Category: Audience Response News

When we plan virtual or live events, we need to figure out how attendees will engage with the content, sponsors, and each other. But hybrid events pose a unique challenge.

We now must also figure out how we’ll get these audiences to engage with one another.

Ask yourself these questions:

• What experiences, if any, should be online-only? In-person only?
• Which virtual and face-to-face activities can I make one cohesive experience?
• What will interaction between digital and live audiences look like?

Read more at: https://www.cadmiumcd.com/blog/hybrid-events-engagement/

What’s that one thing in common with NBA 2020, Tomorrow Land 2020, VMA 2020? These, as you may have rightly guessed met the new norm of the 2020 event world standards, they are all Hybrid events.

If you aren’t a big fan of Hybrid events and would do anything to go back to the ‘Live-Show’ days, you know you are not alone. Yet, the fact is that 100% of all-live events aren’t coming back – as soon as we’d like.

Read more at: https://www.evia.events/evia-blogs/2020/10/7/6-ways-to-strategize-your-hybrid-event

Continuing the series on using the survey magnet for virtual events, this post will focus on hybrid events which utilize a mixture of live and on-demand components.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many larger in-person events were cancelled and switched to online events. A previous post covered how to set-up your evaluation portal for live digital/online events.

Looking into the future, as some restrictions are being lifted many event organizers are planning for smaller, more regional “in-person” meetings but provide a really robust online offering for the wider audience.

Read more at: https://www.cadmiumcd.com/blog/steps-to-using-cadmiumcds-survey-magnet-for-hybrid-events/

Virtual events quick wins are opportunities for improvement that have low operation complexity. Thus, the execution can be done in the short term, there’s a considerable potential for benefit.

We’ve been deepening the concept through the last three months and, after organizing online conferences for 2000+ people, we can now evaluate our best results and share what have been our best results.

Read more at: http://blog.inevent.com/en/tech-and-trends/top-three-virtual-events-quick-wins-we-learned-in-2020.html

On July 30th, we hosted the virtual event Virtual events trends: increasing audience engagement. Thus, we invited three experts in different areas to present solutions. So they could talk on how to keep an audience engaged throughout an online event.

Melanie Woodward, from Event Planning Blueprint; Vanessa Holmes, from noonah; and William Warren, of The Sketch Effect. They showed how they go about exploring new features to keep people engaged throughout their virtual events.

Read more at: http://blog.inevent.com/en/tech-and-trends/increasing-virtual-events-engagement-video-sketch.html

Trying to make virtual events more interactive is undeniably one of the main strategies brands are using to increase their global reach.

For years, videoconferencing was the only option when meeting online. However, with macro changes, like the pandemic, the need of more robust and complete solutions emerged.

Read more at: http://blog.inevent.com/en/tech-and-trends/make-virtual-events-more-interactive-5-practical-tactics.html

As event planners continue to make the shift to virtual and hybrid events, maintaining a high level of attendee engagement has become an even more pressing topic. We asked eight event professionals from all over the map what are some of the most effective and creative initiatives they’ve seen or implemented themselves to ramp up attendee engagement.

Read more at: https://www.eventmobi.com/blog/what-are-some-of-the-most-effective-and-creative-ways-youve-seen-or-implemented-yourself-to-ramp-up-attendee-engagement-in-virtual-hybrid-events/