Why Digital Events Are in ‘an Awkward Phase’
Technology may connect us physically, but much remains to be learned about its ability to create emotional connections.
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How CVBs Are Helping Destinations Safely Reopen
As destinations have started to lift stay-at-home orders and businesses are reopening their doors, CVBs are helping to ensure their communities stay safe as they ready to welcome visitors once again.
Lack of Standardization at Event Venues in the Time of COVID: A Good Thing?
As the events industry eagerly looks forward to the possibility of bringing small groups together face to face, initiatives around safety and hygiene at event venues are proliferating. And perhaps the lack of uniformity is okay, as long as the standards are consistently high.
What to Charge Exhibitors for Digital Events?
Recommendations from the PCMA Catalyst community include what some organizers have found to be the sweet spot for exhibitor pricing, how to add year-round value to sponsors, and ways to get attendees to engage with exhibitors online.
When Being Agile Means Saving Lives — and Jobs
The Trade Show Group quickly shifted from creating trade-show booths to manufacturing safety equipment for health-care workers during the pandemic.
What We’ve Learned About the Value of Digital Events
Entrepreneur Xiaoyin Qu, the co-founder of the event-tech startup Run the World, shares how organizers are getting savvier about ways to provide engagement, revenue, and connection online.
Virtual Pride Events Will Focus on Black Lives Matter
Organizers of Pride virtual events this month say the social unrest and protests over the deaths of George Floyd and other Black people by the police will be an important part of their message and programs.
How One Virtual Fundraising Event Made Socializing a Priority
Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas used Zoom breakout rooms to replicate the experience of sharing a table with others at a gala — and the virtual event ended up exceeding an ambitious fundraising goal.
8 Ways to Make Your Conference More Racially Diverse
There has been a lot of talk about why all-male panels are a problem, Ruchika Tulshyan, the founder and CEO of Candour, a diversity consulting company, wrote last fall. “But less attention has been paid to how too many events also lack racial diversity.”
Masks Don’t Stop Us From Reading Emotions
New research on emotional expression shows that we can tell that people are smiling at us, even when their noses and mouths are covered.
Digital Events Press Pause During Period of Unrest
Cisco, Sony, and Electronic Arts are some of the companies that have decided to put digital conferences and product launches on hold to show support for the movement to fight racism.
What This Online Dance Party Can Tell Us About Sponsors
With social distancing making dancing next to thousands of strangers impossible, here’s how one event company recreated the dance-party experience online — and put their sponsor in the center of the action.