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Meeting Design Award at BEA World
For the second year, Bea World Festival has signed a partnership with the Meeting Design Institute to assign a Meeting Design Award within the Best Event Awards, the global competition dedicated to events and live communication.
5 Practical Steps on How to Build Up Your Event Community
Here's a universal truth: you can plan and run an event without caring about building a community. But if you're using events as a marketing tool and you ignore the necessity of growing a community around your brand, services, or products, then you can forget about positive ROI.
5 Factors to Be Aware of When You Schedule the Event Date
What does everyone do before purchasing an event ticket? Check their availability on that day(s). Obviously, if their schedule is packed with important commitments, people will probably decide not to attend your event.
The 5-Step Guide to Generating Memorable Event Experiences
Do you know what the best indicator that attendees loved your event is? They still remember it for days (or weeks!) afterward. Successful events are transformational and help attendees get out of their comfort zone by experiencing something different.
How to Deliver Content to Engage Your Attendees
If you want to engage your guests, there are also other ways to do it than through event management apps. Many digital tools promise flawless and immediate attendee interaction and engagement, yet some 'traditional' strategies with a little twist can work better than you think.
Entries are open for the Best Event Awards
Time has come to apply for the Best Event Awards 2017 and contend for the renowned golden elephant awards and the Bea World Grand Prix in the global competition dedicated to events and live communication.
How to Provide an Easy-to-Understand Event Sitemap
Have you ever had to rush to catch a flight in a big airport with many levels, checkpoints, and gates? How did you feel? Most probably, you were stressed and frantic. However, chances are you made it and caught the flight.
How to Set Up a Successful Meeting Design
Have you ever stopped to really wonder if traditional meetings or events work well? Sure, you may run a cool event, schedule an interesting agenda, and invite well-known speakers... but is that enough?
5 Reasons Why You Should Engage With Your Attendees After the Event
Your last attendees just left the building, and you're ready to turn off the lights and go home. The event was a success, and the only thing left to do is congratulate yourself and go get some rest. You're ready to close this chapter and move on to the next event. Not so fast!
What an Event Planner is NOT
There are quite a few misconceptions and prejudices about our interesting and versatile profession. For instance, how often are you asked: 'Could you perhaps organise my birthday party?'
Ultimate Tips on How to Add Value to Your Attendees
Your ultimate goal as an event planner is to create value and help your attendees optimize certain aspects of their lives, businesses, or careers. Whether it's through education, networking, entertainment, creativity, or active engagement, your guests should notice a certain improvement in their lives after attending your events.
Ticketmaster Now Shows Virtual View from Every Seat in an Event Venue
When you're buying tickets for a concert or event, you want to be sure that you'll have a good view on the stage. Ticketmaster has developed a new innovative solution: 3D Virtual Venue: clever technology which offers you a 3D view from the seat of your choosing.
How to Plan and Run a Powerful Hackathon
If you think that organizing a hackathon means putting on a clever geeky T-shirt while checking the Wi-Fi connection, you are terribly wrong. To set up a hackathon, you'll have to engage all of your planning skills and tack on one sleepless night (yes, hackathons usually run for 24 hours without a break).
Impressive Innovative Technology behind the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Those of you who have seen the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest know that the show looks very impressive. 1000 m2 LED screens, 3300 m truss, 1816 lighting fixtures, 212 tonnes of material in the roof, ... The figures alone are staggering.
The Best Way to Promote Your Event (It's Not What You Think)
Picture this: you are in charge of planning and running an event. You designed a compact event program, invited a bunch of amazing speakers, and booked the best venue ever. Apart from that, you had time to set up a promising social media marketing strategy that will definitely boost your event promotion.
5 Ways Live Streaming Will Make Your Events Successful
No doubt, you can list countless reasons why to not live stream your event. Maybe you've convinced yourself that live streamed events symbolize the death of face-to-face meetings. After all, who would come to your conference, workshop, or seminar when they can just 'tune in' via live video?
The Next Web Organises Music Summit
Award winning tech festival TNW Conference and world-renowned music agency MassiveMusic present Music Summit, an entirely new and specially curated three hour program that will take place on the second day of the conference.
How to Craft an Engaging Social Program and Conquer Your Attendees
Stop what you're doing for a second, check the program of your next event, and ask yourself, "Is there something I could improve to enhance the attendee experience?"
5 Ways to Engage your Participants Even More
"This was the best event experience ever." That is what you as an event planner would like to hear from your participants. Only then are you truly satisfied. Engagement is one of the tools that can help you achieve that goal.
Important Questions to Ask Before Engaging Attendees with Gamification
Concidering gamification for your event? Make sure you'll ask the right questions upfront to select the most suitable tools.
