My mother used to tell us that “things are going to be different” as we drove home from our annual summer beach vacation. It was her way of getting the family focused on the upcoming routine and discipline of school and work. I remember feeling that her words were both a warning and a promise of adventures yet to come. That lesson is easily applied to the challenges that lie ahead for associations considering alternatives and augmentation of their future live events. While live events are … [Read more...]
Steps You Should Be Taking Now for Your Fall Conference
This is the fourth in a series of blogs posts, written collaboratively by our team, which uncover lessons learned in advising dozens of our clients on their events in the time of COVID-19. Although each situation has its own unique issues, we hope you find nuggets to help you with your disruption response and planning. Over the past couple weeks, conversations with our clients have shifted from crisis decision-making for conferences occurring in the near-term (reactive) to scenario planning … [Read more...]
[Video] 5 Tips to Guarantee Engagement at Your Virtual Event
To design a virtual event with the participants in mind, you need to create an engaging, interactive experience that provides relevant content and promotes knowledge sharing and networking value—often the missing link in our new virtual reality. In this short video, we give you five tips to ensure that you’ll achieve amazing and impactful engagement with your next digital event. … [Read more...]
Your Two Cents on Virtual Events
Improving digital learning and amplifying conference content to a larger audience is a high priority for most conference organizers. With the advent of DIY solutions, business models that include sponsorship and the ability to reach a global audience, we’re seeing an increased focus on expanding the impact of virtual events. Tagoras, an adviser to associations and businesses that offer adult lifelong learning, continuing education and professional development, freely shares quite a bit of … [Read more...]
Helping Your Remote Virtual Attendees Succeed As Participants
Our time is valuable. Many of us see our time as money, a resource that we don't want to waste. Asking people to commit 30-, 45- or even 60-minutes of their time to attend your Webinar is asking a lot. It's critical that your digital event provide tremendous value and ROI or you'll lose your attendees' trust. Establish Expectations And Responsibilities As digital event presenter, it's your responsibility to make sure that everyone that participates succeeds. You need to provide enough … [Read more...]
Six TV News Techniques To Use With Your Digital Events
The art of delivering presentations to remote audiences is anything but new. Radio and television have been doing it for decades. Broadcast Professionals Share The Same Challenges Radio and TV personalities face many of the same challenges that digital event organizers and presenters face. They present to remote, invisible and silent audiences. They can't see or hear their audience's reactions. They can't look them in the eye or watch their facial expressions. They can't see their body … [Read more...]
Improving Member Loyalty Via Digital Events
Lower costs of conducting digital and hybrid events is making it easier for competitors to reach your market and their wallets. Here is the PPT from the presentation that Dave Lutz and I did for ASAE11 on improving member loyalty. Improving Member Loyalty Via Digital Events View more presentations from Jeff Hurt. What are your experiences, good or bad, with digital events? What other questions or strategies would you add to the six we have identified in these slides? … [Read more...]
Speaker Tips When Using A Live Stream, Backchannel And Face To Face Experience
In the past two weeks, I've done three live streamed presentations. It's more work than a traditional presentation. With a few tweaks to my traditional face to face presentation, everyone benefits. The rewards of the extra work are worth it! Presenting To Three Audiences At Once The challenge when presenting for a hybrid event is juggling three audiences. The face to face audience in the room. The remote audience following the live stream online, sometimes within a hybrid or virtual … [Read more...]
