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Top 21 Virtual Event Ideas for Your Next Online Event

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If you make it clear that winners will be announced on social media, you will not only get engagement during the event but will benefit from attendees checking your social channels regularly. . Polls and Q&As. of virtual event organizers use polls to increase interactions. Guest Speakers. Here is another virtual event idea.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media.

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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

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Channels such as social media can really help with this. Let that inform your decisions on what channel(s) to use to reach your audience. To learn more about how you can use email marketing to support year-round online fundraising, Ive uploaded my slides to Slideshare. Here''s what they said.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. Depending on the learning objectives, you could even skip the slides altogether, or adapt them for a pre-work activity. Medium: Up to 50 people. The connection between participants is less intimate. Large: Over 50 people.

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How to plan and run a good web conference

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As participants log in, have a slide or whiteboard that clearly shows the instructions for the audio. Use the technology available to vary activity with video or slides, interactive polling, application sharing or whiteboard. During the meeting. Take a minute to explain how to do this at the beginning of the meeting.

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Extension 2.0 in Ten Easy Steps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It really helped me think through the final instructional delivery, specifically how to manage popping between the powerpoint slide and sharing the desktop (web browser) and how to integrate participation. The slides and resources list are on the wiki. I also got a few leads to more blogs by Extension Professionals.

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If this isn't enough, she'll be giving away three free copies of Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel, required reading for trainers. If I'm doing a Webinar, I might use the poll feature and do my research in real time. All workshop participants will receive a discount coupon for the book. The Topics.