COVER STORY: Virtual Events: We’ve Reached the Tipping Point—Four critical factors driving digital meetings forward
1. A Blueprint for the New Reality—How to manage a meetings portfolio featuring both in-person and virtual events: objectives, budgeting, and staff responsibilities.
2. The Virtual Platform in Action—A major pharmaceutical firm converted one of its two annual in-person sales meetings to the digital medium. Here’s how it went.
3. Interpersonal Benefits from Online Meetings—Think teambuilding and bonding can’t be done virtually? Think again.
On Tap: So Many Questions, and Some Hope—Meetings and conventions have a long road to travel to get to the other side of this pandemic, but planners are innovating and persevering.
On the Fly: Virtual incentive events… word of the month: confauxrence … event bags become masks
On the Scene: Global Meetings Industry Day goes virtual.
Association: Modeling Innovation—ASAE’s Great Ideas Conference rolls out learning circles, Ignite sessions, leadership “intensives,” and more.
IdeaXchange: Top 10 Ways to Make Your Virtual Events Not Suck—Staffing, format, interactivity, and training all play a role in creating better online meetings.
Sites & Venues: Our monthly gallery of new and renovated meeting properties around the world