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A Detailed Guide to Event Personalization For Organizers

Picture this. You walked into a cafe and asked for a flat white with almond milk. After a few days of ordering your usual, you notice that every time you ask for this specific type of coffee, the barista messes it up. There goes your morning ritual! If the lack of personalization can ruin something as simple as a coffee drinking experience, imagine how detrimental it can be in the context of academic events. This is why event organizers today spend considerable energy on event personalization to create an unforgettable attendee experience.

Decoding Triple-Blind vs Double-Blind vs Single-Blind Review

In the context of the academic and research ecosystem, the process of abstract review becomes the foundation of discourse in events. Abstract blind reviews come in many different types. These different forms of reviews serve different goals, and in certain situations, the level of transparency comes into play.

18 Event Planning Tips for Before, During, and After Your Event

Event planning for academic conferences is much more than deciding on a venue and distributing invites. It is creating an environment that encourages knowledge sharing, fosters collaboration, and welcomes novel ideas. For a global research conference, a university-based symposium, or a student-led academic gathering, the act of planning is important to every facet of making the event fruitful. Continue reading

A Simple Guide to Building Your Academic Conference Website

An academic conference is not simply an event involving a hotel, speakers, and participants; it lives online before, during, and after the event. A sophisticated conference website is no longer a “nice to have” feature. An essential aspect of your infrastructure is providing credibility, communication, marketing, logistics, and long-term community building. Continue reading

How to Create an Online Abstract Submission Form (Step-by-Step)

Collecting abstracts and papers is often the first big milestone in organizing an academic conference. Done manually, it can quickly turn chaotic. With Dryfta’s abstract submission platform, however, you can create a fully online, customizable abstract submission form that adapts to your event’s unique requirements.

EasyChair Not Sending Notification Emails?

A troubleshooting guide for scenarios where authors and reviewers aren’t receiving EasyChair emails, plus how Dryfta ensures automated notifications go out reliably.

The Definitive Guide to Shared (SaaS) vs On-Premise Event Management Software

Picture this: You are planning a major conference that gathers hundreds of influential stakeholders from around the globe. Your registration portal is ready to go live, and the marketing campaign has started. Suddenly, your IT department raises concerns about data privacy, regulatory compliance, and deeper integrations with internal systems. Traditional cloud-based software feels too restrictive, lacking the control and customization your organization demands. Tensions rise as deadlines loom and decisions must be made quickly. This scenario illustrates a challenge many senior event managers face: deciding which type of event management software is the right fit, a SaaS-based event platform that is shared in the public cloud, or an on-premise event management software solution that resides on dedicated infrastructure.

Top 7 Guides for Organizing a Successful Virtual Event

A curated list of guides & resources for organizing a successful virtual event.

The list includes guides & resources for:

Virtual event terminology
Planning a virtual event: content production, technology, rehearsals
Selecting a virtual event platform
Making virtual event exciting

Organising Successful Virtual Events
by Pollicy

Our first virtual event focused on introducing participants to virtual events and we explored options and tips for carrying out successful virtual events.

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:

A Definitive Guide to Building an Event Website [PDF]

As an event planner, having a website is crucial, especially when you are looking for a platform by which people can find you and solicit your services. But, what makes a good event website? And how do you even go about getting your new site up and running? We have all the details you need in this exhaustive guide on how to build an event website.

Step-by-Step Guide to Presenting at Academic Conferences [PDF]

Speaking at an academic conference is a great opportunity researchers look forward to because of the immense possibility of sharing their work with an audience comprising of other researchers, industry experts and corporate heads.

In order to stand out at a conference, you need to make the presentation engaging, interactive and something for the audience to think about and raise questions. But sometimes your nerves may decide to act up at the most crucial point when you are about to make your presentation.

So how do you make sure you give a memorable presentation and tame those pesky nerves? Being well prepared for the conference will allow you to give a great presentation. In this guide, we will provide you with a step-by-step approach to speaking to an academic audience.

Event Marketing Guide for Academic Conferences [PDF]

The most important thing about an event is for it to serve the purpose it was planned, that is, it should reach the targeted audience and participants. Perhaps you are a strategic master at planning events, or you are just learning the art of events planning, but you have not been seeing much of the results you desire; there is something that you are missing out on.

What can make your events stand out, as well as gain the attention of the desired participants and audience is how you market them. Are you already marketing your events but are still not making as much progress as you want? This guide includes 35 event marketing tips you can learn to add more colors to how you plan and execute your meetings.

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