There is no getting away from it. If you have an events business you simply must start looking at online / digital elements of your event. But where to start with online events? One of the busiest areas for our consultancy this year has been around online events. It’s also been a topic that I’ve […]
PCMA EduCon took place in Los Angeles in June 2019 and I was lucky enough to be asked to mentor the attendees of PCMA’s Homeless Hackathon and to present a session on online events. What a packed few days. PCMA continue to dedicate their efforts towards leading the event industry response to homelessness. Following the […]
I would like to think that anyone can learn how to run an amazing event. Even if you are running an annual general meeting, a staff away day, an exhibition, product launch or a conference I see no reason that it can’t be an amazing event. As an industry we have to move away from […]
So you have managed to get a bunch of people to log on and watch your online event. You have done all the hard work and congratulations! But don’t celebrate too soon. Engaging an online event audience is not as easy as you think. In June this year we ran another online seminar for our client […]
In 2017, despite having organised events for almost twenty years, I ran my first completely online event. We had over 500 paying attendees over an eight hour event. Here’s what I learned. 17 things I learned running my first live online event 1. Set measurable objectives when running an online event An online event is no […]
We have been running a successful – in fact sell out – annual conference for a client for three years. During the whole time they have been keen for us to run online events. But we have been cautioning them. It’s SO hard to make money from online events, everyone knows that. Don’t they? No […]