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Please Welcome to the Stage… the Evolved Role of the Virtual and In-person Moderator

Following her on-stage performance as the emcee for Hybrid Events Ignited, Samme Allen sat down with Glisser’s Vanessa Lovatt to discuss the evolved role of the virtual and in-person moderator.

Mike Fletcher, August 27, 2021

Horizon Challenges for Hybrid Planners

With hybrid events now on the horizon, many planners fear that getting hybrid wrong would be a missed opportunity to evolve audience engagement and create event content with year-round longevity. We spoke to freelance conference producer Claire Tulloch about the top five challenges of hybrid events and how to overcome them.

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Mike Fletcher, June 15, 2021

Eight Ways to Convince your Boss on the Benefits of Hybrid Events

What are the most persuasive arguments to convince budget holders to invest in both digital and in-person elements? To help you state a persuasive case, we spoke to David Stanley, Head of Corporate Events at Aztec Live and Adam Simpson, Director of Marketing and US Sales at etc.venues.

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Mike Fletcher, May 10, 2021

Removing Barriers to Engagement

Wordly COO Kirk Hendrickson explains how AI-driven simultaneous interpretation can vastly improve audience engagement by expanding inclusivity and enhancing participation.

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Mike Fletcher, April 7, 2021

Six Ultra-Creative Uses for QR Codes at Events, Conferences & Training Sessions

After years of limited use, the QR code is finding new life thanks to new default camera integrations in smartphones.

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Mike Piddock, February 27, 2020

3 Ways to use Ranking Polls to Engage Audiences

Ranking polls, where delegates are required to arrange a list of options in some sort of order, make an interesting alternative to straight-forward multiple choice poll questions.

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Mike Piddock, February 20, 2020

The Top 10 PowerPoint Alternatives for 2020

PowerPoint was first rolled out by Microsoft in 1987. Since then, they’ve added a raft of features with subsequent versions. It’s been the undisputed presentation king over the past three decades and rightly so - it was one of the first mainstream presentation tools. It revolutionized events, education and training, and everything in between. However, there’s now a plethora of new and exciting alternatives that enable even novice users to create highly visual, engaging and customized presentations.

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Ryan Dornfeld, January 23, 2020

Is this Microsoft's answer to Death by PowerPoint?

Everyone’s familiar with PowerPoint. Which means everyone is also familiar with “Death by PowerPoint”. The misuse of a great presentation tool has soured the brand name and sent everyone in search of PowerPoint alternative. Microsoft is now looking to combat that.

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Mark Simeon, July 18, 2019

Great Icebreakers for your next event

With the increasing implementation of event tech at large scale events, as an event organiser, you’ll want to ensure the audience engages as much as possible with the speakers and content. After all, event tech is one of the best tools to prove the event ROI. For this to happen, it’s a fantastic idea to ensure the audience is comfortable using the event tech.

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Mark Simeon, July 12, 2019

5 benefits of using word clouds at events

Word clouds are loved by presenters and audiences alike. Here are 5 why you should incorporate them into your next event!

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Bradley Smith, April 25, 2019