Training | Glisser's audience engagement and event analytics blog

Questions are one of the fastest (and easiest) ways to engage your audience during a live presentation.

There is a common fear from many event organisers, educators and employers that event tech can lead to a less engaged audience. However, with the growing list of events embracing event tech, many attendees expect it at events. So use it at your next event and your engagement levels will spike!

You will no doubt be aware of ‘the Beast from the East’ and the impact it created across the UK. If you're from further afield, this was the phrase given to blisteringly cold and wintry conditions that swept the UK late last year.

The Glisser team recently camped out at Bold Venues in Shoreditch under the ‘2018 and Beyond’ theme – an offsite meeting with the aim of developing our core ‘Company Values’ and discussing our culture.

According to one poll, 70% of employees are not engaged in their job. Disengagement is more likely to result in low morale, poor performance, and eventual turnovers. Managers and HR staff need to keep their workforce engaged in order to produce a desirable output. One way to do this is through team building events with gamification in place.

With over 10,000 presenters and event managers using the Glisser platform, we thought it would be useful to pull together a few tips and tricks to help you get the most out of our software.

Cohort by cohort, higher education students are becoming more digitally proficient. Today’s students use intuitive apps to perform all sorts of day-to-day activities, from ordering lunch to banking or finding a lift home.

In January, we shared an article on our blog titled 5 Student Engagement Tips to Kick-Start 2017. This time, we're back to share 5 more methods to help you engage the classroom, with a specific focus on how educators can use technology to enhance learning and boost student interaction.

Mike Piddock and Steve New first met nearly 20 years ago. Mike was a first year undergraduate, starting a degree at Hertford College, Oxford in Economics and Management; Steve was a young academic, and one of Mike’s tutors. In the intervening years Mike has become Founder and CEO of Glisser, an award-winning event-technology business.

Have you ever asked yourself how you could engage your students better? How could I get them to be just a little bit more interested? Or even, how do I get them off their damn phones?