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What A Hybrid Event Can Do For Your Next Government Conference

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A few years ago, online events seemed to be the solution for government agencies wanting to cut back on the expenses and travel often associated with in-person conferences. As time has passed, many have realized there are other benefits to blending online opportunities with in-person events.

Here's a look at the top benefits from iCohere:

Pre-Event Exposure and Long-term Engagement

An online platform offers the benefit of connecting with the audience well in advance of the conference. When using a platform that offers online communities, libraries, chat rooms, and discussion forums, meeting planners can engage with conference delegates as early as the planning stage to ensure the conference content will be relevant to the audience.   Continue reading →

Make Your Case – 5 Reasons to Implement a Virtual Conference

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By Lance A. Simon, CGMP, CVEP

So -- you want to implement your first virtual conference! Any good conference starts with a good proposal. Let's take a closer look at the key elements that can help sell your virtual conference project. Think it's just about cost savings? Think again. Here are 5 top benefits you want to highlight.

1) Implement significant cost savings.

A virtual conference eliminates many physical conference costs - travel (of course!) but also conference rooms, advanced materials, on-site support, meeting materials & printing costs, and on-site A/V services. I recently worked with a CDC meeting planner to compare the costs of a basic 3-day physical conference with a comparable virtual conference. We compared 2 sizes - 350 and 1,000 attendees. Costs excepting travel were approximately the same for a 350 person meeting. But the virtual conference scales up with much less cost per incremental attendee --virtual conference costs were 20% lower than a physical meeting, or a whopping 75% lower if travel is included!

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It’s Time to Stretch Into Hybrid Government Meetings!

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Extending a meeting over the internet ("online" or "hybrid" conference/meeting extensions) means broadcasting meeting content in a way that remote attendees - in the U.S. and potentially worldwide - can securely access the presentations, interact with the presenters, discuss the topics online,  chat & network amongst themselves, and access archives of the conference/meeting sessions afterwards.

Here are the top "myths" I hear from government meeting planners:

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It’s Time to Stretch Into Hybrid Government Meetings

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Extending a meeting over the internet ("online" or "hybrid" conference/meeting extensions) means broadcasting meeting content in a way that remote attendees - in the U.S. and potentially worldwide - can securely access the presentations, interact with the presenters, discuss the topics online,  chat & network amongst themselves, and access archives of the conference/meeting sessions afterwards.

Here are the top "myths" I hear from government meeting planners:

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