Conferences that Work

APRIL 26, 2021

Attention, meeting planners! Safe meeting venue ventilation for COVID-19 is critical. As we start thinking about returning to in-person events, it’s crucial to check that venues are upgrading their HVAC systems to handle potentially virus-infused air. There has been little public discussion on this important topic. In this post, I’ll explain why questions about venues’ HVAC safety should be at the top of your site visit checklist.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

How do you hook the attention of your audience, build their excitement for your event, and design an event experience that exceeds their expectations while delivering the business outcomes you seek? Yes, you can do it all. Our in-house event experience technologist, Ryan Costello, co-founder of Event Farm and Chief Strategy Officer at MemberSuite, shared his trusted technique in our recent webinar: Crafting the Event Experience – Part 2: Experience Mapping.

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JULY 19, 2021

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. But first…. …What’s a hub and spoke meeting? 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.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 9, 2021

Far too much money is spent on meeting glitz at the expense of good meeting design. Seth Godin makes an analogous point in this post…. Good writing is cheaper than special effects. “In movies, that’s obvious. It costs far less to make The Big Lebowski than a Marvel movie. But the metaphor applies to just about any sort of creative project. We often err on the side of ‘special effects’.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

Just when we thought we were turning the corner on a rise in Covid cases, we are hearing about short-term cancellations of conventions once again as the Delta variant causes cases to rise. Several conventions that occurred in June and July resulted in a number of positive COVID tests, including breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated participants.

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Social Tables

APRIL 22, 2021

Skip to content Menu Solutions Interactive Floor Plans Collaborative event sales software that increases qualified leads and drives direct revenue. Event Diagramming Collaborative event management software that saves time, boosts revenue and drives loyalty. NEW Sales & Catering CRM Seamlessly manage and optimize group sales performance across your entire portfolio.

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Event Age by Swapcard

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Swapcard is excited to announce events industry leader Julius Solaris has joined the team as Head of Engagement.

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Endless Events

MARCH 12, 2021

Sometimes, one has to look on the bright side of things. From the ashes of the destruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, new opportunities emerged. The world learned how to stay connected when being isolated was a requirement. People came together in extraordinary and unprecedented ways even though, technically, that wasn’t possible. And all of this happened thanks to the wonderful opportunities put forward by technology.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 22, 2021

2Heads Global Design , the UK’s leading independent experiential agency have been synonymous with innovation and experience design for nearly 40 years. Renowned for creating merging the limits of live and online, 2Heads were nominated in four categories at this year’s Event Technology Awards. 2Heads work with clients on experience strategy and engagement to create brand loyalty through online and digital tools that disrupt and story-tell.

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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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AUGUST 30, 2021

Forget ‘warm bodies’—these brand ambassador types are essential staff members. Brand ambassadors have always been a valuable part of the experiential ecosystem, and perhaps now more than ever, their ability to manage crowds, give direction, add context to an experience and make people feel at ease is essential. We’ve come a long way from recruiting “warm bodies”—these days, brands and agencies seek out intelligent brand ambassadors who can effectively relay their messaging.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 18, 2021

We’re not going back, we’re moving forward. It’s one of those things that happens without you really realizing it: “Back in the day…” becomes something that you use to describe things that happened to you in your life, rather than something that happened before you were around. More and more, you find yourself referring to things that happened in your own lifetime as “back in the day.

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Event Farm

JUNE 9, 2021

Events are coming back but planning an event looks nothing like it used to. Venue and governmental regulations keep changing. Many of your regular vendors have lost staff or gone out of business. With so many new safety-related expenses, your old budget template no longer works. . Event budgets were the focus of part IV of our virtual series on Pandemic Compliance and Safety at Live Events.

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Skift

MARCH 10, 2021

JW Orlando Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa. JW Marriott Skift Take: The pent-up demand is real, but over time traditional notions of the corporate retreat may change. — Matthew Parsons Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I’m noticing that event promoters are increasingly using the word “ unconference ” to describe traditional conferences. <Sigh> Please stop doing this! There’s a big difference between unconferences and traditional events. Here’s how Wikipedia defines an unconference: “An unconference is a participant-driven meeting.” “Typically at an unconference, the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting. ” — Unconference

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 3, 2021

I have been a loyal and passionate disciple of networking for all of my adult life. I have spent decades learning, speaking and writing about it. Yet when our world was turned upside down last March, and all meaningful connection with everyone was forced into a digital world, I suddenly felt like I lost my footing and became very unstable. I learned a lot over the first nine months of the pandemic as I collaborated with clients to design and deliver high-value networking experiences in the digit

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EventMB

AUGUST 18, 2021

As investments continue to pour into the event tech sector, many providers are gunning for more end users — a shift that has implications for the way attendees find and interact with content. How could this impact the control event brands have over their own audiences? When the pandemic kiboshed large physical gatherings, event technology […].

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Social Tables

APRIL 13, 2021

Skip to content Menu Solutions Interactive Floor Plans Collaborative event sales software that increases qualified leads and drives direct revenue. Event Diagramming Collaborative event management software that saves time, boosts revenue and drives loyalty. NEW Sales & Catering CRM Seamlessly manage and optimize group sales performance across your entire portfolio.

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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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Glisser

APRIL 19, 2021

The events industry has had a tough year to say the least, but these challenging times have also inspired some huge achievements and innovations in virtual events. Here, we celebrate some of the people who have gone above and beyond this past year, and we urge you to follow them for inspiration, success stories and motivation.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Accessibility isn’t often top of mind when planning an event. But as the world moves towards more inclusivity each day that passes, planners must ensure that the experiences they craft reach as many people as possible. A national inclusion conducted by RespectAbility , in partnership with The Chronicle of Philanthropy and The Nonprofit Times, revealed a series of interesting data points.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Working with the Music Venue Trust (MVT) and approved for trial by the DCMS, start-up company You Check will test its new health passport with live audiences as a means to safely reopen UK music venues. Pencilled in for the 100 Club in London and Bristol’s 250 capacity Exchange, the first test events can’t come soon enough. According to MVT research more than 400 grassroots music venues are at imminent risk of being closed permanently.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 2, 2021

This fall, major user conferences, trade shows, music festivals and other gatherings are banking on attendees being ready to return to in-person events. For some, it’s a return to business as usual, with the events looking and feeling as they did in fall 2019. Others—like Salesforce—see it as an opportunity to reset and come back with reimagined concepts.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 28, 2021

“Don’t be boring.” A couple of months ago, I coached a virtual classroom full of ten-year-olds on developing the speeches that every kid needs to create annually. I gave them just that one piece of advice in my 15-minute talk. Sure, I’ve got about 200 other ideas for them, but “don’t be boring” was the one that was going to have the greatest impact on their talks.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2021

A hybrid meeting takes place at Marina Bay Sands’ Hybrid Broadcast Studio in Singapore. The overall number of COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard respondents who said they were planning to hold simultaneous events for digital and in-person audiences dropped over the last six months. (Courtesy Marina Bay Sands). Let’s call it a micro-trend: In the six months since Convene began collecting data about how planners are designing hybrid events, there has been a slow-but-steady decrease in the number of

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Skift

JUNE 24, 2021

The New York Times Travel Show has ended. This photo was taken at the 2019 show. j-No / Flickr Skift Take: No matter what you thought of the show, it's another large loss for the travel industry after a horrific year. — Angel Adegbesan Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The meeting is over. Did anyone learn anything? And how would you know? An EventTech Chat discussion. I greatly enjoy participating in EventTech Chat , “a weekly conversation about meeting and event technology, including software, hardware, and audiovisual for in-person and online events” hosted by pals Brandt Krueger and Glenn Thayer. During last week’s chat, one of the topics we discussed was whether there are differences in how people learn online, as opposed to face to fac

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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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SmartMeetings

MARCH 24, 2021

Occasionally, major unexpected developments force entire industries to rapidly change their business model overnight or face the very real prospect of extinction. While widespread technology adoption is traditionally a slow process, the Covid-19 pandemic forced a rapid and necessary global shift to remote work , travel restrictions and digital communication , putting the live meetings and events industry on pause.

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EventMB

AUGUST 5, 2021

Virtual event unicorn Hopin has announced a fresh investment of $450 million in Series D funding. Hopin has now raised more than $1 billion since February 2020. The company is now valued at a breathtaking $7.75 billion. No, this is not groundhog day, although this story sure sounds familiar. This latest Series D round of […]. The post Hopin Raises New $450 Million Round of Funding by Miguel Neves appeared first on [link].

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

A well-designed stage can help you stand out from the crowd and can be a make or break factor of the experience for your audience. But before you commit to an event stage design, it’s important to consider all the factors that go into creating one. Support your event goals and impress your audience with the following guide. Whether you’re an event planning pro or a total beginner, you have the power to create your own stage design simply by mastering the basic concepts of production design.

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