Conference Tracker News
How to Keep Connected in a Virtual Event Environment
Why do we hold events? We love connection. Whether it be through networking with colleagues and friends or forming new relationships with suppliers, live events have always provided a conduit for maintaining and forming connections. In this anti-contact era, we are facing the reality of the virtual event for the...
10 Ways to Retain Your Sponsorships for Your Virtual Event
Sponsorships are a valuable event asset for both the organizer and the supplier. A critical source of funding, they are the bread and butter for events. In addition to funding, sponsorships create incentives for your vendors to support your event. Vendors depend on sponsorships to gain brand awareness, acquire visibility,...
Engineerica’s Involvement in the Events Community
Representatives from Engineerica have been busy this quarter. We participated in a few Tech and Beers Orlando meetups to see what the local tech community consisted of, see the latest trends and make sure we...
The Exhibitor and Attendee Experience
When exhibitors attend trade shows they are there for business and contact development (Han & Verma, 2014). Participants attend conferences for experience and educational value. Addressing the gray area between an attendee experience, and exhibitor experience may be the difference between having more exhibitors attend or less at the...
How I Became the Event Ninja and Train My Shinobi
During an event, it is incredibly exhilarating to be “on my game” – making sure everything is running like clock-work and providing services that a participant never sees but facilitates their elevated experience. A few years back, I was tasked with coordinating and executing a retreat for approximately 20 event...
Preventing Spread of Illness at Your Event
Conferences and other networking events bring together people from all walks of life and often from many different regions. With this comes great opportunities for conversation, sharing ideas, and unfortunately, sharing germs. Illness can easily be spread through handshakes and other close contact during events. Travelers from other regions may...
Conference Tracker Tip: Use Conference Analytics to Improve your Service
Conference Tracker has a valuable tool that will help you improve your next conference: Conference Analytics. Use this tool to: 1) View the most popular sessions at your conference. This is a good report to help you decide which session to bring back next year. 2) View a summary of attendance...
Conference Tracker Tip: Use Online Conference Surveys
Many conference organizers collect feedback on their conferences. Usually paper surveys are given to attendees, filled out onsite, and then collected for analysis. The surveys can be on a certain session or on the entire conference in general. Using Conference Tracker, you can automate the feedback process and convert it...
Conference Tracker Tip: Send an Attendance Summary Report to your Conference Attendees
In addition to the ability to broadcast attendance certificates to your attendees, you can also broadcast a general attendance report. Here is how: Launch the Conference Tracker "Email Broadcast" feature Select "All Attendees" in the "To" field. Create your email template. In the template, use the dynamic field $Sessions$ to list all...
Conference Tracker Tip: Monitor Attendance in Real Time!
Conference Tracker makes it easy for you to monitor attendance at your conference! Once your account has been setup prior to the conference then simply login to Conference Tracker with your account login information and you will see a chart showing live attendance activity as shown in the sample to the right. As you...