its world-class golf courses, is set to host over 30 charity golf days in 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, donations and many fund raising activities have been cancelled or postponed, so any support we can offer we know will help.

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The Ultimate Guide to Hosting Hybrid Events For Your Association

For associations, the hybrid model is the future of the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) industry. Hybrid events provide increased reach and scalability, improved engagement with association members, and insights from real-time analytics, making them an absolute necessity. This ready-to-use playbook presents a framework for event organizers embarking on the hybrid events journey.

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Tracking Information with Quick-Access Reports

Caterease

The post Tracking Information with Quick-Access Reports appeared first on Caterease.

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Meetings Industry Association reacts to furlough extension

Event Industry News

Jane Longhurst, chief executive of the Meetings Industry Association, said: “ The Meetings Industry Association (mia) welcomes the announcement that the furlough scheme cut-off date has been extended by government to the end of June, providing crucial support to the business meetings and events industry. . “As we continue to engage the industry and voice their needs, a recent survey issued to the industry found that 82% of organisations are reliant on the scheme to limit the substantial long te

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Creating Event Content Marketing Amidst the Coronavirus

All Seated

When you’re putting out content in the middle of any crisis, you need to be extra cautious about how it will sound to your audience. COVID-19 is impacting everyone, but it’s not a reason to stop creating content — you just need to tread lightly. You want your current and future clients to see your business as a pillar of strength and support now more than ever.

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No Events Until 2021: The Case Of LA, New York & New Orleans

Endless Events

Late last week news broke that there will probably be no events until 2021. The mayor of Los Angeles confirmed it, and New York and Los Angeles were quick to follow suit. And of course, this is big news for the events industry. Even though some saw it coming, it’s still devastating on top of all the disruption that has already been caused in the industry.

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Download 7 Exceptional Event Email Templates for Driving Attendee Engagement

Download "7 Exceptional Event Email Templates for Driving Attendee Engagement" eBook and write winning event emails right away! Relying on decades of social science research and cutting edge behavioral data, SpotMe shows you their science-based methods for creating wildly successful event-marketing email campaigns for almost any situation. SpotMe is the event management platform for B2B marketers.

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Virtual Conferences and Events: The 2020 Guide

Bizzabo

Welcome to your guide on virtual events in 2020 and beyond. Discover best practices for launching a virtual conference, aligning with your organization, identifying key metrics and more. What are virtual events? This should be a brief section pulling largely from the copy in the ebook. Should feature a brief example and also include the below chart.

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