Speaking 101: Leveraging Apps to Promote Individual Wellbeing

Speaking 101: Leveraging Apps to Promote Individual Wellbeing

cred is celebrating its second annual Wellness Week. From homemade smoothies, to virtual workouts, meditation classes, there are many possibilities to make sure you are investing in your individual wellbeing. Outside of the workplace, many of us are practicing wellness from the comfort of our own homes—and our own phones. We’ve put together a list of apps that have helped us exercise wellness in varying areas of our lives.

Speaking 101: How to Foster Networking at Your Virtual Event

Speaking 101: How to Foster Networking at Your Virtual Event

We know that content is key, but the meaningful connections that attendees walk away with are the ultimate key to your event’s success. Of attendees polled at Bizzabo’s (Almost) In-Person conference, 41% of attendees reported that networking is the in-person aspect most difficult to adapt to virtual events.

While we agree this is a significant challenge, impactful virtual networking is possible. With technologies evolving to cater to the virtual experience, we’re sharing five tools and strategies to foster networking at your next virtual event!

Speaking 101: How to Be Your Best Self During a Pandemic

Speaking 101: How to Be Your Best Self During a Pandemic

In her recent TED Connects discussion on “How to be your best self in times of crisis,” Harvard Medical School psychologist Susan David shares how to build resilience, courage and joy in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. We challenge you to practice these steps as you work remotely or tackle any new projects!

Speaking 101: Tools and Resources to Level Up Your Podcasts and Webinars

Speaking 101: Tools and Resources to Level Up Your Podcasts and Webinars

Over the last month, we’ve seen how the coronavirus has impacted the live events industry. Now, more speakers are focused on how they can use podcasts and webinars to build their brands virtually. In order to become an effective and great virtual speaker, you’re going to need to rely on some tech. We’ve listed 10 of our favorite hardware and software investments to level up your podcast and webinar speaking game.

Speaking 101: How to Create a Visually Engaging Presentation

Speaking 101: How to Create a Visually Engaging Presentation

Preparing for an event comes with a long checklist of tasks, and creating a visually engaging presentation can often be a stressful one. Catching your audiences’ eye is one obstacle, but keeping it is another. Having a visually engaging presentation is an easy way to help your audience absorb and retain the information you will be speaking about.

Speaking 101: How to Navigate the Waters of Working Remotely

Speaking 101: How to Navigate the Waters of Working Remotely

“I work remote” has quickly become a buzz phrase in our everyday vernacular. Whether our virtual lifestyles are due to social distancing in response to COVID-19 or simply the ever-changing nature of work, adjustments to our daily routines and workplaces have been unavoidable.

Working remotely has its challenges, so why not make things a little easier? We have compiled some of our favorite tips & tricks from experts on telecommuting to help us through this time of extreme uncertainty.

Speaking 101: How to Insert Humor and Personality Into Your Presentation

Speaking 101: How to Insert Humor and Personality Into Your Presentation

With the current climate and situation surrounding COVID-19, thought leaders are transitioning and adapting to virtual formats to continue sharing their ideas and solutions. There are many tools and tips to help adapt a presentation to online, but one hurdle remains: how do you keep a virtual audience engaged when you can’t read the “digital room”?

We put together a few helpful tips to ensure your presentations are engaging and prevent attendees from clicking “leave meeting.”

Speaking 101: Tips to Be an Effective Virtual Speaker

Speaking 101: Tips to Be an Effective Virtual Speaker

Switching up your speaking strategy can be a daunting task—especially when it calls for shifting away from being on stage, and toward being on screen. In this time of extreme global uncertainty, many conferences and events are either being canceled, postponed, or moving to virtual—from Facebook’s F8, to Google’s Cloud Next, to Austin’s famed SXSW (see our running list of events here). As the events industry looks to tackle the challenges wrought by COVID-19, the question stands: how can speakers stay ahead of the curve while also doing their part to flatten it?