Event Staging
4 Ways to Engage Attendees in Breakouts
If you’re looking for ways to spice up your breakout sessions by increasing engagement, and interactivity between attendees and course leaders, consider utilizing these technologies.
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4 Things to Think About Before Selecting Your Event Venue
When searching for a new venue for your next meeting or event, it’s important to consider these 4 areas when making your decision:
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Increasing Meeting Attendance With Hybrid Technology
Hybrid meetings offer an innovative way to engage your audience. Here is a compilation of comments from meeting professionals regarding the advantages of blending live meetings with virtual interaction from attendees who cannot attend the meeting in-person.
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Tim Cook sees a bigger future for AR than VR
Apple's CEO tells ABC News that augmented reality allows people to be more "present" than virtual reality.
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11 Tips for Effective Business Networking
Do you want to make your business networking more effective?
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3 Quick Ways To Get Meetings On Your Calendar
It had been a couple weeks now I was trying to get four friends together to work on a project. One person said “How about Wednesday?” Two people responded, “Yes, that’s good for me”. Then the fourth responded, “No I can’t do that. How about Thursday?” That continued for a while until we agreed on a time. Then it started all over again when we had to agree on a location.
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Lessons from Pokemon: Should We Do Something Just Because We Can?
The newest app to cause a craze this summer is Pokemon Go, released in July. Pokemon Go is a game that brings Pokemon characters to life on the screen, placing them into your view of the world on your screen. How does it place on-screen characters into the world as you see it? The answer is Augmented Reality.
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Internet Of Things and Web 3.0: How They Will Affect Your Meeting
The Internet Of Things (IoT), simply put, is multiple devices connected to each other, similar to ones you may be currently using like, Tile and TrackR. For meetings and events, what does this mean for you? How about tracking your fellow attendees at a large conference so you can meet up with them at a particular booth or breakout session, or better yet, track your attendees' every move? Wouldn’t you love to know where they are spending most of their time? Imagine the ability to provide your attendees with a totally immersed experience.
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Pay to Play: What Planners Need to Know About Copyright Law
Did you know that playing music under copyright at an event can get you, your company or a venue into big trouble?!
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Future Technologies for Events
Ground-breaking innovations are around the corner: robot bartenders that receive orders via apps, 3-D printing models, self-driving cars that drop off attendees and park themselves, augmented reality for meetings, and combining video projection mapping with audio. All of these technologies are either here right now, will be available to planners soon, or are on the drawing board of meetings industry visionaries.
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