Like everything in 2020, the swag bag is adapting to the online world and event organizers are getting more creative than ever. Whether you have an event coming up or are looking for ways to boost internal team engagement, here are some of cred’s favorite ways to curate the new virtual event swag bag.
While we’ve been happily swamped with virtual conferences, managing speaking opportunities, and all else events-related, the people of cred have fortunately still found time to cross a few books off our reading lists.
We’d like to share some of our top reads with you! Whether you’re looking to focus on personal development, give your brain a break from the world, or find something interesting to chat about during your next Zoom happy hour, we’ve got you covered.
In the now-standard in-person to virtual event pivot, SaaStr Annual at Home packed all the founder and VC-led content and networking that attendees have come to know and love from SaaStr into three full days of live, virtual content.
With 70+ sessions, the key takeaways were flying out of our speakers faster than we could transcribe them. Here are some of our favorites, but make sure to join the 300,000+ other viewers who have already committed to learn from the best in SaaS and catch up on all the incredible Annual sessions on SaaStr’s Twitter feed.
When the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the events industry in March, event pros quickly pivoted to virtual. The shift was so drastic that business and professional online events increased 1,100% in April compared to April 2019.
Now that we’re half a year into experiencing events from home, we’re starting to notice some trends as virtual conferences become the new norm. Here are 10 virtual conference trends we’re seeing this year.
Welcome to the sixth month of the virtual “new normal!” It almost seems as though years have passed since rumblings of a pandemic were circulating in early March, threatening to bring the events industry to a screeching halt. Optimism was shared through outlooks of “it will go back to normal next month,” or “don’t worry, they won’t cancel the event”—and now, these words cause us to shake our heads at the blissful ignorance our industry was once guilty of presenting.
Luckily, we’ve seen a quick pivot to virtual, and as we plan more and more virtual events, we’re seeing benefits that we never would have anticipated.
Since May, the entire world has focused on how we, as a society, can listen and elevate the voices of minorities—specifically those in the Black and Brown community. One of the ways that we're doing that here at cred is by adding more Black/POC voices to the agendas of events that we plan and our speaker roster.
The other way we're doing this is in our newest credTen. Here are the top ten events that focus on diversity and elevating minority voices.
It is important to note wellness means many things to different people. From physical, to emotional, to spiritual health, the pathway to self-care and wellbeing can take on many forms in order to successfully bring balance and alignment into our daily lives.
We’ve compiled a list of experts taking purposeful steps forward in conversations around collective health and wellbeing—bringing meaningful resources to weather the uncertainty we are living in and the days to come.
This post was originally posted on the GOODFest blog as a contributed article by cred.
