Digital Events
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.
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.
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.
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.
Choose Your Online Event Platform Using This Lens
It pays to dedicate more time to strategy and less to demos.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.