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8 Engagement Tips for Your Next Hybrid Event

Smart Meetings

Are you producing your own video and audio content to stream or share with hybrid event attendees? In the virtual space, this could involve XR avatars “meeting” in virtual breakout rooms, or communicating through a multi-participant instant messenger or video chat. Harness the power of social media at every stage.

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Virtual Meetings Are Missing These Two Things, Meta Is Working on a Fix

Smart Meetings

This isn’t really something you can do over a video conference,” he said. It’s amazing how far video conferencing has gotten without the ability to make eye contact. You’re looking at someone’s face for an hour when you’re in a meeting and you looking at their eyes, to them, doesn’t look like you’re looking at their eyes.”.

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Work-Life Balance for Wedding Planners 

The Planner's Lounge

For solo planners, consider outsourcing business functions like accounting or social media management to free up time. Virtual Meetings: Opting for video calls or phone meetings can save travel time, reserving in-person meetings for essential discussions.

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DMA West: Going Viral, What’s Trending and Crisis Communication

Smart Meetings

Here are takeaways every meeting professional can benefit from. 60 percent of travelers post on social media daily. Tod Maffin , president of Vancouver, British Columbia-based social media agency EngageQ , shared six steps to increase your chances of building a viral marketing campaign—and some lol-worthy examples.

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5 Event Planning Magazines to Inspire Your Next Event

Social Tables

The inspiration for your events can come from just about anywhere: event planning magazines, colleagues, other events, or social media. These event planning magazines, both digital and print, can help inspire your next big event idea. Meetings & Conventions. Click To Tweet. MeetingsNet.

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The Inc. 5000 List Gives Insight into Meeting and Event Trends

MeetingsNet

Silver Lining Design (#2,477) creates event environments and The SnapBar , a company that enables attendees to record and publish to social media video and photos at events, broke into the top 500 companies on the list by making it to #473 with almost a 1,000 percent growth rate over the last three years. Media Image.

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The 15 Best Podcasts For Event Planners

Bizzabo

Though it may seem like social media has dominated interactions between event professionals and event marketers, event influencers are tuning into podcasts as an alternative means for sharing event planning tips, tricks, and best practices. The Best Event Planning Podcasts. The Meeting Planning Madness Podcast.