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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

I can hide a yawn by turning off my camera, but that is the very thing I want to avoid. After two years of teaching online in a variety of formats and structures, one thing that I’ve realized is that when the camera is off, people may be long gone—or at least disengaged. . So, how does that translate to the Zoom Room? Is this you? .

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30 Virtual and Hybrid Event Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

At first glance, it may seem impossible to recreate some of these types of events in a virtual format, but with a little creativity and the right fundraising event tools, you might be surprised at the high-quality experiences you can offer for your donors virtually. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event. 3) Cooking classes.

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6 Best Event Marketing Strategies to Boost Your Hybrid Event Experiences

AccelEvents

With the rise in virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more businesses are seeing that virtual platforms can produce high-quality events. With an intuitive virtual event platform , it doesn’t take much to add the extra virtual element to an already live event. Better digitization of virtual attendee data.

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6 Best Event Marketing Strategies to Boost Your Hybrid Event Experiences

AccelEvents

With the rise in virtual events, more businesses are seeing that virtual platforms can produce high-quality events. With an intuitive virtual event platform , it doesn’t take much to add the extra virtual element to an already live event. We know that attending a virtual event isn’t always the most fun.

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. He was wrong. Too Much Freedom?

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. He was wrong. Too Much Freedom?

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

One person we spoke with described the sudden adjustments at her food bank: We had never used a platform virtually before. We held 33 virtual focus groups (via Zoom) with 181 CVAs in the United States and Canada. CVAs described how transitioning to virtual and remote service removed the barriers of distance and lack of transportation.