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How to Live Stream a Webinar on your Event Website

 

The Biggest Disadvantage of Webinar Platforms
For hosting virtual events, organizers generally use a webinar platform like Zoom and share a link to the webinar on their event website. This setup, however, means participants have to check-in to sessions on your event website. Then they’re redirected to the associated Zoom webinar that would open in a Zoom desktop client. Participants then flock back to the site and check-in to another session and are redirected again to the associated Zoom webinar. So, they have to switch between the website and the webinar platform continuously.

The Biggest Advantage of Live-Streaming
As a better alternative, if you want to improve the participants’ experience, so they do not have to move out of the website and go to Zoom to watch the webinar for each session, you can Livestream webinars on your website. This setup lets you offer a branded user experience, ability to monetize through multiple channels and provide audience engagement tools to participants and exhibitors right within the website.

In this article, we will talk about the steps required to Live-stream your virtual sessions on your event website. For this tutorial, we have used the following tools:

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Build & Generate Participation Certificates

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Using Certificate Builder, conference organizers can customize & print certificates for participants. It also takes care of the distribution with multiple distribution channels to choose from. Read on to know more.

Import your Contacts
You can either add contacts one by one, or let them register on their through a public form. Optionally, if you already have their information in a spreadsheet, simply import the spreadsheet into your Dryfta account at once. Once your contacts are imported, you can assign different usertypes to them eg. participants, speakers, organizing staff etc.

Design & Customize Participation Certificates
Go to Certificate Builder and start designing participation certificates for your attendees, students, speakers and general staff. You can design separate certificate for each usertype. When customizing the design of your certificate, you may also upload the conference/seminar’s logo, authorized signatory for the certificate, dynamic information about the participant, sponsors’ logos, additional information about the conference/seminar among other things.

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Create User-Friendly Forms with the All New, Easy-to-Use Form Builder

 

We listened to your feedback and released an update to the form builder tool. The new changes are a great time saver requiring a lot less clicks for creating/copying a field.

Instead of clicking on the Add new field button to add a field, admin would now be displayed with the floating field types in the right side of the form.

They can select a field type to easily add a new field. On selecting a field type, it would open the field editor where admin would enter the field name for the field type selected.

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Schedule your Sessions Fast & Easy with the new Program Scheduler!

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If you host plenty of sessions at your conference, scheduling them must have been no easy task! There’re just so many variables to deal with. Venues, Speakers, Moderators, Presentations, Tracks, Days, Time slots. Multiply that with 10s and 100s of Sessions and you have thousands of probabilities to think about.

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10 Ways To Prevent Burnout When Planning an Event

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We all know that many factors need to be considered when planning an event. And, we also know that trying to figure out all these, along with the most minuscule details, can easily drive almost anyone into a wall. So, before you reach that breaking point while on your pursuit of the perfect event, here are 10 different ways you can alleviate stress and prevent a burnout while planning an event.

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5 Common Problems Event Planners Face

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Event planning includes many different aspects, from picking out the right venue, organizing the catering, ensuring that that everything is coordinated, right down to the most minuscule detail and many other elaborate, important tasks. However, when managing all these at the same time, there will bound to be some slip-ups here and there and we are well aware of those things. Which is why we have decided to put together a list of five of the most common issues that are faced by event planners or managers when they plan for events, so that you don’t make the same mistake too. What are we waiting for, let’s dive right in!

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