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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...

By Darian Germain In working with customers, we often hear about two common scenarios where companies incur significant (often hidden) costs as a result of a failed live webcast. The first source of costs is the time spent by the event production team in post-mortem meetings trying to diagnose the...

  By Darian Germain Throughout the pandemic, employees have had a lot of questions for their leadership. Are we allowed in the office? How long will I have to work from home? Is it safe to return to the office? What is our COVID-19 safety plan? Are we still profitable?...

By Nicole Olsen You’ve just completed an amazing town hall. Or so you think. But how do you know for sure if it was successful? Some will base the success of a town hall on how many people attended; but that metric really has nothing to do with the actual...