Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

“Live webinars in addition to the summits where we do three hours of education, we now teach the majority of all of our certificate sessions online. What we found is that it really does us no good to source the speakers more than six months out because something will come up then they’re not able to do it.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 11, 2018

The speaker drones on, reading from their notecards or plain white powerpoint slides. You can efficiently learn so much actually listening to the speaker. Even the most famous public speakers don’t just wing it. Speakers need to tailor the content to their audience. Basic information they can find online.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 20, 2022

To successfully recreate the in-person experience online, planners need to consider the following challenges. How to create serendipity and exciting spontaneity of in-person event experiences online? Make Your Online Audience Feel Seen. Make Online Networking as Easy as Possible. Maintain eye contact with the camera.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

This person will moderate the chat, take questions, and pass them on to the speakers, as well as consistently work to engage with those who can’t be physically present. And keep in mind that no one wants to look at heavy and long presentations for hours on end. Not Training Your Speakers. Disregarding The Online Audience.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 19, 2021

“We’ve created online summits long before people were doing online events”, says Phil. So yeah everything we’re doing in 2021 is going to somehow be online. “We had a speaker who spoke for us two years in a row. And he was one of our top-rated speakers the first year.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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? Speaker recruiting? Mostly because my panelists are tech people and not always the best speakers????. Use an online poll to start the session. Kelley Kassa.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 8, 2022

With so many attendees used to free events, expectations are high for paid events. “They [online audiences] are far less captive and will have increasingly high expectations around the quality and value of these experiences. Feature live interviews with speakers, entertainers and organizational leaders.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

Today’s successful hybrid events celebrate and amplify the offline physical event online. Consider speakers for your hybrid event. It goes without saying that keynote speakers often resonate much better in person and, therefore, should likely be giving a presentation from the main stage. Tapping into The Differences.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 24, 2021

And most importantly for this podcast, he is the founder and CEO of Shindig , a virtual conference, event, and meeting platform that has mastered the art of online engagement. There are going to be companies who’ll say that the pandemic taught them what is possible online. We can achieve miracles online!

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2022

Now we’re onto the next challenge: making the virtual event a great online experience. What do they hear between the formal presentations? Food is another way to keep the audience in front of your presentation, instead of getting up to go to the fridge. How can your digital meeting beat a Netflix binge or mindless scrolling?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

One of the things I’m seeing is that the most successful [virtual events] are making sure you have a team in place to start the online conversation,” Farmanfarmaian said. “If If you want people to be engaged in talking to each other during the actual presentations and asking questions in the chat, you have to prime it.”.

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Endless Events

MAY 20, 2021

It’s hard to build connections with presenters or attendees through a screen. In the last 10 years, you’ve seen a major shift where most people actually connect online at the event. So why is it that we want people to be half paying attention to the speaker and then being in the chat? Is that just me?”

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Smart Meetings

MAY 5, 2021

A few possibilities for virtual event planners to provide networking opportunities for attendees include: Live chat tools alongside a session (part of the platform), where attendees can ask questions to the presenter and engage with each other. Provide this as a sample message template to all speakers.

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Endless Events

MARCH 24, 2022

We’ve outlined 77 event KPIs and divided them into eight major groups: general and attendee event KPIs , financial event KPIs , marketing KPIs , audience engagement KPIs , presenter KPIs , sponsorship and tradeshow KPIs , event networking KPIs , community KPIs. Presenter KPIs. Speaker profile visits. Tradeshow KPIs.

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Endless Events

MAY 7, 2020

” “The only problem is that the people that have that kind of content that have been speakers for a long time”, he adds. “Not only in just repeating content but also just really poor presentation performance too”, says Nick. “I think I’m getting a lot of good feedback on the content too. .

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Endless monologues from the speakers wasn’t something attendees loved with in-person, to begin with. In order to combat webinar fatigue, presenters and speakers alike must make a serious effort in order to establish a consistent, engaging dialogue with the audience. It’s up to us to tell unforgettable stories.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The venue was perfect and the speakers top-notch. Speakers want to present remotely, and attendees and sponsors are starting to drop off. What if travel policies change, and speakers, attendees and sponsors start to cancel? What if you and your audience and speakers lack experience with hybrid events?

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 21, 2022

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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Endless Events

JUNE 1, 2020

Now that your attendees are no longer physically present, engagement becomes more important than ever, and an event app can go a long way in helping you out with this. As we discussed in our article about virtual attendee engagement , low-quality content and unprepared speakers are a sure way to drive the audience away.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 26, 2021

On 14th July, Hubilo hosted their first virtual event and presented the next generation of virtual and hybrid events. In the past 18 months, we’ve seen a rapid evolution of virtual events regarding event technology platforms and online experiences. Before 1995, the idea of virtual presentations or webinars did not exist.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

But this is no easy feat; research shows that 46% of event organizers say that speakers struggle to simultaneously engage a virtual and in-person audience. One of the greatest benefits of asynchronous communication is that participants can take time to digest information and present their answers when they are ready.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2022

“Today, we have capabilities to deliver live holograms of speakers with little to no latency for real-time interactions with an audience of any size and costs have been reduced dramatically,” shared O’Reilly in a recent chat. “If If you’re looking to make a greater impact and create a ‘WOW!’

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Endless Events

AUGUST 4, 2020

For instance, you probably read every article under the sun teaching you about virtual audience engagement, sponsorships, speakers, and more. We are eager to share ideas around enhancements you can add, and different approaches you can take to stage your speakers so they look their best. Speaker rehearsals scheduling.

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Endless Events

MARCH 19, 2020

It’s not the AV company who says, “Hey, here’s a speaker, good luck. Yeah, you need this speaker and I’ll set it up for you,” and you have no idea how it works. Pick your best presentations and put them online.” “I think we’re about to see a revolution in remote speakers.

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Endless Events

APRIL 1, 2020

It’s one thing to have someone physically present in a space and tuning out. Sure, engaging remote attendees is harder than engaging those who are physically present. Keep the hype alive by sending out relevant information about the event – who are the speakers? Hire The Right Speakers – And Coach Them!

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2020

You can create a podcast that features your audience, speakers, and sponsors as a new way to sell sponsorship slots and stay relevant. Interview your audience, speakers, or sponsors. Hi , {{Personalize your intro with something you saw about them or their platform online.}}. A great solution? Never produced a podcast before?

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

People aren’t paying attention to your presentation. I have witnessed this firsthand, creating presentations for the better part of 25 years. I’ve interviewed enough people to know that corporate presentations are too often bloated, meandering content dumps on our audiences. Clarity: Have a reason to present.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A lot of online stuff is going to the wayside. As bean counters start to look for other ways to save money, they’re going to look at the 2020 and 2021 budgets, which were significantly lower because we were doing online events. Use these tools, so you’re doing several online events throughout the year as your top-of-the-funnel.

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Endless Events

APRIL 22, 2020

This will include things like speaker fees, entertainment fees, event platforms , the technical and production costs, and so on. Instead of checking out virtual event pricing from other events, take a look at online course platforms. A great way to get a benchmark is to see how these online courses are priced.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2021

While a handful of deeply digital-oriented companies are pulling off hybrid events, speaker agencies surveyed in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom report booking speakers for hybrid events only 5 percent to 10 percent of the time. We can also secure bigger speakers for less money as they don’t have to travel.”

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

I had never actually done what would now be considered a virtual event or an online event. We had keynote presenters who had full presentations ready to go. We looked at what that would look like in an online environment.” And to Stephanie’s point, it doesn’t matter if they’re presenting live.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It’s hard for the speaker to monitor the chat and answer Q&As while presenting. Rather than being active participants, they just sit and listen to your virtual speaker. No matter how hard we try to replicate the in-person experience at virtual events, the way we engage online is simply not the same.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2021

The cost savings are just too compelling, and online events are less disruptive. And with the right technology , the networking and interaction in online events can mimic the natural mixing and mingling of in-person gatherings.”. Li Hayes of speaker management agency Go Leeward argued here in early August that hybrid is dead.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 11, 2022

See also : What the Most Popular Speakers in the World Have in Common. When a presentation is better produced than your average webinar, a surprising thing happens. People have been shocked to see presenters standing up. That way it is less about event planning and more about broadcasting,” she said. People pay attention.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The head of a major speakers bureau provides insight on hot topics, interesting formats, and rising cost concerns for keynoters and other featured speakers. MeetingsNet: Now that the post-pandemic business landscape has some stability, what is different in what corporate groups are looking to get from their speakers?

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 30, 2021

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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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Now so many meetings are online, it’s easy to saddle remote workers with back-to-back meetings. But you can stay on time at online meetings when they’re your meetings — if you follow the guidance below! Before the online meeting starts. Tip: Here’s how to start online meetings on time.). Who isn’t?

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