Scoring an Invite?
Best prediction is that in-person events will not cater to the hoi polloi. In-person events will seek out executives: dangling golden opportunities for networking and one-to-one, in-person meetings. (CMS Wire )
The Creator Economy | OCTOBER 13 | 3pm EDT | ZOOM
Last Chance to Sign Up For Our Field Trip to Fandom
Faisel Durrani from Looped and Jim Louderback from Vidcon will pull back the curtain on the possibilities that the creator economy holds for all of us.
I’ve often wondered whether I run Powerpoint or Powerpoint runs me! This week I played with Prezi for the first time in a long time. It’s always been an outlier because it lets you present your thoughts in a non-linear, but grouped-by-topic, order. Now it’s added a recorder for
doing a quick video with you and your slides, and some nice design tools for infographics and animated effects. Free trials make it a no brainer to try out.
LinkedIn Does Video Meetings
So you met your dream connection on LinkedIn but really want to chat them up? For the past few months LinkedIn has been providing video calls (either scheduled or instantaneous). You need to click on the messaging button on the main toolbar and then select the video icon.
It’ll prompt you from there. Note that you save the invite reminder to LinkedIn, and there are no options for other calendars. It doesn’t work with Firefox and you can only talk to one person at a time. But it does bring the consummate professional community one step closer to being a video conferencing/events platform.
Are Your Zoom Invites Fugli?
If you’ve ever received a Zoom invite you know that they look about as pretty as the classified ads in a newspaper. (Does anyone remember them?) Luma puts a pretty face on Zoom's "fugli" invites. Added bonus? It’ll send meeting reminders out and track analytics.
Scuttlebutt
A Treasure Trove of Event Data If you ever need to convince the boss to increase the marketing budget or put you on the fly-list to the next event, you will find the data to back up your arguments here. Gavel
International is an events and incentive company and they left no datapoint unturned. Here are the big takeaways from our POV:
Virtual meetings will be blissfully shorter than in-person.
Hybrid events will be so complicated that you’ll need to outsource them to preserve your sanity.
The ROI on virtual events through sponsorships, lead generation, and other revenue sources will be measurable.
NFTs and Virtual Events Get Hitched Earlier this year our friends at CoinDesk joined our meetup to tell us how they created $DESKCOIN, an in-event currency redeemable for experiences and merchandise. Well, Buzzcast just announced that it’s baking NFTs into its events platform. And, DC, the popular comic book publisher, is also doling out free
non-fungible tokens of its popular comic book covers to people who register for the upcoming FanDome event (virtual this year). Mark our minted words, NFTs are just what the virtual events doctor ordered.
The Wedding Planner We can all learn something from Joy, a wedding planning company that offers a tech-based platform for couples that goes beyond the usual flowers and venue to include things like ride sharing, maps, song requests, and multi-event RSVPs. The lesson —
think through the details from your guests’ POV.
Hearty welcome to Shindig, our newest member. We depend on our members to fuel our mission of making better meetings. And our members depend on us to make valuable connections and
land new projects. Visit the showroom to see our newest exhibits.
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 14 | 1pm
Robin will be speaking to the folks at Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) sharing tips and tricks for successful events. Normally you need to be an SIIA member to attend but VEG members should email Jule.Sylvester@gmail.com to score
the secret free code.
Let’s play in the metaverse, the online world where every brand, creator, meeting maker, and events planner is experimenting with the future of digital engagement. Hear from the metaverse’s guru, Cathy Hackl, and then let’s tour Virbella — a campus in the metaverse that has everything from office space to beaches and speakeasies. Don’t forget to
register to reserve your space.
