What Is The Right Mix? Face-to-Face, Digital, Hybrid Events March 29, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Your meeting’s reach no longer stops at the conference room walls. Now technology makes it possible to reach people you never had access to before. The question is: How much should be live-only and how much shared with a remote audience? How do you create an environment that makes your remote attendees feel they are … [Read more…] Filed Under: Business Model, Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , conferences, digital events, engagement, event technology, hybrid events, live streaming, virtual events
Does Your Hybrid Event Have The It Factor? February 17, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Your heart races as your fingers type at lightning speed. You’re running behind schedule and want to make sure that you catch the opening general session online. Due to budget and schedule conflicts, you couldn’t attend that annual meeting. You didn’t want to miss some of the content so you registered as a virtual attendee. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , hybrid events, hybrid meetings, live streaming, virtual attendee, virtual event
Make Your Hybrid Event A Romper Room Experience February 14, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Are you old enough to remember the children’s television show Romper Room? It ran in the United States from 1954 to 1994. It also was televised in Australia, Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Hybrid Event Lessons From Romper Room Romper Room was aimed at children ages five and under. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , event technology, hybrid, hybrid event, live streaming, meeting best practices, virtual attendee, virtual event
Digital & Virtual Event Technologies Defined February 11, 2011 by Jeff Hurt No doubt you’ve started investigating the dizzying array of digital solutions for your event: content-capture, hybrid, live stream, on-demand, Skype, videoconferencing, virtual, webinar, 2D, 3D. It can be perplexing. Especially when you are used to planning face-to-face events. Often people confuse terms and technologies. We have yet to adopt a standardized vocabulary for this emerging … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Technology Tagged With: , event technology, hybrid, hybrid event, live streaming, meeting best practices, virtual attendee, virtual event
Virtual Events Coming Out Party 2010 [Infographic] December 10, 2010 by Jeff Hurt 2010 was the coming out party for Virtual Events. What was once viewed upon skeptically by meeting planners, trade show organizers, event marketers, and marketers is quickly becoming an integral part of one’s event and marketing strategies. The Virtual Edge Institute compiled 2010 surveys and created this Infographic as a resource for those considering going … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Technology Tagged With: , event technology, live streaming, virtual attendee, virtual event
Toto, I Don’t Think We Are In The Meeting Venue Anymore September 13, 2010 by Jeff Hurt 7 Tips For Successful Live Streaming Events This article was written (well, ghostwritten by me in collaboration with Dave Lutz) for Dave’s People & Processes column in PCMA’s September edition of Convene. Recently we looked at the logistics needed for a successful hybrid event. That live streaming cheat sheet addressed the five types of hybrid events, … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , hybrid events, hybrid meetings, live streaming, virtual attendee, virtual event, virtual experiences
Go Hybrid: A Live Streaming Cheat Sheet July 19, 2010 by Dave Lutz This article was written (well, ghostwritten by me in collaboration with Dave Lutz) for Dave’s People & Processes column in PCMA’s June edition of Convene. You’ve convinced your team that providing a hybrid event is good for your organization, your customers and your stakeholders. You’ve alleviated any fears about the virtual experience cannibalizing your face-to-face … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Technology, Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , backchannel, event technology, hybrid events, hybrid meetings, live streaming, live streaming an event, social media for events, Twitter for events
Let Your Content Run Wild And Free To Attract New Members And Retain Current Ones June 14, 2010 by Dave Lutz With the explosion of social media comes the expectation that content should be free. How do you embrace that as a way to create greater demand for your face-to-face events — and attract new members? This past summer we’ve experienced a confluence of events with significant implications for the future of the meetings, events and … [Read more…] Filed Under: Attendance Marketing Tagged With: , association, conferences, Free content, live streaming, Social Media
Baseball, Children’s Counting Rhymes And Virtual Events February 25, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Eeny, meeny, miny, moe Face-To-Face or Virtual Go My mother told me To pick the very best one And you are [not] it. Often when meeting professionals consider whether to offer a face-to-face or virtual event, they feel as if the choice is best made by using a children’s counting rhyme. You know… Pizza, pizza, … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Technology, Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , 2D, 3D, conferences, delivery, event technology, face-to-face event, hybrid event, live streaming, meeting planner, virtual attendee, virtual event
