A Guide to Writing Perfect Thank You Emails After Your Event

A Guide to Writing Perfect Thank You Emails After Your Event

It is the season of gratitude. As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, it is the right time to talk about the post-event thank you email. Many event organizers already know that your event isn’t truly over until you have thanked the attendees, speakers, sponsors and your team for their contributions. Sending a thank you message is your chance to have a lasting impression on people involved in your event. 

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Complete Guide on How to Design Attractive Event Badges

Complete Guide on How to Design Attractive Event Badges

Event​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ badges are more than just a means to identify a name. They shape the first impression of your event, help build your brand, and give your attendees the freedom to move around. The badge of an event not only attracts the attention of people but also enhances the check-in process efficiently and allows people to get in touch with each other. A properly designed badge is a mirror of the professionalism of the event-hosting team. Continue reading

A Detailed Guide to Event Personalization For Organizers

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. 

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

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.

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

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

 

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

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

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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.

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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

 

 

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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.

 

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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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A Definitive Guide to Building an Event Website [PDF]

Guide to building an event website

 

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.

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