EventMB

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The event industry seems to agree that the future is a hybrid of in-person and virtual experiences. Is this what attendees want? The second wave of the pandemic has hit, virtual events keep gaining traction. The environment is uncertain. The signs of polarization we covered a while ago have worsened. On one side, there are […]. The post Questioning Whether the Future of Events Is Really Hybrid by Julius Solaris appeared first on [link].

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This is a guest post by Joy S. Davis, CAE, based on an email she sent to me after reading Lisa Block’s recent post, “I Am Sorry, But We Are Not All Fine.” Joy is Managing Director, Member Products, for the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. Not too long ago, I gently asked my Executive Director to stop opening her weekly columns to members with a depressing reminder of COVID-19 and how weird things are right now.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How can we work on facilitating change in our lives? If we want to facilitate change in our lives, having a model of how change happens can be very helpful. But which model ? To facilitate business change, there’s an entire industry of well-paid organizational change management consultants who use different change models. And though we may not be aware of it, we all carry around some kind of model in our head about we make changes in our life.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A global pandemic has made 2020 a rough year for live performance, but not an impossible one. Venues, performers, and fans have collectively come up with a socially distant solution: streaming everything under the sun, including punk concerts, Shakespeare, and drag shows. Collectively, these audacious live performances have provided some good news: Livestreaming an event […].

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Eventmobi

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Zoom has seen a huge rise in popularity during 2020, to the point where its name has become synonymous with video conferencing. So for many event planners looking for the right tool to host a virtual conference, Zoom is the first thing that comes to mind. But while Zoom offers the ideal infrastructure for running video meetings and webinars, in order to host a full virtual conference with complex agendas, attendee networking and sponsor visibility, planners need a more customizable virtual event

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EventMB

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The massacred event industry has been in need of some good news for a while. The news came this morning with the announcement of a 90% effective vaccine. Eventprofs are convinced that only a vaccine can bring them back to business. Recent research from EventMB sees 40 percent of planners ranking a vaccine as the […]. The post New Vaccine Optimism Boosts the Event Industry by Julius Solaris appeared first on [link].

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Right now, there's only one option if you don't want to get left behind in the events industry: going virtual. The mistake many exhibitors and organizers have been making as of late is believing that going virtual is a temporary cure, rather than a permanent change to their business models. The future of events is tech-centric, and virtual platforms are here to stay whether they like it or not.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Earlier this year I reviewed ( 1 , 2 ) three online conference social platforms: Gatherly , Rally , and Wonder ( the new name for Yotribe since September). Since then, the Gatherly and Rally developers have been hard at work! So here’s a review of the updated versions of these platforms, including comparisons with the relatively unchanged Wonder service.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

For event creators planning in-person events, health and safety is top-of-mind during COVID-19. Whether you’re building your own social-distance-friendly event space or modifying a traditional venue for healthy practices, Eventbrite’s customizable venue map is perfect for creating a ticketed floor plan for COVID-era events. Eventbrite’s Venue Maps are more than just visual layouts of a […].

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Eventbrite UK

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Hosting an event is hard enough, so we’ve created free templates to help you handle the minutiae before, during, and after your event. Whether you’re trying to sell more tickets through marketing, communicate with your audience, or you’re planning, budgeting, and programming your event, we have a template that will help you host an event […]. The post Free Templates for Planning, Organising, and Hosting Your Event appeared first on Eventbrite UK.

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Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

It’s fairly common for new wedding venues to use free software like Google Docs, Excel spreadsheets, e-calendars and email plus cost-saving tools like whiteboards, paper printouts and folders while landing their first bookings and gaining a foothold in the event industry. Unfortunately, these solutions – though assembled with the best of intentions – can quickly lead to costly process gaps, create unnecessary work redundancies and restrain growth and expansion for new event venues.

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EventMB

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The event industry is facing an existential crisis that may continue for several years. While many insiders bicker online about the value of face-to-face versus virtual, the task of going back to live events becomes more challenging. The culprit? Superspreader events. Let’s be honest. If you work in the event industry, it is not a […]. The post Virtual Events Are Not the Enemy — Superspreader Events Are by Julius Solaris appeared first on [link].

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Virtual events might not be something completely new at this point. But people everywhere are still learning how to navigate all the tech aspects that go into it. While there’s a lot that planners now need to focus on, from engagement to networking and more, we want to talk about something else today. Or rather, someone else. Because much like event profs had to adapt to the new normal, so did presenters and attendees.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

How does what someone says about me myself influence my life. Who am I really? How can I be myself? What does it even mean to “be myself”? The school play. Educated during our teens to be total nerds , we had little time for anything but science and math at Dulwich College. So we were thrilled when our English teacher said we could put on a play.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Thanksgiving will look a bit different this year, but the desire to connect and give thanks is still strong in the United States. We looked into the data and found over 8K Thanksgiving-related events available on Eventbrite and saw consumers across the country are hungry for volunteering opportunities, turkey trots, and free turkeys. Every year, […].

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Eventbrite UK

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Once a niche aspect of the event industry, virtual events have become an integral part of daily life in a COVID-impacted world. And they’re not going anywhere. The best part of this online event renaissance? You don’t need a huge budget or previous event experience to create exciting virtual events. Over the last six months, […]. The post How to Create Exciting Virtual Events That Will Engage Your Audience appeared first on Eventbrite UK.

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Skift

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture, which originally opened in 1814, has been rebuilt in virtual world Second Life. The Peale Skift Take: Plenty of takeaways for businesses from this ambitious project, including the risks when you embrace the digital lifestyle a little too much. — Matthew Parsons Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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Speaker: Adam Dorfman, Lindsay Harrison, and Erin O'Brien

Did you know that 4 out of 5 consumers use local search and 88% use smartphones for those searches? With that in mind, I think it's safe to say your online presence is the silver bullet of your business. Think about the revenue you could be missing by not prioritizing local search optimization. Fortunately, there are a handful of steps you can take right now that will immediately impact your business's pace in local search, and we're happy to share them.

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EventMB

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Virtual event technology company Hopin just announced it has closed one of the largest funding rounds in the history of the event industry. The Series B is led by existing investor IVP plus new investor Tiger Global, and joined by Coatue and DFJ Growth, along with Hopin’s returning investors Accel, Northzone, Salesforce Ventures, and Seedcamp. […].

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plenty of things about planning a virtual event cause stress and confusion. But perhaps none other brings as many questions as the infamous choice of platform. In a matter of months, this particular industry segment witnessed an extraordinary boom. And as virtual events kept evolving, planners were bombarded with dozens of features and opportunities from platforms swearing they were the next big thing.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The most popular of the in-person sessions I design and facilitate is The Solution Room (here are some testimonials ). The 90 – 120 minute session, for 20 – 600 people, engages and connects participants, and provides just-in-time peer support and answers to their most pressing professional challenges. These days, wouldn’t it be great to run The Solution Room online?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Planning and hosting exciting events has never been more challenging, but bringing things back to basics can help. If you’re looking to uplevel your event business, it’s critical to make sure that you’re performing as best as you possibly can every step of the way. From drafting a production schedule to designing invitations, promoting ticket […].

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Eventbrite UK

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By Joel Crouch, GM Europe at Eventbrite The UK has entered a second national lockdown, and in-person events are on pause once again. That’s a hard pill to swallow for an industry that has only just started reemerging with thoughtful, socially distanced event formats, which included a boom of drive-in events, safe Halloween events, and […]. The post Lockdown 2.0: What We’ve Learnt About Online Events so far appeared first on Eventbrite UK.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Thick with original thought, new systems and solutions, the 2021 edition of the Event Tech Buyer’s Guide is product of extraordinary times. Technology has been the difference between yes and no for live events since lockdown. It’s provided a route, a stage, for exhibitions, conferences and live performances to re-model – helping hundreds of shows to go on.

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EventMB

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To facilitate virtual and hybrid events during the pandemic, convention centers around the world have begun to build out full-fledged virtual event studios — but planners still need to consider the skills necessary to use them. While many convention centres were converted into hospitals to assist with the public health crisis, they're now turning to […].

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As a production company, we get a lot of questions about virtual attendee engagement. Arguably one of the biggest pain points for planners, driving engagement isn’t quite as hard as one might think. And while we’ve discussed this topic before, we wanted to tackle it again. Because after producing dozens of successful virtual events over the past few months, we’ve learned a lot!

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Speaker: Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, Medical Director, Psychiatry and Naj Wright, MBA, C-Suite HR Executive

The last year and a half has been one of extreme stress and anxiety for the American Workforce. A 2021 New York University School of Global Public Health survey of 5,850 people who drink alcohol found that 29 percent have increased their drinking during the pandemic. Among people who have been experiencing depression (64% more likely) and anxiety (41% more likely), which have also become more prevalent over the last 18 months, the risk is even higher.

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EventSource

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Couples who planned to get married in 2020 or early 2021 have had to drastically alter their plans for the big day. So, whether you’ve had to postpone, cancel altogether or are now planning a completely different wedding – you’re not alone. There are many restrictions currently placed on weddings and general gatherings, but possibly the most difficult to navigate is the guest list.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The COVID-19 global pandemic has impacted people, businesses, and economies around the world. Over the past seven months as people have hunkered down in their homes and socially distanced, we’ve seen new trends emerge on Eventbrite, helping people through this unprecedented time. One recent trend we’ve discovered: a rise in coding and programming language events. […].

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Eventbrite UK

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Tastings. Heaven for culinary explorer types, and a unique way to educate your palate, expand your taste horizon, and entertain your tastebuds. They used to be somewhat intimate affairs in restaurants, wine cellars and distilleries, usually led by a gastro pro, like a seasoned Chef, Sommelier, or Chocolatier. The pandemic has, as with so many […].

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