Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

People aren’t paying attention to your presentation. But the truth is, audiences were tuning out long before we ever started upgrading our work from home setups. I have witnessed this firsthand, creating presentations for the better part of 25 years. Clarity: Have a reason to present. I think about presentations as gifts.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 8, 2022

Audiences will pay for quality content. With so many attendees used to free events, expectations are high for paid events. “They [online audiences] are far less captive and will have increasingly high expectations around the quality and value of these experiences. published by the Virtua Events Institute.

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Endless Events

MARCH 17, 2020

Moving to a Virtual Event – How do I get it online? . Moving your event online will require several moving parts. The first steps are to look at your event and visualize what your ideal online event would look like. How will attendees ask questions during presentations? To truly engage your audience you can do more!

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 20, 2022

To successfully recreate the in-person experience online, planners need to consider the following challenges. How to create serendipity and exciting spontaneity of in-person event experiences online? Your audience should understand that it’s a real event you’re planning, not just another webinar resembling a conference call. .

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Thanks to this knack for adaptability, a surge in virtual events completely shifted the paradigm, and audiences were introduced to brand new ways to connect and experience the world. One of the most glaring hybrid event mistakes planners incur is ignoring the virtual audience (more on that later). Both audiences will thank you!

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

Content can certainly be consumed at the same time, but the experience for each of those audience sets is going to need to be optimized for both,” Peltier says. That’s really what you’re aiming for with the virtual audience.” See also: 4 Shortcuts to Keep Your Audience from Zoning Out. Peltier says. The Challenges.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2022

Now we’re onto the next challenge: making the virtual event a great online experience. Cut the Quality and You’ll Cut Your audience. You need to invest in a platform that supports high-quality broadcast video, and you need skilled professionals who can design compelling content to keep your audience engaged.

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Endless Events

JUNE 7, 2021

They cover all levels of staffing at hybrid events, beginning at basic customer support and tricks for higher audience engagement. I imagine having hype people, not only in the chat virtually, but also in-person to hype up the audience. You’re not going to show the same intro video for both audiences.”

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Because audiences are participating from home, it’s easy to get sidetracked by the dog or the mailman. A great way to keep your audience from tuning out during the event is to gamify some aspects of the experience. Particularly over the past few months, we all sort of bonded over the excitement of online shopping.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

What makes a hybrid event synchronous is that both hybrid audiences experience the same event, at the same time. But this is no easy feat; research shows that 46% of event organizers say that speakers struggle to simultaneously engage a virtual and in-person audience. Why asynchronous events? Each gets full, undivided attention.

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Social Tables

JUNE 8, 2022

Audience engagement plays a significant role in the success of any event. Whether in-person or online, event organizers want attendees to pay attention and participate. In fact, more than 80% of marketing professionals believe that audience engagement is a key indicator of an event’s success. Understand your audience.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Last week I immensely enjoyed participating in a two-hour Zoom brain trust on moderating online panels. So good, it should be shared with a wider audience. What are 1-2 of your online moderating pro tips? Tools and techniques for engaging the audience. Ensure your audience knows you care…AND your panelist knows you care.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 24, 2021

As the industry pivoted to virtual events, virtual audience engagement became one of the most talked-about challenges. And most importantly for this podcast, he is the founder and CEO of Shindig , a virtual conference, event, and meeting platform that has mastered the art of online engagement. We can achieve miracles online!

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

The answer is to understand both your in-person and virtual audiences while creating powerful experiences for both. Today’s successful hybrid events celebrate and amplify the offline physical event online. In this new era, event organizers must develop strategies for each audience. Tapping into The Differences.

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2020

You can create a podcast that features your audience, speakers, and sponsors as a new way to sell sponsorship slots and stay relevant. We break down each step of creating a podcast along the way so that you can use podcasting as a new revenue stream for events and offer even more value to your audience. A great solution? Don’t worry.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 19, 2021

“We’ve created online summits long before people were doing online events”, says Phil. So yeah everything we’re doing in 2021 is going to somehow be online. Content For Virtual Events: The Audience. When tackling the topic of content for virtual events, Phil circles it back to the audience.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 3, 2020

How can we create great online breakout sessions? The presenter begins, and you quickly realize the session is not going to meet your needs. (Or, Whether a breakout session is in-person or online, the way for a leader or presenter to make it great is to: quickly uncover audience interests at the start of the session; and.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In this particular case, we’re not talking about engagement between attendees, but rather the complex relationship between the talking heads and the audience. In order to combat webinar fatigue, presenters and speakers alike must make a serious effort in order to establish a consistent, engaging dialogue with the audience.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

You need two teams, one for in-person, on-site and one for online planning. You can easily shift your live audience to attend online by adding virtual registration codes so check that your registration company can accommodate both. Online Component Added Costs. Online moderator fees. Streaming capture device.

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Endless Events

JUNE 1, 2020

Now that your attendees are no longer physically present, engagement becomes more important than ever, and an event app can go a long way in helping you out with this. As we discussed in our article about virtual attendee engagement , low-quality content and unprepared speakers are a sure way to drive the audience away.

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Endless Events

MAY 20, 2021

It’s hard to build connections with presenters or attendees through a screen. In the last 10 years, you’ve seen a major shift where most people actually connect online at the event. “Presenters wanted to do such a good job on presentations that attendees wouldn’t even look at their phones.

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Endless Events

MARCH 24, 2022

We’ve outlined 77 event KPIs and divided them into eight major groups: general and attendee event KPIs , financial event KPIs , marketing KPIs , audience engagement KPIs , presenter KPIs , sponsorship and tradeshow KPIs , event networking KPIs , community KPIs. Presenter KPIs. People online per time (hour) of day.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Not only do they talk about this particular event platform’s solutions, but they also nerd out about data analytics, virtual audience engagement strategies, and the ROI of virtual events. I had never actually done what would now be considered a virtual event or an online event. Designing Virtual Audience Engagement.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2021

The cost savings are just too compelling, and online events are less disruptive. And with the right technology , the networking and interaction in online events can mimic the natural mixing and mingling of in-person gatherings.”. Hybrid events still present challenges, but offer unique benefits as well. Hybrid Events.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 26, 2021

On 14th July, Hubilo hosted their first virtual event and presented the next generation of virtual and hybrid events. In the past 18 months, we’ve seen a rapid evolution of virtual events regarding event technology platforms and online experiences. To hook and WOW audiences.’ . Vaibhav continued, ‘Today, we have evolved.

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Endless Events

MAY 7, 2020

“Not only in just repeating content but also just really poor presentation performance too”, says Nick. Someone who’s like this” “I’ve seen a lot of people who are not presenters talking about a topic that they kind of know a little bit about. This is like a breath of fresh air.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hybrid events—whether they are conferences, expos or training courses—are meetings that can be accessed in person at a physical location, or remotely via an online platform. Make audience input easy. Present unique and thought-provoking content. Read More : How to Keep the C-level Engaged In-person and Online.

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Endless Events

JUNE 10, 2022

Survey Your Audience To Get Post-Event Feedback. It’s the fuel you’ll need to improve your future events, as well as a way to maintain a connection with your audience. The fastest and easiest way to survey your audience is during the event itself. Did we promote to the right audience for the event?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Speakers want to present remotely, and attendees and sponsors are starting to drop off. Know your audience. Make sure it stays true to audience needs. If infections spike and you need to cancel your in-person event, you’ll still have valuable digital content to share with your audience. Then along came Delta.

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Endless Events

MARCH 15, 2021

The online experience could never replace that. They haven’t spent a lot of energy on online events until they had to. Now, all of a sudden, they’re putting a lot of energy into online events and that’s really the catalyst. “There’s still going to be a lot in the online world.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As much as I’d like to say we’re reincorporating the in-person audience, there’s definitely a rush to just do in-person,” he says. “A A lot of online stuff is going to the wayside. That means people are planning events with no regard for the virtual audience. Then, a couple of months later, do another online event.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“One of the things I’m seeing is that the most successful [virtual events] are making sure you have a team in place to start the online conversation,” Farmanfarmaian said. “If If you want people to be engaged in talking to each other during the actual presentations and asking questions in the chat, you have to prime it.”.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It’s hard for the speaker to monitor the chat and answer Q&As while presenting. But money saved also means ROI lost: the champion of March 2020 does not deliver on audience engagement and valuable data insights – and these are essential for an event’s success. Enhanced virtual audience engagement.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The Ins & Outs Of Hybrid Audience Engagement. ?? Over a million people attended this year’s virtual electronic music festival and were impressed by its ability to still wow its attendees on the online platform. This list of 15 hybrid event mistakes to avoid might help you dodge an event catastrophe. ?

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The AV industry, whether that’s your in-house hotel AAV or even third-party production companies, is struggling to be fully staffed up as we start to reincorporate in-person audiences into our event strategies.” “When producing hybrid events , we want to treat the in-person and virtual audiences differently.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Will and the live audience had a lot of questions for our new host. To break boundaries that we hadn’t been able to break before with virtual presenters and being able to bring them in real-time. “It’s about how that affects the 5,000 people that are watching online when it comes to their hybrid event.

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Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

“Live webinars in addition to the summits where we do three hours of education, we now teach the majority of all of our certificate sessions online. An interesting topic that comes up is related to attendance, and how many people are present during the live event versus the ones that watch the recording. The Timing.

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