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In seasons à 6 weeks we will share our event planning experience, inspirational insights, and useful tricks with you to support you organizing meetings and events more successfully. Each season will be dedicated to a specific topic or event-related area.
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Season 6 – Hybrid Event Planning
What makes a hybrid event successful? It’s definitely not a combination of the most fanciest event tools, but a careful consideration of both event experiences. And it all starts during …
Are hybrid events the safe and successful format in uncertain planning times? Check these essential points when thinking about going hybrid to make sure your event will benefit from this …
Season 5 – Remote Team Building & Event Gamification
Organizing a memorable virtual event requires extraordinary experiences. Achieve more interaction and boost engagement at your next virtual event with these five easy but genius ideas.
From fear of virtual events to not taking them serious enough: avoid these common event planning mistakes and rock your virtual events. Follow SLOP to stream business events professionally.
You can invest a lot of time in event gamification and see no change in attendee behavior. Keep these vital tips in mind when planning the gamification of your event …
Increase your event potential and steer your attendees to interact with your content by using gamification. These principles boost interaction at online as well as offline events.
Do you want to organize inspiring, memorable events? Then the answer is pretty simple: turn the fun level up! Companies who let their team think BIG, motivate for success.
How to link remote teams effectively? Learn what you can do today to (socially) connect your remote colleagues and boost productivity as well as team spirit.
The importance of quality sound is often underestimated. At virtual events the sonic experience plays an even more important role as targeted senses are limited.
Experience design is about the level of interaction at events and the stimulus of senses and emotions which, in turn, lead to long-lasting relationships that elevate your company’s success.
Successful projects are the outcome of real teamwork. Learn how gamification helps to create the bonds that are needed for innovation and how to work hand in hand through team …
Keep your remote team connected: These five activities are easy to implement and don’t cost anything, but will reward you with team loyalty and increased productivity.
Planning your event remotely lets us face communication barriers that have never come up in the usual office space. Learn how to improve communication and save everyone time and nerves.
Events teach us a lot about motivation boosts and how to keep employees (our audience) engaged to achieve outstanding results as a team. Benefit from our tips to increase your …
Season 4 – Online Events & Digital Possibilities
Are micro events as powerful as large-scale events? Find out why or when to benefit from this growing small event trend. Are these 5 reasons important for you?
Proximity chats give virtual networking back what it lives from: true social interaction. No forced video calls with the entire team but individual conversations around topics that interest YOU with …
Make use of the advantages and possibilities that LED video walls provide and use them for corporate events and conferences. LED screens enhance virtual as well as hybrid event stages …
Spice up corporate meetings and events by adding holographic elements for an enhanced event experience. From holo dialogues to hologram presentations and entire holo shows, let this technology boost interaction …
Hybrid events have made a huge progress and became much more popular over the past year. The reasons are quite obvious: large in-person gatherings were and often still are not …
Virtual Escape Room Games are the ultimate activity to boost a team’s morale, keep everyone entertained, and keep remote teams connected. All taking place virtually provides for social distancing and …
Successful virtual events live from high energy levels of the audience. Boost engagement at your virtual conference with these smart and simple gamification ideas!
Virtual stage is not the same as live stage. Check out these best practices to be an effective virtual event speaker and get prepared for your next virtual speaking engagement.
By following these tips to choose the best virtual event platform you will stay confident in the virtual world and don’t let your online event become the next horror story.
Don’t lose the saved time of walking to a meeting room by dealing with unnecessary technical issues at your online meeting. Follow these 5 tips to organize video conferences efficiently.
How to visit venues when traveling is restricted? Ever tried virtual site visits? They come with another benefit: create a virtual extension to any event using avatars in virtual meeting …
Zoom is user-friendly and used widely for private and business meetings. But when does it really make sense to use Zoom and can it deliver a professional event experience?
Season 3 – Event Location Ideas
Corporate events and meetings represent your company’s success. Will you be able to organize it all by yourself or should you get support? When these are your top priorities, you …
Kick off your next event at Villa Mdina, a farmhouse converted into an elegant event location with exceptional catering and versatile, landscaped gardens to provide a stunning backdrop for product …
Altes Mädchen Braugasthaus – rustic, charming meeting spaces, restaurant, and brewery combined in one. The Altes Mädchen Dielen provide a cozy atmosphere that invites your attendees to participate and mingle …
The Sturmfreie Bude provides all you need for creative meetings in an inspiring atmosphere, engaging team building workshops, and cozy dinner events with colleagues or clients.
Are you looking for an event location to create magical moments in a unique scenery? Then don’t miss checking out the Penha Longa Resort, a true treasure located in a …
Make your meetings and events stand out with impressive event locations like the Mediterranean Conference Centre. Its medieval charm, modern technology, and outstanding service will make for memorable human interaction.
Meet comfortably ‘outside’ during winter or dine under the stars while it’s freezing around you. The Westin Palace in Milan makes it possible with their rooftop installation The Circle Experience.
Stunning illuminations for spectacular opening ceremonies combined with multiple meeting rooms and huge private gardens – Barceló Sevilla Renacimiento leaves nothing to be desired.
Ergonomic furniture, latest AV technology, excellent staff, set on top of a hill with panoramic view of Sitges and the sea, are the ingredients for outstanding conferences and events at …
Throw amazing receptions and jungle-like events in the Copenhagen Towers’ Atrium. The Crowne Plaza Hotel’s CO2-neutral building makes sustainable event planning easy.
The Spreespeicher in Berlin convinces with superb flexibility, uplifting design, and beautiful river view. Never underestimate the power of an inspiring event location.
Combine industrial charm with modern design and you get a memorable event setting. The Former Main Customs Office in Hamburg, Germany, makes your event one of a kind.
Season 2 – Eco-friendly Events & Remote Planning
Up your event organization and follow the plastic-free approach of Antigua and Barbuda. Are you taking the challenge and making your conference the next successful best practice?
Event organizers are not only facing new regulations since COVID-19 from authorities, but also the needs of our attendees have changed. Have you prepared these measures for your next event …
Packaging for conference items makes a huge amount of the event’s waste. Look at eco-friendly ways to optimize packaging or avoiding it at all with these ideas.
Eco-friendly or not, there is no party as colorful without balloons, right? What if I told you there is a way for truly sustainable event planning that may or may …
Get started with your virtual event today. Ease your mind with these hands-on tips before, during, and after your event, and host your digital meeting like a pro.
Get your compact green event checklist to remind you of different possibilities, which you can check off easily while planning your next meeting.
How a switch from slow paper-based organization chaos to dynamic digital event planning will lead to happy attendees, reduced blood pressure, and save you money!
Check out the most important topics to keep an eye on when going virtual. Get your foot into the virtual event world and host your next event successfully and confident.
Pay attention to these characteristics when looking for a successful remote freelancer and get the best support for your corporate team.
How to organize corporate meetings eco-friendlier and NOT increase your work load. Smart event managers follow these tips on their way to sustainable event planning.
How to plan sustainable events and rethink your choices with green event planning. Get corporate event management ideas that can save you money!
Planning greener meetings is too expensive and too complex. Is it really? I don’t think so! Check all the benefits sustainable event planning has for you.
Season 1 – Events vs. Experiences
Why isn’t it enough to let them be regular employees or customers? Why do we want to convert them into fans?Well, let’s see what to keep in mind when planning …
If your meeting or conference doesn’t interact with your participants, your message will not connect with them. But the activation of your attendees’ minds will lead to an action afterwards! …
We are a culture that loves to meet and attend events. They dominate a big portion of everyone’s work calendar. So, how can we make meetings, events, or trade fairs …
The next event or meeting came up short notice again? How can you excel with so little time to focus on every detail? There are some very simple and basic …
By nature, people love to interact with their surroundings, to experience and understand everything by using their five senses. That’s why events are the perfect tool to communicate your company’s …
What if we could make our guests become free brand ambassadors for our events? Make our guests identify themselves with our brand, company, and event and share the message? Willingly, …
Have you ever felt that guests at your event somehow must have been totally disconnected from what was happening around them? Maybe they even left the venue and you could …
Our feelings are one of the most powerful tools to use to manipulate us. We react emotionally to everything we experience. These moods can range from mildly positive to strong …
Nobody does events for fun. Ok, maybe some do, but nobody should miss the opportunity events provide. In the end, an event is an amazing marketing tool. It’s an investment, …
Don’t limit yourself to event services offered in your city. Most event planning tasks can be done digitally. Thus, search beyond your outskirts and rather focus on finding the best …
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The alarm rings, I get up and open the doors of my tent. What a beautiful sunshine this morning. Just the energy boost I need to start another successful day. …