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10 Attendee Complaints About Virtual Conferences—and How to Prevent Them

Like us, you’ve probably attended a few virtual events recently and discussed them afterwards with colleagues. The same complaints about virtual...

Advice for Engaging Virtual Conference Attendees

Remember what attending a conference was really like? If you looked around the room during a session, many attendees had their heads down in their...

How to Prepare Attendees for a Virtual Conference—and Other Online Learning Options

The modus operandi these days is making the best of a bad situation. Many associations are containing the financial ripple effects of cancelled...

Is It Time to Consider a More Sustainable Professional Development Strategy?

Every year around this time, a slew of articles are published about trends for the year ahead. So far, in every 2020 event trends article we’ve read,...

Gain the Trust & Loyalty of Students & Recent Graduates by Looking Beyond Student Membership

As older members retire, associations must keep the young member pipeline full. One strategy is to offer a student membership rate at a steep...

Tips for Converting Instructor-Led Training to E-Learning

Everyone thinks your association’s popular pre-conference workshop would make a great online course. Converting it should be simple, right? Just take...

How to Continue the Conference Learning Experience

Conferences consume a great deal of your association’s time and financial resources. Should they take such a primary place in your association’s...

Flipped Learning Increases the Value of Conference Education

Everyone knows that sitting in an audience listening passively to a speaker is not an effective way for adults to learn, yet that’s still the norm at...

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