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7 Tips for Driving Attendee Engagement at Virtual Events

Smart Meetings

Yet, despite the high potential for virtual events due to cost savings and ease of access, there is a considerable challenge ahead for event organizers to deliver a truly valuable experience by replicating the networking opportunities for attendees that exist during live events. Adam Riggs is CEO of Frameable and Social Hour.

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How Did You Get Started in the Events Industry?

Endless Events

I was building websites and was able to find a way to make money doing that for a guy who had a marketing company and was also the dean at our local college of communications.” . I spoke there for the first time in 2005 or 2006 and had a good 12-year run on the show. I found them through a website called Desk Mod.

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. This is not another success story about becoming a writer. Write a book?

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Meetings Due Diligence in the Aftermath of a Disaster

MeetingsNet

Will their organization and attendees be better served by cancelling and relocating the program, or stay the course at the original destination and hope the lights will be on and the AV running by the meeting’s scheduled dates? Monitor key websites and news sources. Poll your stakeholders. What criteria are they using?

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How and Why Visit Indy Adopted an All-Digital Marketing Approach

Crowdriff

When Jeff Robinson began working for Visit Indy as a digital designer 11 years ago, the destination marketing organization had only just begun its transition from print to digital. We wanted to capture the UGC photos and put them in a gallery on our website ,” said Robinson. million in 2005 to more than 26 million in 2014.

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Bringing the Maker Movement to Events

Convene by PCMA

He founded and is president of Make: Community, which, according to its website, has been at the heart of the maker movement — celebrating everyone from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers — since 2005. It’s a way for people to connect to other people in that organization differently.”

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Glamping As a Trend: Business and Technological Perspective

AltexSoft Travel

The term glamping was coined in 2005 and recently became one of the biggest travel trends – among other popular portmanteaus like bleisure , staycations, workation, ecotourism , and so on (today people seem to totally love those blends). Website builder and a booking engine to develop powerful web presence. GlampManager’s Dashboard.