I grew up in an age where my main form of digital entertainment was Sonic the Hedgehog on a Sega set and the Internet only became a real thing when I was a teenager though even then to start it up one had to go through the cacophony of the modem dial up.
Engaging attendees at an event and making the entire onsite experience a seamless one can be challenging for event organizers. Depending on the event venue, the size of your team and the other requirements to fulfill onsite, you will need to tweak your setup to accommodate the scenario present. What methods are there that can help you with this then?
Branding is an important aspect of any business. It is basically to create a name and an image of the business in consumers’ mind. When it comes to event organizing, event managers will find that branding plays a significant role to attract and retain attendees. Do you like an event with a forgettable name and that you can barely paint a picture of it in your mind? When I think back on past events I have attended, only a few of them gave me much to remember afterwards. Even fewer got me to think of them immediately when I want to find an event to attend or recommend one to my friends and colleagues.
We’ve looked at this topic before in a previous article, that you should absolutely read, about the trials and tribulations of networking for and at events. Therefore – joy! It’s time to revisit this theme once again because one article is never really enough is it? Here’s more and more and more ways to think about networking at your events.
Transformative, disruptive, revolutionary: as soon as a new technology hits the scene, there is a pressure within companies to get on board with it ASAP in order to be a part of the next big wave of change. From my experience, however, the relationship between technology and business – specifically the events industry – is a strange one, and deserves a more considered response.
“Money makes the world go round,” is the sort of capitalist saying that definitely applies to the blockbuster event you are putting together. Almost everything is going to cost you some of your dollars, but here in this article hopefully we’ll find a way to help you keep your sense.
Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I led at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. Sources for additional information on these techniques can be found in the notes at the end of the list.
We have all been there – you’ve done your job (excellently, I might add) for a good amount of time now and you’ve reached a level of competency that you yourself might not have envisaged a while back. There’s just one problem – you’re now experiencing burnout and you feel you need a break. In this article, let’s find out how, as event professionals, we can avoid that unfortunate familiar crushing sense of suffocation.
