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How to support a community online during covid-19

Conferences that Work

How can you support a community online during covid-19? Over the last few weeks I’ve run numerous online Zoom meetings for support groups and local, social, and professional communities. Breakout room functionality is essential for your online meeting platform. That’s what online breakout rooms are for.

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Moderating Online Panels — Ideas and Resources

Conferences that Work

Last week I immensely enjoyed participating in a two-hour Zoom brain trust on moderating online panels. What are 1-2 of your online moderating pro tips? Use shared documents to seek feedback and capture insights from large groups. Use an online poll to start the session. So good, it should be shared with a wider audience.

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Facilitating an online participation-rich workshop in Gatherly

Conferences that Work

I decided to facilitate an online workshop in Gatherly that took full advantage of the platform. Gatherly’s best feature, in my opinion, is its user interface for online social interaction. So I was excited to see whether I could implement body voting online, something I’d never tried before. ” (run in trios).

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Lessons learned from online meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Conferences that Work

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has published some useful lessons learned from organizing six online scientific meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online meetings improve access and attendance. Online events make it easier for them to attend. Online platforms and tools used.

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From Planners to Producers: Tech Tips for Virtual Event Success

Smart Meetings

Now we’re onto the next challenge: making the virtual event a great online experience. Beyond having the presentations available on demand, which has become fairly standard, what about sharing supporting documents? We were riding the bike while building it, and despite some early stumbles, most of us have mastered the basics.

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Best of 2021: Resources for Meeting Professionals

Smart Meetings

This year, meeting professionals and event tech experts have determined and developed a variety of resources for building, organizing and managing effective and compelling online and in-person gatherings—and those that fall in between. Top 10 Apps for Meeting Professionals. even if you’re an American citizen.

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15 Best Collaboration Tools for Event Planning

Endless Events

It allows teams to share assets (fonts, images, colors) and collaborate on documents. Allows you to create beautiful documents with rich media right there in the app. Requires paid upgrade for more file storage and more than three trackable documents. Plus, it’sits Paper feature offers document templates and meeting notes.