Digital Events

Best practices and case studies for pulling off exceptional virtual and hybrid meetings.

5 Questions You Need to Answer to Make Your Digital Event Accessible

For those with disabilities, accessibility during a digital event is just as much of a concern as accessibility at an in-person event. Here are considerations every event professional should keep in mind to ensure their digital event is inclusive and accessible.

BY Casey Gale September 23, 2020

Top Takeaways From the Primetime Emmy Awards — a Normal, and New Normal, Production

With a host at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and nominees livestreaming from around the world, the 72nd Primetime Emmys showed how the right production footwork can seamlessly blend a live and digital event to engage audiences during COVID-19.

BY Casey Gale September 21, 2020

3 Questions to Guide Your Digital Event Design

Defining your event’s purpose and the needs of participants always has been fundamental to good event design. Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society asked itself three questions to make sure its digital conference took those two critical considerations into account.

BY Barbara Palmer September 16, 2020

Key Decisions the National Speakers Association Took for a Successful Virtual ‘Experience’

‘Never waste a good crisis’ was the National Speakers Association leaders’ mantra, as they sought to remake an annual national event into a virtual experience — not a ‘conference” or ‘hybrid’ — and introducing initiatives that will last into the future.

BY Michelle Russell September 11, 2020

Choose Your Online Event Platform Using This Lens

It pays to dedicate more time to strategy and less to demos.

BY Tyler Day September 10, 2020

5 Reasons Why and 5 Ways to Bring Meditation Into Your Virtual Event

Thinking of adding an optional mindfulness session to your online event program? Here’s a handful of things to keep in mind.

BY Shelley Brown September 9, 2020

All-Virtual or Hybrid? How One Conference Planned for Both Scenarios

While deciding whether an on-site program component was feasible for the Hotel Data Conference or if it would have to be held entirely online, organizers took a proactive strategy that would work in either case.

BY Casey Gale September 4, 2020

Planning for Virtual Participation and Revenues

Are there any yardsticks yet for attendance, exhibitors, and the number of sessions for virtual vs. in-person event formats? Meeting professionals discussed the topic in a recent Catalyst community thread.

BY Convene Editors September 4, 2020

Scientific Meetings Are Going Virtual and Reaching the World

When scientific meetings go online, their audiences, as well as their potential for knowledge-sharing, grow exponentially.

BY Barbara Palmer Casey Gale September 4, 2020

3 Takeaways from the Republican National Convention

For their national nominating convention, the Republicans used elements of both in-person and virtual events with mixed results.

BY Barbara Palmer August 31, 2020

Most Event Professionals Satisfied With Digital Meeting Technology — But See Room For Improvement

Many digital events rely on two or more platforms to get the job done — planners responding to the latest Recovery Dashboard survey say they are looking for more seamless solutions.

BY Barbara Palmer August 31, 2020

Two Ways MTV’s Video Music Awards Embraced the Moment — And One Way It Didn’t

The MTV Video Music Awards was one of the first major award shows to be held since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Here’s how MTV managed to safely pull off a socially distanced event.

BY Casey Gale August 31, 2020

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