A/V & Special Effects
May 14, 2012
Ten critical tips for incorporating IT into your next meeting or event
The main purpose of an event or a meeting is to have “face-to-face” engagement with the attendees. The meeting and event industry is in a transition period where event planners can increase attendee retention and maximize on extended audiences all around the world through electronic means. Anyone planning an event must be sure to let IT enhance the program, not swallow it! Events are based on “face-to-face” time with clients, peers and colleagues.
March 30, 2012
Audience Response Systems increase meeting productivity
Meetings, conferences and training sessions are using Audience Response Systems (ARS) to quickly make group decisions and as a technique to keep audiences engaged. There are different types of ARS for different applications.
March 1, 2012
Five tips for hybrid meeting success
What do you get when you take a typical live event such as a conference, meeting or seminar, add in some high-tech tools such as smartphones, audience response systems and the Internet, and top it off with social media, webinars and other interactive technology? As you’ll discover in this special CMN V-Report, this marriage of technology and face-to-face meeting is known as a Hybrid Event and it is sending a wave of change through today’s event planning industry. Source: By Sean Moon
October 1, 2011
AV insights for effective speaker performance
A great guest speaker performance is crucial to the success of any conference. Event planners go to great lengths to ensure that the speaker is comfortable. This mindfulness of the speaker’s comfort should include their audiovisual support. Video comfort monitor A video comfort monitor is a video monitor that can easily be viewed by the speaker from the stage or podium. Usually the monitor is at the foot of the stage mounted in a wedge formation. This…
July 1, 2011
Tackling audiovisual challenges at unique venues
Unique venues are great to pique the interest of delegates and can offer creative opportunities to incorporate the venue into a theme or message relevant to your group. Unfortunately, those very same virtues can also create a host of audiovisual challenges.
