Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As the dimensions of accessibility and inclusivity ever evolve, so are meetings required to grow, learn and train within the same spectrum authentically inviting underrepresented communities to the discussion. How can meetings become more accessible and inclusive?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This is the tantalizing topic Brian Ludwig, senior vice president of sales for Cvent , tackles in Smart Meetings’ most recent webinar, “One Step Ahead, Predicting the Future of Event Technology.”. “It’s In this webinar, Ludwig touched on three developments he sees on the horizon for events. Of course, he was right.

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Endless Events

JUNE 19, 2020

You’re either a planner eager to learn how you can set your virtual speaker up for success, or you’re a speaker looking to be trained in the art of virtual presentations. Virtual means a shorter attention span, high chances of webinar fatigue, and a greater need for something that will keep the audience absorbed.

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Endless Events

MARCH 17, 2020

Webinar/Live Stream Type Format . Many people have attended online webinars or live streams. The downside of webinars and live streams is that they do not allow for much audience engagement beyond polling, or chat outside of when the webinar or live stream is live. This is probably the format you are most familiar with.

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Endless Events

JULY 7, 2022

“There’s the training meeting, an all-day conference, a webinar … It’s easier for us to identify what technology is best suited for each of them. The one-hour webinar doesn’t need all the features that an all-day educational event is going to need.”

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Bizzaboo

AUGUST 1, 2022

More and more event professionals and marketing teams are turning to webinars to engage prospects, customers, and even employees in a more cost-effective way. In fact, a report from ResearchAndMarkets.com found that the global webinar market — which stood at $1.57 What is a webinar? 18% of events are webinars.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Watch the entire webinar here. Tactics to encourage attendee engagement are wide-ranging, dependent on attendance numbers and often differ case-by-case. The post Are Your Attendees Engaged? Three Experts Share How They Do It appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2021

And as we leave a year marked by Zoom webinars, shaky cameras, and subpar audio, we enter a new age. Speaker Training: Bigger & Better. Sure, they will get smarter about what cameras and microphones to use for high-quality sessions, but a significant part of the budget should be directed towards speaker training.

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ADMEI

JANUARY 3, 2024

Most industries have associations and organizations that do just that: provide community and belonging, offer training and support, and strive to improve industry conditions and culture. Most organizations host webinars, in-person conferences, and think tanks designed to provide key information and insights about your industry.

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Endless Events

JULY 10, 2020

We are known for our yearly event trends guide, but this year we stepped it up a notch and created a 2020 Virtual Event Trends Webinar! People are experiencing webinar fatigue, they don’t want any more time in front of the computer than necessary, and they are itching to participate in the world as it opens back up.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 20, 2018

“We have not been [here] before,” said MGM senior vice president of MGM Resorts International Mike Dominguez, in a recent Smart Meetings webinar , referring to the state of the hotel industry going into 2019. You can view all archived webinars at SmartMeetings.com.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 2, 2023

Listen to the entire webinar here. Cross-training staff allows you to delegate tasks to team members so that multiple people can support when needed. Create an implementation strategy to address training and onboarding and starting the initial build. Nguyen posed a few questions for planners to ask themselves. “Is

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Endless Events

AUGUST 4, 2021

“If you want to integrate an audience response system and use it through your event process, provide training to your speakers much further in advance.” ” Speaker training is one of the biggest event trends of the year and its importance simply cannot be overstated.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Digitization had not yet reached the point where you could watch webinars or videos with the course content,” she says. She remains dedicated today, relying regularly on the resources of technical literature, surveys, podcasts and digital webinars—and, not to mention, intensive exchange with clients and business leaders. she recalls.

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Endless Events

MARCH 12, 2021

We witnessed Zoom webinars evolve into broadcasting-quality, full-fledged digital experiences. David Whelan is the CEO of Immersive VR Education , which sells a VR training and collaboration platform called Engage. And all of this happened thanks to the wonderful opportunities put forward by technology.

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ADMEI

MARCH 20, 2024

Be Light Consulting offers keynotes, training, and transformational executive coaching to help individuals as well as organizations master their own Flow State. Follow us on social media and subscribe to our emails to receive updates about the 2025 Annual Conference dates, upcoming webinars (members-only), and other educational opportunities.

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Endless Events

MARCH 24, 2020

And we had actually done a live webinar where we had a big desk and we had a multi-camera shoot. We’re doing a 90-minute webinar or a live stream six times today, tomorrow and Friday. ” So our VP training is watching this live, he sees that go out. We were six days into 18 days of new products. AV Technology.

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Endless Events

MARCH 16, 2018

If you need more, drop by our audience engagement webinar. It’s searchable, and is invaluable in helping train new team members, no matter what field you are in! You also have to feed the needs of the audience to capture their attention and interact. And don’t forget to use technology, since interactivity is built into it.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2022

In Tuesday’s webinar, Peckinpaugh addressed how to be a competitive and clued-in recruiter and leader, how to prepare the next generation for meetings and how to prepare the industry for the next generation of talent. To hear the full conversation, listen on demand.

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Endless Events

JULY 18, 2020

We are known for our yearly event trends guide, but this year we stepped it up a notch and created a 2020 Virtual Event Trends Webinar! July 16th – Will is doing another round of DES certification training – if you haven’t already, you need to sign up ASAP because the classes have already started!

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hybrid events—whether they are conferences, expos or training courses—are meetings that can be accessed in person at a physical location, or remotely via an online platform. These features can encompass e-books, white papers, video tutorials, training simulations or study guides. Don’t try to replicate in-person events.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 18, 2020

In the case of our industry, it translated into v irtual events being put together in a haze, an uneducated frenzy, a collective hallucination of Zoom webinars that led absolutely nowhere. It leads us to make poor decisions. So…now what? Stop Slacking Off, Start Planning.

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Endless Events

JUNE 29, 2020

With an increase in virtual events, webinars, and live streaming, many are afraid that this will be the only way going forward. Watch a webinar on how to protect your event from a possible cybersecurity attack. Seated dining could be an option if the staff members are trained thoroughly with all the sanitization practices.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

“We’re used to doing that for our webinars and we definitely recommend that to all of our customers when it comes to executing sessions virtually. “You have to train your virtual speakers , making sure they feel confident and comfortable when it comes to presenting in an event. How is this all going to flow?”

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Endless Events

MAY 16, 2022

“They started with Peloton the bike, but have expanded into offering other types of classes, from running, stretching, strength training, yoga, and more.” Attendees can start by going to the event and end up coming to your webinars, networking groups, and masterminds,” says Will. And it’s not an afterthought.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Thankfully, Ron Fariss, sales manager for the internet services division of meetings and events company PSAV , and the most recent Smart Meetings webinar host, had several suggestions for how planners can ensure they know what they are paying for with hotel internet.

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Endless Events

MAY 22, 2020

Even though it’s easy to believe all of these experiences will inevitably look like the boring old webinar, having a virtual event production team on board will empower you to make the experience unique and as close to an in-person event as possible. It can train your speakers and arm them with best practices.

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Blue Spark Event Design

AUGUST 16, 2021

They quickly became overwhelmed with the additional planning, execution, and branding involved with a virtual event, and they literally ran out of time to train the lifeblood of the conference – their virtual speakers, and panelists. When they called us in a panic to help them train over eighty virtual speakers, our team was ready.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 7, 2023

Wellness Matters Webinar with Dr. Romie The Science of Achieving Michelle Roark Michelle Roark , an Olympic athlete, scientist and CEO of Phia Lab, shared her experience overcoming homelessness to achieve her dreams of being an Olympic athlete, a chemical engineer and an entrepreneur, helping others tap into their constructive frequencies.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

Jason Thomson is an events content and creative director who coaches and trains on improving your presentations and communications. He’s covering some of the engagement tools in the article at his latest free Instant Fix Webinar. Register at speakupgetresults.com/instantfix.

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Endless Events

JULY 3, 2020

June 30 (Tomorrow!) – 1 PM CDT – Will is doing a webinar with PCMA about Thinking Outside the Typical Lecture. ? July 7th – 9 AM MST – Will is doing a webinar on What Does “Virtual” Really Mean For Event Pros? Join us at @owambesplash. ? Silly Scientific Findings.

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Endless Events

APRIL 3, 2020

April 21 – 1:00 pm CDT – Will and Brandt will be hosting a free webinar on 5G and Digital Events: Evolution or Revolution. ?? Use code “plaxen$49off” to get $49 off of this awesome training! Where in the world is Endless? Did you know we’re completely remote across the world? The coolest part?

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Endless Events

APRIL 28, 2020

At the very least, go with someone who is willing to undergo some training from people who’ve done it before. # Event though webinars have been around for a while, they aren’t anywhere near as popular as in-person events. 5 Choosing The Wrong Platform. Because truth is, virtual events are still relatively new.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A group of professionals with expertise in wellness—its nuances, scope and impact—gathered for a recent Smart Meetings webinar, “How to Avoid Wellness Washing.” To see the full discussion, view the webinar on demand. These three experts were David T.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

If further proof was needed, the latest Smart Meetings webinar, “ Event Tech Survival Guide ,” should be next on your to-do list. We’re seeing a lot of investments being made in venues to do that in hotels and train stations all over the world. it does, this resilient pack gets to work.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

It does, however, give presenters the option of choosing the best among the questions, following up with attendees after the session, or using the questions as a basis for new webinars or FAQs. A recent gaming conference turned multiple-choice training questions into a quiz show that attendees could participate in with their smartphones.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2019

Those companies now have access to webinars and training materials designed to overcome unconscious bias and will be part of the conversation about how to continue to make workplaces work for everyone. Cultivate Empathy.

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