Building a Virtual Event Employee Code of Conduct
“Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss.” – The Who Presenting a digital event is still relatively new territory for many companies, especially larger organizations that have more recently embraced digital events as a cost-cutting measure to save on travel. Just as there are…
Moving Mobile to the Center of the Virtual Event Experience
266,000 text messages were sent in the U.S. in the time that it took you to read this headline Over the last decade, mobile devices have become so integrated into our daily routines that it is difficult for most of us to imagine living without…
What Makes a Great Virtual Event Manager?
Event manager = 1/3 mad scientist, 1/3 psychologist, 1/3 logistics expert. Since digital events share many of the attributes of physical events, it makes sense to start by discussing some of the attributes of event managers in general. In many ways, events are like chemistry experiments – place a few thousand people in…
Social Distancing: How to Still Connect with Customers
While everyone is grappling with the unknown and unexpected, small-to-medium-size businesses concerned not only with the health of themselves and their families, but also the health off their businesses. The tech industry alone has lost over $1 billion due to cancellations and shutdowns in this worldwide time…
How to Make Your Next Virtual Event Fascinating
Virtual smiles and Hershey’s kisses We’ve all been to events where part of the experience includes an “Expo”, where sponsors and vendors set up 8 x 10 ‘booths’ to promote their products and engage potential clients in a conversation. They buy the space and spend…
Are Virtual Events Too Predictable? 3 Reasons to Embrace Randomness, Unpredictability, & the Unexpected
virtualConsistency is the best foundation for the unexpected Over the last several years, virtual event companies have created reliable frameworks and systems to help their clients drive more leads and maximize event ROI. Unlike virtual worlds, such as Second Life, virtual event platform providers aimed…
Virtual and Face to Face Events – Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Virtual event planners + face to face event organizers = best friends forever? Since virtual events first hit the market, there has been a certain amount of tension between face to face event organizers and virtual event planners. In my previous article, “Ten Things I…
Differences between Webinars, Online Meetings and Virtual Events
Many people often confuse “webinars” and “online meetings” with “virtual events.” While each of these other online conferencing tools have their benefits, they are not the same as virtual events. Learn more about the differences between these different types of online meeting spaces – and…
How to Transform Your Marketing with Virtual Events
We are witnessing a unique moment in the history of marketing: more than ever, the key audiences that companies are trying to reach are available in plain sight, offering a free, public 24-hour-a-day, 7-days-a-week “focus group” of customer feedback and customer inquiries. Social media like…
6 Virtual Event Disasters…and How to Avoid Them
“We are the authors of our own disasters” – Latin Proverb. Virtual events are an ideal way to cost-effectively connect and share information with your internal teams, customers and partners. But although the technology now exists to bring together people from wide-ranging geographic locations and…