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Winning at Maximizing Virtual Audience Engagement: 10 Fun Ideas from Dahlia El Gazzar

Smart Meetings

Think of what you can ask in registration and then categorize this into what will and won’t work at your event, or what’s tangible and intangible.”. Designed by an event planner, this company curates fun virtual experiences in addition to their signature gift boxes. A great engagement gift for influencers too! Cheers In A Box.

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job. But when you’re spending all your time on these issues it’s easy to forget that they are not what meetings are about. Because they make assumptions that what has to happen is what happened at just about every meeting their authors ever attended.

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40 Outstanding Event Industry Blogs to Follow

Endless Events

Eventbrite is a global platform provi ding online event registration solutions to event organizers, but their blog is jam-packed with fast-reads on the general subjects of event planning, promotion and tech. It’s great that so many event industry blogs now have podcasts too! In this case, it’s the GatherGeeks podcast. Eventbrite.

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Don’t keep me a secret!

Conferences that Work

” “Substance, not celebrity… celebrity speakers will not boost registrations. So, if you’re one of the thousands of people who have purchased my books or the hundreds of clients who have benefited from my meeting design and facilitation services, please don’t keep me a secret! © Freeman 2024.

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

Conferences that Work

Also solicited/accepted are keynote/motivational speakers who get paid large fees and provide exciting presentations with, in my experience, little or no content of long-term value to the meeting attendees. In my case, the demand for the meeting design and facilitation services I provide has been exploding. (In

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Event Statistics: 17 Current Planning Stats that Could Change Your Business Today

Social Tables

Some seating issues we heard back about in our seating survey included participants having trouble understanding the layout, not being connected enough to the speaker, and needing more spatial/seating flexibility for networking. Additionally, creating serial content can help spur engagement and drive registration between events. (Oh,

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Elevating Virtual Events: Transforming In-Person Meetings to Digital

Brightspot Incentive Events

To execute a successful virtual event, our team was tasked with developing a strategy that enhanced meeting design, optimized the attendee’s experience, and increased attendee engagement. There also needs to be someone seamlessly transitioning between speakers and breaks. Virtual Event Platform and AV Partner.