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From Button Boxes To Chats: Audience Response Systems Through Time!

Endless Events

One of the hottest topics in the events industry nowadays is hybrid and virtual audience engagement. But as the Event Tech Podcast highlights today, you can’t really talk about audience engagement without including audience response systems in the conversations. Audience Response Systems Are Not New.

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The Ins & Outs Of Hybrid Audience Engagement

Endless Events

We’ve talked a lot about virtual events in the past and how we keep the audience engaged. But when it comes to hybrid audience engagement, you are literally dealing with two different sets of attendees. A hybrid event is the combination of an in-person audience and a virtual audience. Blur the audiences together.

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How AI is Revolutionizing Travel and Events

Smart Meetings

Read More : Winning at Maximizing Virtual Audience Engagement: 10 Fun Ideas from Dahlia El Gazzar Virtual travel also offers flexibility. In addition to travel, we extend our virtual touring capabilities across numerous sectors such as news, healthcare, education, sports, events, and real estate.

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The Live Events Industry Needs Your Voice: Support a NAICS Code Revision

Smart Meetings

Sporting Events (local/professional sports, marathons, tournaments, rodeos). Together, they represent a vital economic force, connecting communities, businesses, and audiences. The Live Events Industry is a vast and diverse ecosystem encompassing six primary verticals: 1.

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From Distraction to Engagement Supercharger: Putting Your Audiences’ Phones to Use

Smart Meetings

One presenter at a recent conference made the mistake of scolding her audience to turn phones off and put them under their seats. She was met with groans; about a third of the audience left, and the rest ignored her command. Rather than being a distraction, mobile devices can be the surprising key to increasing audience engagement.

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Canadian Tariffs Triggering Reputation Tarnish for U.S. Destinations

Smart Meetings

Destinations worldwide are fighting for this audience. Exclusive, immersive, authentic and customized luxury experiences beyond hotels, including fine dining, wine tasting, events, sports and visiting Californias large Indian population is a big draw. But competition is fierce. They are affluent, stay longer and spend more.

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Rebranded PCMA Embraced World Stage at Convening Leaders Conference

Smart Meetings

Professor and podcaster Scott Galloway predicted a nuclear and AI-powered future and entreated the audience to mentor young men looking for direction. Flights, dining, Tex-Mex culture is all there, Karamat said after sporting a large cowboy hat on stage. How different? Its not supposed to be comfortable.