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Acquisition to Enhance Breakout Rooms Could be First Step Toward Zoomiverse

Smart Meetings

million in seed funding to start twine , which they describe as “a remote-first company that facilitates serendipitous virtual meetings by facilitating strings of short meetings in virtual windows.” These two early-stage companies were showered with VC money based in part on their tech cred.

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How to Foster Inclusion At Events

Endless Events

But on the matter of inclusion at events, our host Tahira Endean sat down with Maarten Vannest e of the Meeting Design Institute. “With remote, you can organize it short-term, you have much more flexibility. “On top of it, with RSI you can also have delegates and participants listening remotely”, he adds.

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Why our meetings are still full of lectures

Conferences that Work

Why are our meetings still full of lectures? With new technology of remote learning, you don’t need school children to be in a school building with a number of teachers. Learning researchers and our best teachers and meeting designers have known this for a long time. It’s just the opposite.

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Hub and spoke meetings

Conferences that Work

…What’s a hub and spoke meeting? A hub and spoke meeting is one where there’s a central hub meeting or event that additional groups (aka “pods”) of people join remotely. In-person meeting : participants are physically together. Hub and spoke is an event network topology.

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Moving from Virtual to Hybrid Events: 37 Tips to Maximize Your Success

Stova

A hybrid event is one that combines a face-to-face (F2F) event at a physical location with a “virtual” online component for remote attendees. Some attendees may simply accept remote event attendance as an acceptable substitute with no travel time, no travel costs and reduced environmental impact.

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The Rise of LinkedIn

Convene by PCMA

A case in point: During the years that Juraj Holub, a digital marketing and branding expert, worked as chief meeting designer for interactive meeting software tool Slido, he used LinkedIn to connect with the contacts he made at the conferences he attended all over the world.

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Prescribing a Hub-and-Spoke Approach

Convene by PCMA

Nine expert speakers (one remote) broadcast training sessions from the main studio in Rome, with 180 remote participants. In a post on his Conferences that Work blog , conference designer Adrian Segar writes: “If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings.

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