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From Planners to Producers: Tech Tips for Virtual Event Success

Smart Meetings

Here are five tech tips to make your virtual event engaging. It’s Not All About the Tech: Make Sure the Content Connects. Read More : Tech Tips From the Top: Breaking Barriers and Defining Hybrid. Have tech support ready to help in real time. How can your digital meeting beat a Netflix binge or mindless scrolling?

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Bizzabo Co-Founder Outlines How $140 Million in New Funding Will Help the Tech Firm Push Into Hybrid Events

EventMB

The company, founded in 2011, announced today that it has […]. The post Bizzabo Co-Founder Outlines How $140 Million in New Funding Will Help the Tech Firm Push Into Hybrid Events by Julius Solaris appeared first on [link]. Event platform Bizzabo has now raised almost $138 million to fuel its continued growth in this sector.

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Participatory voting at events: Part 2—Low-tech versus high-tech solutions

Conferences that Work

There is no shortage of high-tech systems that can poll an audience. Here are three reasons why high-tech ARSs may not be the best choice for participatory voting: ARSs necessitate expense and/or time to set up for a group. No-tech and low-tech approaches are low or no cost and require little or no preparation.

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Hub and spoke meetings

Conferences that Work

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. Producing Event Camp Twin Cities 2011. Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. But first….

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Hybrid Meetings Doomed to Failure? Not So Fast

Velvet Chainsaw

I’ll admit that in 2011, when the Virtual Edge Institute (now called the Digital Experience Institute) first co-located its conference with the Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders, the experience fell flat for me. There are high-tech (high-cost) and low-tech (low-cost) ways to amplify your content.

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Event technology how things haven’t really changed

Gallus Events

touchy tech. So to prove my point, these two lists came from a document I wrote back in 2011 when I came up with the idea for Tech Fest (slide 3 is our badges for Tech Fest 2012) which was to become Europe’s first dedicated event technology event. . Back in 2011 I listed these 14 groups of technology. event apps.

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Planning Starts for IMEX America 2023

Smart Meetings

I have been to every IMEX America since it began in 2011,” she recalled. Her role varied, however, including exhibitor, tech provider, speaker and tour guide. Even though she wasn’t looking for another job, she was already embedded in the culture. “I

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