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What Have We Learned About Creating Engaging Meetings from Virtual Conferences?

The MatrixFiles

BeSpeake clients have: Paid closer attention to the content and slides. Worked with their speakers to add interactive elements, from polls to contests. Polls and contests to add sparkle to a session or break. One client is now known for a great Jeopardy game where the questions are all about their accreditation program!

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Top 21 Virtual Event Ideas for Your Next Online Event

AccelEvents

Live Games. Even if you don’t, a virtual team or individual game is an excellent way of connecting to others and getting excited. Games with incentives or prizes can allow your audience members to display their talents and vote for those who perform the game the best! Polls and Q&As. In fact, 81.8%

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

Covid-19 has been a game changer for all of us: it challenged my program at the Smithsonian in ways large and small. I make a point of varying the format , sometimes using polls or breakout rooms for smaller group discussion and brainstorming. Interestingly, a follow up poll gave the event relatively low marks.

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July Is Web Conferencing Month

Tech Soup

Web conferencing is a technology that can be a game changer for an organization. With the ability to present slides, share links and desktops, conduct polls, and create and store meeting notes, virtual meetings can be more productive than meetings in person. Attendee polling and statistics. Whiteboards, breakout rooms.

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My First Intergenerational Social Media: Learning from Gen Z's and Value of Different Points of View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. I had intended to do the game simulation, but it was too nonprofit centric. Note to self: Need to have a back-up small group exercise that I could do when the game won't work). I also always show a slide about the age demographics of email users.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. . These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out.

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A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People in Philadelphia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In between sections, I asked people to do a standing poll. Next, I added screen captures of their social media presence or tactic in the slide show. The afternoon was spent playing the social media game. I do the interactive lecture technique - and invite other voices into the mix as much as possible and encourage questions.