Social Engagement & Event Activation Ideas: craft & cred Q&A

Social Engagement & Event Activation Ideas: craft & cred Q&A

With the event industry flipped upside down these past 18 months, there’s a tremendous opportunity to create new best practices, ideas, and innovation. The world just learned to navigate fully virtual events, but now it must tackle a new challenge: invent engagement for hybrid events and recreate excitement for in-person ones.

So what’s new here? We sat down with Gina Michnowicz, CEO & Executive Creative Director of The Craftsman, our agency partner, to get her take on how we can maximize engagement and social strategy when you’re planning your next event. Check out what we learned:

Speaking 101: How to Highlight Your Speaking Experience on Social Media

Speaking 101: How to Highlight Your Speaking Experience on Social Media

We all know social media can boost thought leadership—but, have you ever thought about highlighting your speaking experience on social media? For speakers, social media platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter can be used to highlight your past speaking engagements, show off your presentation skills, and draw a larger audience to your content.

If you’re a speaker who is not active on social media yet—you should be.

Celebrating Juneteenth in the Bay Area in 2021

Celebrating Juneteenth in the Bay Area in 2021

Over the past year, more and more Americans have come to understand and recognize Juneteenth and its significance to Black people in our country.

As a native Black Texan, I grew up knowing about Juneteenth, its significance to not only Texas and Black history, and celebrating it with my family.

For those who haven’t celebrated this holiday, here are some events to help you understand and learn more about Juneteenth.

Speaking 101: What to Include On Your Website

Speaking 101: What to Include On Your Website

Today, it’s important to have a digital presence—and that includes your website. It serves as a one-stop spot for you to highlight your background, your work, your accomplishments, and your accolades.

If you’re building your speaking profile, we have a few tips on what to include on your website:

Celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month 2021

Celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month 2021

Since 1949, the United States has dedicated May as the official month for Mental Health Awareness. Over the past two years, mental health has become a more important discussion that we all are discussing. It’s also made us here at cred stop and take a look at what we and our clients are doing to help take care of our mental health.

Event 101: How to Use Social to Your Advantage While Planning an Event

Event 101: How to Use Social to Your Advantage While Planning an Event

So, the time has come to promote your event and you think you have all your ducks in a row—but are you using all those ducks to their full potential? Today, we break down how to use social media to your advantage when organizing your event.

Event 101: Revisiting the Best Virtual Event Platforms: How to Find What’s Right for You

Event 101: Revisiting the Best Virtual Event Platforms: How to Find What’s Right for You

Back in the naive days of April 2020, when we weren’t exactly sure where COVID would take the event world, we dissected our top virtual platform picks, where we explored ON24, Zoom Webinar, Airmeet, and AnyMeeting.

You might ask “But that was so long ago, cred! Aren’t there so many new players in the game and other platforms we should be considering?” You’d be right! Since a myriad of new platforms have come on the scene, we update you, highlighting their big draws.