Tag Archive: virtual event

Make Your Hybrid Event A Romper Room Experience

Tweet   Are you old enough to remember the children’s television show Romper Room? It ran in the United States from 1954 to 1994. It also was televised in Australia, Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Hybrid Event Lessons From Romper Room Romper Room was aimed at children ages five and…

Digital & Virtual Event Technologies Defined

Tweet No doubt you’ve started investigating the dizzying array of digital solutions for your event: content-capture, hybrid, live stream, on-demand, Skype, videoconferencing, virtual, webinar, 2D, 3D. It can be perplexing. Especially when you are used to planning face-to-face events. Often people confuse terms and technologies. We have yet to adopt a standardized vocabulary for this…

Virtual Events Coming Out Party 2010 [Infographic]

Tweet 2010 was the coming out party for Virtual Events. What was once viewed upon skeptically by meeting planners, trade show organizers, event marketers, and marketers is quickly becoming an integral part of one’s event and marketing strategies. The Virtual Edge Institute compiled 2010 surveys and created this Infographic as a resource for those considering…

Toto, I Don’t Think We Are In The Meeting Venue Anymore

Tweet 7 Tips For Successful Live Streaming Events This article was written (well, ghostwritten by me in collaboration with Dave Lutz) for Dave’s People & Processes column in PCMA’s September edition of Convene.  Recently we looked at the logistics needed for a successful hybrid event. That live streaming cheat sheet addressed the five types of hybrid…

Virtual Tradeshows: Horizontal Or Vertical Markets?

Tweet This post is by Dave Lutz, Managing Director of Velvet Chainsaw Consulting. If you’re a show organizer, you’re probably wondering how to best leverage virtual event technology to help drive revenue, engagement and attract new blood. You might consider a virtual event to incubate a new show idea, attract an international audience, bridge the…