After a year and a half of all-virtual-all-the-time, in-person events are starting to make their way onto our fall calendars.
As we begin to plan and attend events again, the top concern on event managers’ minds is how to be certain that these events occur—our events team has compiled 5 strategies to assure your event can happen safely.
We know that events will continue to be affected by COVID-19; here’s how they’re adapting.
Back in March, at the start of this virtual event renaissance, we gave you the pro Tips to Be an Effective Virtual Speaker and followed up in June with the inside scoop on How to Lead an Engaging Session on the Virtual Stage.
Well, with seven months and hundreds of virtual events under our belt, we’ve compiled our lessons learned and best practices and are back with our most thorough guide yet: the Virtual Speaking Checklist.
Like everything in 2020, the swag bag is adapting to the online world and event organizers are getting more creative than ever. Whether you have an event coming up or are looking for ways to boost internal team engagement, here are some of cred’s favorite ways to curate the new virtual event swag bag.
When the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the events industry in March, event pros quickly pivoted to virtual. The shift was so drastic that business and professional online events increased 1,100% in April compared to April 2019.
Now that we’re half a year into experiencing events from home, we’re starting to notice some trends as virtual conferences become the new norm. Here are 10 virtual conference trends we’re seeing this year.
Welcome to the sixth month of the virtual “new normal!” It almost seems as though years have passed since rumblings of a pandemic were circulating in early March, threatening to bring the events industry to a screeching halt. Optimism was shared through outlooks of “it will go back to normal next month,” or “don’t worry, they won’t cancel the event”—and now, these words cause us to shake our heads at the blissful ignorance our industry was once guilty of presenting.
Luckily, we’ve seen a quick pivot to virtual, and as we plan more and more virtual events, we’re seeing benefits that we never would have anticipated.
We are four months into quarantine, and one of the many things that has changed in our new virtual lives is that events can no longer happen in person. Here at cred, we’ve been closely involved as the events industry has figured out the shift to virtual.
When live events do return, we do not see virtual going away. Virtual events are here to stay and the experience will only continue to improve as virtual event technology is enhanced and event planners, speakers, and attendees become more virtually savvy. This post will focus on the benefits we’ve seen from a speaking perspective.
Change is life’s only certainty. This old adage rings more true in today’s times than ever before. And here at cred, we’ve been working hard to not only track these changes but also provide our partners and followers with the best strategies to tackle.
Our CEO, Caitlin provided some great insights into the conference industry in a blog post in May. Two months later, we’re sharing the latest finds based on our State of Events Survey, distributed to our community of 7,000+ leaders in communications, conference planning, and event marketing.
