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By Nicole Olsen and the 6Connex Team In this guest blog, MediaPlatform partner 6Connex explains the basics of hybrid in-person and virtual events. Last year, COVID-19 completely revolutionized the events industry and disrupted many business practices across the globe. Organizations quickly halted large in-person gatherings and brought virtual events to...

By Nicole Olsen In this guest blog, George Richards from MediaPlatform partner Hive Streaming helps you gauge whether your network will be ready when video-savvy employees return to the office. Can your network handle the increase in video usage when your employees start to come back to the office? As...

By Mike Newman While every company will have a unique view on the right time to return to the office, it appears that many are now planning to do so with a hybrid home- and office-based workforce. While going back from whence you came sounds simple enough, over the last...

By Darian Germain While that term may conjure visions of rudimentary 3D renderings and animations, our customers recognize that today’s virtual event is an entirely different thing. Next-gen virtual events take advantage of everything the online experience has to offer –such as imaginative settings, global attendance, and myriad ways to...

By Nicole Olsen Because of the pandemic there have been radical changes to how events are hosted. While event goals remain the same – bringing people together to meet a common objective – how we now run these events has changed. Like almost every other thing we do, events are...

By Nicole Olsen Corporate communicators have welcomed the increased adoption of video collaboration tools to stay connected with remote workforces over the last year. Platforms such as Zoom, Webex, and Teams have kept employees (and students) around the world engaged and in touch during a time of significant uncertainty. However,...

By Nicole Olsen If you have ever live streamed an event, you know there’s always the chance that something goes awry. The Wi-Fi could cut out, the camera could stop working, or the presenters could forget, or derail from, their script. While odds are that everything will be fine, it’s...

By Mike Newman Each year, Miriam Webster’s dictionary adds a word-of-the-year.  Not surprisingly, the word for 2020 was “pandemic,” although it should not have surprised anyone if the word had been Zoom – the formerly obscure virtual meeting company that became ubiquitous virtually overnight. For those of us who make our...