Mobile Event App- 10 Reasons Your Attendees Are Not Using It

Mobile Event App- 10 Reasons Your Attendees Are Not Using It

You made it. The team you had appointed to design your organization’s very own mobile event app has just handed it over to you. Officially. This is an incredible and worthy milestone for event planners who are just starting out and carving a mark for their organization.

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How to Manage Parallel Conference Sessions

How to Manage Parallel Conference Sessions

The multi-session conference format is now standard practice across professional industries, academic institutions and global summits alike. But its adoption is not without reason. The benefits of hosting said parallel conference sessions are plenty. Parallel programming lets organizers cater to the expectations of audience segments that come from different walks of life.

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Hosting Webinars in Universities- Effective Strategies

Hosting Webinars in Universities- Effective Strategies

Most of us have sat through at least one university webinar that felt like an endurance test. You’ve seen the speaker’s audio cutting in and out. The moderator fumbling with the mute button. And someone in the background has a pressure cooker going off. And the session, which was scheduled for an hour, is somehow still going at the two-hour mark. Needless to say, hosting webinars in universities can get chaotic too quickly.
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Major Differences Between a Summit and a Conference

Major Differences Between a Summit and a Conference

Summit and conference are two words that are often used interchangeably. While the two share more similarities than differences, there are a few things that draw a clear distinction between them. In terms of the size of the event, the topic of focus and even the number of days, a summit and conference have unique strings attached to each of them.

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10 Ways CRM Helps in Effective Management of Events

10 Ways CRM Helps in Effective Management of Events

A great and damaging misconception about Customer Relationship Management (CRM), is that many believe that this is something that concerns conventional businesses. The commercial ones. The ones that you purchase from on a regular basis. Hardly does anyone think of customer relationship management when it comes to event management. 

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Challenges in Post-Event Engagement in Academia

Challenges in Post-Event Engagement in Academia

Today, a non-negotiable aspect of organizing an academic event is associated with what you do post-event. Yes, you read that right. Post-event. If you’ve signed up to be an event planner in this day and age, well, we’d like to warn you that there are clear boundaries. And perhaps no finish lines. It is a race that continues well after your event officially draws its curtains.
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6 Registration Metrics Event Organizers Must Track

6 Registration Metrics Event Organizers Must Track

Event registration is a live data feed. Statista notes that about 328.77 million terabytes of data are generated daily. Every spike, drop-off and demographic detail in your registration flow is telling you something about how your event is landing with your audience. If you are a proactive organizer, you should be paying very close attention to this data. If not, you are seriously missing out.

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Informal vs Structured Networking in Academic Events

Informal vs. Structured Networking in Academic Events

Everyone who has attended an academic conference has felt the weight of networking. You sit through two days of presentations, collect a dozen business cards, eat the complimentary pastries and leave feeling oddly disconnected. You spoke to people, yes. But did you actually network with them? Probably not.

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5 Ways to Increase Event ROI- How Event Tools Help with the Process

5 Ways Event Management Software Increases Your Event ROI

Technavio has projected the valuation of the global event management industry to be well over $1.07 trillion. And almost all forecasts are in agreement that the event space is only set to skyrocket all the more, in terms of fiscal valuation, manpower and employment. What this means for the individual event planner or their event ROI is that this field is a high-stakes affair.

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Abstract Submission Guide: How to Submit Abstracts for Conferences

How to Submit Abstracts in Conferences- A Detailed Guide

Conducting research is among the single most valuable endeavors in the scientific community and academia. It is via research, sometimes spanning over decades, that meaningful inventions have been accomplished for humankind. Although beginner researchers may believe that their work is only meager in the large scale of academia, documenting your work can open up opportunities bigger than you may have imagined. And a key part of successfully putting your research out in the world is submitting your abstract.

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9 Questions to Ask Your Event’s Technology Vendor

9 Questions to Ask Your Event’s Technology Vendor 

Signing a contract with the wrong technology vendor can cost you more than money. It can cost you your event itself.

For the thousands of event organizers who go through this process every year, the experience strikes the cord of familiarity. A vendor promises everything and more during their pitch. The demo is outstanding and the pricing appears to be a great deal. Or so they make it seem.

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Mobile-Optimized Registration- Things Organizers Should Know

Mobile-Optimized Registration- Things Organizers Should Know

The world is now vertical. The internet has the entire world scrolling through 6-inch-long screens. Google Analytics’ Benchmarking feature reported that more than 60 percent of all web traffic worldwide comes from mobile phones. And the proportion of individuals browsing on laptops is less than ever. In fact, statistics show that this could soon plummet even further.

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