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

The MatrixFiles

Heinan Landa (CEO of Optimal Networks ) asked me last week: As we’re slowly returning to the office and in-person meetings, what lessons from 15 months of virtual meetings should endure? Over the past year, I’ve had many clients bemoan virtual, but I’ve also had many clients express joy over the benefits of virtual.

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Top 21 Virtual Event Ideas for Your Next Online Event

AccelEvents

However, no matter the theme of your virtual event, you need to develop interesting virtual event ideas so that your attendees are engaged, excited, and continue to think about your event and brand long after the event is done! Here are 21 virtual event ideas to get you started. . Here is another virtual event idea.

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4 steps to successful virtual events for your association

Nimble AMS

We hear a lot these days about virtual events. As you move in-person events online – or create all-new virtual events – there are a few things you can do to ensure success. As you move in-person events online – or create all-new virtual events – there are a few things you can do to ensure success. Build a plan.

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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

Well, two years on, I can safely say that our virtual training classes are here to stay. Even our premier training— Proposal Writing Boot Camp —is now fully virtual, with a self-paced component and two hours of face-to-face engagement for three weeks. Launch a poll, ask for feedback, switch speakers, turn off the slides.

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Hosting a Virtual Conference: Lessons Learned for 2021

Forj

In 2020, associations everywhere were faced with a tough decision: pivot to virtual events or cancel their much-anticipated conferences outright. Many organizations had just a few weeks— months if they were lucky— to craft a virtual event to varying degrees of success. 6 Virtual Conferences Lessons Learned for 2021.

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22 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Schools Alumni on Facebook

NetWits

The other 12 are in the slides - Social Media for Schools: 22+ Ways to Stay Connected with Your Alumni on Facebook - located at the very bottom of this post. Virtual campus tour. Make sure to check out the slides below for a bunch more. Polls: Ask poll questions using the poll features. Run a competition.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Full group activity: Provide feedback and ideas to a shared virtual chat space both before, during, and after live webinar. This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. Medium: Up to 50 people. The connection between participants is less intimate.