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29 Tips to Successfully Promote Your Virtual Event
Follow these tips to create a successful multi-channel promotion plan for your virtual event.
What Are and What Do Digital Credentials Mean for Event and Meeting Pros?
In the event and meeting environment, a digital credential generally serves as proof that a person has taken a professional development course and demonstrated understanding of a set of related skills or competencies.
ELI Virtual Event Profile: Sharon Schenk, CMP
Like many others, at the end of April 2020, Sharon Schenk, Director, Conventions and Event Management for CCA Global Partners, knew their in-person summer convention couldn’t proceed as planned. But canceling the convention wasn’t an option. Sharon and the entire convention team knew members still needed education, and now, critical pandemic-related information.
How to Keep Event and Meeting Skills Sharp
Our goal is to provide our community with the resources and timely insights to stay informed. Check out these resources to keep your skills sharp for the rest of 2020 and into 2021.
Event Leadership Institute Announces New Business Owner Mentorship Program
The Event Leadership Institute (ELI) – the long-time leader in professional development programs for event and meeting professionals – has announced a new Business Owner Mentorship Program for event agency owners and other event industry business professionals needing support during this time of crisis.
Four Content Design Tips for Virtual Events and Meetings
Now that events and meetings of all kinds have moved to virtual formats, planners face additional considerations around content design. Paying careful attention to content delivery is necessary to meet online learners' expectations and achieve overall event goals and objectives. Here are four tips for effective content design.
The Event Leadership Institute Releases Results from Attendee Preferences for Live Events in the COVID-19 Era Survey
According to new research conducted by the Event Leadership Institute (ELI), 96 percent of attendees expect organizers and planners to provide a clear statement and agreement for all participants to follow event rules.
This is just one of several key findings from the ELI research report released today, “Attendee Preferences for Live Events in the COVID-19 Era.”
New Research Reveals Attendees’ Preferences for Live Events in the COVID-19 Era
As many begin planning for 2021 and are wondering what to expect for live events, the Event Leadership Institute (ELI) recently set out to provide planners with data and insights around how guests feel about attending on-site events – including the health protocols and procedures they expect to feel safe.
14 Inspirational Reads for Event and Meeting Planners
Whether you’re downloading something new on your Kindle to curl up with on your next staycation, or are embracing this time to invest in professional and personal development, here’s a fresh dose of new reads to keep you going strong.
Planning for the Return of Modified In-Person Events
What will on-site events look like when they do resume? What shifts do planners need to make in their strategies and plans? And how can we convince all involved it’s safe to participate?That’s a tall order to answer, which is why we sat down with Kevin White, head of the Boston-based, award-winning experiential event agency XPL.
4 Reasons Why Now is Ideal to Invest in Your Event Team’s Professional Education
Whether you and your team’s goals are to find new ways to pivot this year’s meetings and events to virtual approaches or start the wheels turning for pandemic meeting and event design, here’s why embracing professional education now has a significant pay-off.
The Event Leadership Institute in Partnership with Meeting Professionals International Launches New Pandemic Meeting & Event Design Online Certificate Course
As meeting and event professionals continue to grapple with the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Event Leadership Institute (ELI) has developed a new online certificate course in partnership with Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the largest meeting and event industry association worldwide.
The Essential Checklist for Virtual Event Planning
Here is an essential planning checklist to get started, which can be tailored for your specific virtual event to stay on track, on-time, and on-budget.
How to Plan a Virtual Non-Profit Fundraising Event
To understand how to successfully and strategically plan a virtual non-profit fundraising event, we talked to Lindsay Landman, founder of Beyond the Benefit and a widely respected event designer who has helped non-profits in every sector raise millions of dollars to support their missions.
14 Tech Tools to Help Pivot Your Event Planning
Here are several tech tools to help pivot your event and meeting planning in the COVID-19 era. (This list isn’t comprehensive—just a small sampling of all the available event management and planning technology!)
Wedding Budget Tips for Clients in the Time of COVID-19
To help you work with your clients during this difficult time and still pull off the wedding of their dreams, here are six budgeting tips considering the COVID-19 pandemic and the additional difficulties it presents.
Virtual Event Planning: A Round-Up of 25 Need-to-Know Stats
Covering everything from planning and budgets to promotion and attendee engagement, use this round-up of 25 stats to develop your virtual strategy.
Situation Report: Questions About the Purpose of Virtual Events
Group members report on how their firms are faring and offer coping strategies amid the massive disruption from COVID-19.
Virtual Event Lingo: 23 Terms to Know
We’ve designed a glossary for many popular terms that come up when it comes to planning virtual events and meetings.
How to Plan an Effective Live Stream for Your Meetings and Events
With events and meetings canceled or postponed due to COVID-19, the need for live streams is amplified. Get a quick primer on planning an effective live stream.