Event Strategy & Design
How Is COVID-19 Transforming the Events Landscape?
Don Neal and Beth Surmont of marketing, strategy, and experience agency 360 Live Media talk about how to approach taking your face-to-face event digital during the COVID-19 crisis — and how that should make your next live event a big improvement over your last one.
A Life-Saving Pivot During the COVID-19 Crisis
As hospitals in some major U.S. cities near the brink of capacity, businesses across the event industry spectrum — including tent-rental companies like Alexander Party Rentals — are quickly realizing that they can step up to help.
Webinar: Digital Experience Institute Office Hours
In the DEI Office Hours series, we discuss digital event resources that are available, idea share and answer questions for taking your events digital in the wake of COVID-19.
COVID-19 Causes 5K Fundraiser to Go Virtual
An event designer has been fast-tracking efforts to create a virtual 5K fundraiser where participants run, walk, or jog independently and report their results online.
Plan B: The Institute of Internal Auditors’ Last-Minute Virtual Adjustments
In less than a week, The Institute of Internal Auditors navigated major disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic — a scrapped in-person event, speaker cancellations, and a closing host hotel — to nimbly pull off a one-day virtual program for its members.
Food Recovery Efforts Are Always on the Menu
Venues and food-service businesses don’t just think about food recovery efforts in a time of crisis. But here are standout examples of how some are helping others during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Webinar: Digital Experience Institute Office Hours
In the DEI Office Hours series, we discuss digital event resources that are available, idea share and answer questions for taking your events digital in the wake of COVID-19.
Using a Webinar Platform to Create a Virtual Conference
Explorance, a Montréal-based global software company, converted a three-day meeting to a virtual meeting in one week, using its webinar platform. Here’s how it was done.
8 Steps for Marketing Your Virtual Event
During the COVID-19 pandemic when gathering in person is not possible, many brands are pivoting to virtual events. To create an audience for your next virtual event, consider these best practices.
Where to Donate Unused Event Materials After Cancellations
Have items — like T-shirts and tote bags — that have been produced for an event that has been canceled due to COVID-19? The nonprofit Good360 can put them to good use.
Meeting Planners Quickly Switch to Digital Conference
The coronavirus outbreak caused the Ohio Safety Congress to cancel its annual event in March at the “last minute,” but the group rallied, delivering its first-ever online conference on schedule.
Turning Your F2F Meeting Into a Virtual Event
As the COVID-19 outbreak pushes more meetings into the virtual realm, a discussion on the Catalyst forum shows how one event organizer tackled the challenge.