How to Make Abstract Submission Forms More Author-Friendly

How to Make Abstract Submission Forms More Author-Friendly.

Abstract submission forms help authors share their work with event teams. Authors work faster when the forms are simple and easy to read. Clear forms reduce delay and help authors understand each step they need to follow. 

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10 Best Ways to Build a Thriving Academic Event Community

10 Best Ways to Build a Thriving Academic Event Community

Academic events bring people together to share ideas and learn. A strong academic event community makes these events even better. A strong academic event community helps its members settle in fast, with clear steps and simple layouts guiding them through the process. These practices help the teams maintain order and create a smooth experience for all users.

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Practical Early Bird Event Registration Strategies for University Events

Practical Early Bird Event Registration Strategies for University Events

Organizing a university conference can be exciting, bringing in many new possibilities. You’re finally getting that symposium approved, securing speakers you’ve admired for years or hosting your department’s flagship annual event. However, for half of all event organizers in universities, come unpredictable attendance numbers and budget uncertainty.

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The Role Of Micro-Interactions For Virtual Event Engagement

The Role Of Micro-Interactions For Virtual Event Engagement

Virtual events: two words that have become part of our everyday vocabulary in the modern digital space. The rapid adoption and subsequent evolution of virtual event platforms in only a few years is remarkable. Despite video conferencing technology being available for public use for over a decade, a fully immersive virtual event was always a fairly distant concept for most people.

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12 Event Listing Platforms For Academic Event Organizers

12 Event Listing Secrets Every Academic Event Organizer Must Know

It takes blood, sweat and tears to plan and put together a full-scale event or academic conference. The latter is all the more herculean given the nature of it: abstract submissions, their subsequent reviewing and publication for viewing. Just when event planners heave a sigh of relief post-planning, the task of advertising and marketing the conference takes them right back to the grindstone.

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Best Practices to Adopt Digital Payments for Research Conferences

Digital Payments and Invoicing for Research Conferences: Best Practices

The advent of digital payment systems has brought with it some remarkable possibilities for conference organizers. This is especially true for managers of research conferences who previously drowned in a sea of payment reconciliation spreadsheets and manual invoice generation. Some payments arrive as wire transfers, while others come through credit cards; most are processed correctly, but some mysteriously vanish into banking limbo.

The choice of payment methods that international attendees prefer also warrants mild interest. Some others pay twice, just to be sure their registration went through.
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The Role of an Event Platform for Academic Conferences

Event Platform for Academic Conferences

Universities and Research Institutions are considered the ocean of knowledge and innovation. It’s where learners gather to enhance their skills and boost their learning journey. These educational institutions also organize academic conferences, workshops, webinars, seminars, cultural festivals, and other events.

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Common Blunders in Conference Planning and Their Solutions

Common Blunders in Conference Planning and How to Avoid Them

All event managers, regardless of their experience in work, will admit that planning an academic conference from start to finish is a herculean task. And rightfully, the process can feel overwhelming for all those involved. In such scenarios, it’s easier to make mistakes. More often than not, these mistakes are simple yet overlooked.

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How to Attract More Attendees to Your Conference

How to Attract More Attendees to Your Conference


You’ve secured world-class speakers, best in the industry. The agenda is packed with variety and depth. The logistics are planned almost flawlessly. All set for the big day, yet the registration desk isn’t nearly as excited, sparse participation has dampened the mood.

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Top Event Management Features Every Conference Organizer Should Know in 2025

Top Event Management Features Every Conference Organizer Should Know in 2025

Online event management software first began to emerge in the 1990s, enabled by the rise of the internet. Three decades later, in 2025, event management looks radically different. Organizing events and conferences has evolved in ways once considered futuristic. The pioneers who conceptualized and believed in online event management would regard the path we have trodden today in online softwares as entirely achievable. However, the rest would have deemed it almost utopian.

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4 Advantages of Cloud-Based Event Management Software

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Many people are under the impression that event management is somewhat an easy task to accomplish, but only those who are actually in the field would know how many details need to be looked after for a single event to run as smoothly as possible. And it would be a difficult feat to keep track of all these little details separately, which is why most event managers enlist the help of an event management software that helps them to integrate all these components that are required to organize an event, into a single, easy-to-manage platform.

Out of all the several types of event management software that are available in the market, there seems to be a preference for cloud-based event management software. Why, you ask? Let’s find out what the advantages of a cloud-based event management software are and you’ll see why it’s one of the most preferred among event managers and planners.

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Using Experiential Marketing to Increase your Event Footfall

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Running an event isn’t exactly something that you’d refer to as a walk in the park. There are many things that need to be considered in order to ensure its success. Among them, event marketing is a crucial component that most definitely needs to be worked on. Most event planners now resort to experiential marketing to increase the number of people attending their events.

But, what exactly is experiential marketing? It is a method of promotion of your product or service, by way of educating your target market or audience and getting them to experience what you have to offer, first hand. Let’s see how this unique method of marketing can be applied in the world of events.

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