Event 101: Rethinking Webinars
The event industry has undergone a major transformation over the past few years with the addition of completely virtual events, conferences, and webinars. These events have come a long way since 2019, but still have room for improvement. Companies around the world are constantly trying new tactics to keep attendees engaged and rethink what a webinar should look like. Among these strategies, we’ve honed in on four crucial elements.
Speaking 101: How to Make Virtual Sessions More Interactive
Speaking at online events is no easy feat. You must ensure your tech is fully functioning, your Wi-Fi is running at lightning speed, in-home distractions are at a minimum, and most importantly, that your session leaves attendees feeling engaged and inspired. Losing the attention of your audience is the last thing you want, so we’ve included five key strategies for keeping your audience engaged.
Event 101: How to Jazz Up Virtual Session Breaks
Transition breaks: those five, ten, or 15-minute windows between sessions that would normally be reserved for walking from room to room in the event venue. In the virtual world, however, these breaks are now open space to fill for attendees tuning in from home. In the past year and a half, we’ve seen a lot of ways to fill these windows in your event agenda. Keep reading for a few of our favorite ways to jazz up session breaks.
Speaking 101: How to Network at Virtual Events
Virtual events offer different perks than in-person events, including new ways to meet other speakers or attendees—several virtual event platforms have networking features to help attendees stay connected via one-on-one meetings, small group discussions, active discussions in the chat, and more. Networking during virtual events is quite different from mingling IRL, and our tips can help you make the most out of those screen-to-screen meetings.
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Event Data
Social Engagement & Event Activation Ideas: craft & cred Q&A
With the event industry flipped upside down these past 18 months, there’s a tremendous opportunity to create new best practices, ideas, and innovation. The world just learned to navigate fully virtual events, but now it must tackle a new challenge: invent engagement for hybrid events and recreate excitement for in-person ones.
So what’s new here? We sat down with Gina Michnowicz, CEO & Executive Creative Director of The Craftsman, our agency partner, to get her take on how we can maximize engagement and social strategy when you’re planning your next event. Check out what we learned:
Event 101: Revisiting the Best Virtual Event Platforms: How to Find What’s Right for You
Back in the naive days of April 2020, when we weren’t exactly sure where COVID would take the event world, we dissected our top virtual platform picks, where we explored ON24, Zoom Webinar, Airmeet, and AnyMeeting.
You might ask “But that was so long ago, cred! Aren’t there so many new players in the game and other platforms we should be considering?” You’d be right! Since a myriad of new platforms have come on the scene, we update you, highlighting their big draws.