PCMA’s First Omnichannel Convening Leaders: The Great, the Good and the Not So… January 21, 2021 by Lisa Block I was excited to attend PCMA’s Omnichannel Convening Leaders event last week. Having attended more than 20 of PCMA’s Annual Meetings over the years (both in person and virtually), I expected high energy, experimental delivery and great content. I wasn’t expecting to connect with my friends or to feel the same high I get from … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Networking, Experience Design, Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , association insights, Convening Leaders, hybrid, omnichannel, PCMA, PCMA's Convening Leaders, virtual
[Webinar] Rethink, Restart, Refresh Your Panels: Advice for 2021 January 11, 2021 by Betsy Bair Ring in the New Year with advice from two renowned experts on speaker coaching and panel improvement, Kristin Arnold and Sarah Michel. The shift to virtual events has magnified the need to add spice and spunk to your conference’s panel discussions so that you leave the audience begging for more. You’ll get more than … [Read more…] Filed Under: Ramblings Tagged With: , hybrid, panel formats, panels, speaker training, speakers, speaking coaching, virtual
Drag Is A Four Letter Word To Avoid In Digital Presentations January 17, 2012 by Jeff Hurt Your digital presentation must keep moving or it will be abandoned! As a digital presenter, you can’t afford to get bogged down for any reason. If you do, you will lose attendees. Faster, Upbeat Pace The pace of your Webinar, teleseminar or virtual presentation must be faster than your traditional face-to-face presentation. No, that doesn’t … [Read more…] Filed Under: Hybrid & Virtual, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , digital presentations, presentation best practices, presentation strategies, virtual, virtual attendee, virtual meetings, webinars
Five Traits Of Outstanding Online Presentations June 22, 2011 by Jeff Hurt The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we are ready for it. ~ Arnold Glasgow The number of poor online presentations is rapidly growing. The number of poor virtual presenters is expanding even faster. Poorly designed webinars, boring online conferences, ineffective hybrid events and emotionless virtual meetings litter our digital landscape … [Read more…] Filed Under: Hybrid & Virtual, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , digital presentations, hybrid events, virtual, virtual experiences, webinars
Virtual Trade Show Business Plans December 15, 2010 by Dave Lutz Tradeshow organizers and exhibitors are leveraging virtual technologies for their benefit. Virtual events are helping them reduce costs, increase lead generation, improve ROI for the exhibitor and attract future buyers. At IAEE’s 2010 Expo! Expo! Nicole Buraglio and I presented a sesson on Virtual Trade Show Business Plans. We explored several business and go-to-market strategies for leveraging … [Read more…] Filed Under: Business Model, Sponsorship & Exhibits Tagged With: , hybrid, tradeshow, tradeshows, virtual, virtual meeting, virtual tradeshow
