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Now, venues also play a big part in promoting attendee safety and facilitating the technology necessary to engage the virtual audience. There’s a considerable portion of your audience attending remotely, be it from their homes or other spokes. It’s no longer just about the experience taking place on-site.
Because now you’ll have to consider both the in-person experience and the remote experience. Arguably the most overwhelming part of planning a hybrid event is the fact that you have to plan for two audiences. But we cannot stress enough the importance of giving both audiences the same amount of love. For the virtual one?
The ones that can provide Q&A, polling, all of the stuff that we were looking at for interactivity and engagement in our in-person events translated to an online event that can also be viewed remotely. That way, the in-person audience and the remoteaudience are using the same platform.
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