- Can Snapchat Really Be Used as a Business Tool? Snapchat has shaken up the world: injecting raw, instant uploads into the social media sphere. So why is it not treated with the same respect as other platforms in the corporate world? Snaphappen, an event dedicated to Snapchat was held for the first time on the Thursday 22nd September at the Magic Roundabout (pretty trendy […]
- 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Creating a Presentation Presentations are a reflection of you as a person, and of your business. A poor presentation can be detrimental to future business deals and growth. So why are so many people still producing bad presentations? The idea of presenting is introduced to us at a young age, many of us come across it at school. […]
- The Dreaded Question: A Presenter’s Worst Nightmare “Any Questions?” It’s the end of your event. You’ve been speaking for a while. Your mouth is dry and you want to go home. But no; the worst is yet to come. As any professional would, you are duty bound to ask this question, even if you’re worried about the response. No one wants to […]
- How to Use One of the Hottest Apps Right Now to Make Your PowerPoint Presentations Less Cringeworthy One of the most time-consuming parts of creating an effective and impactful PowerPoint presentation is sourcing visuals. You know the feeling, you’ve slaved over the key messages and a Hollywood-perfect story arc, only for Google image search to bring up terrible clichés, shockingly naff stock photography and graphical devices that should have been left in […]
- The Reversercoaster: Life at a Startup Big Things, Small Packages Reid Hoffman famously described entrepreneurship as jumping off a cliff and building a plane on the way down. As recent graduate with 8 weeks experience at a startup under my belt, there are plenty of people whose planes are far nearer completion than mine. But from what I’ve learned of startup […]
- Maximising the 3 Points of Event Delegate Engagement Are Your Business Event Attendees Connected and Engaged? Event tech is on the rise. Since the 80s, when the use of integrated sound and visuals was made readily available with tools such as Powerpoint, event technology has come on leaps and bounds. Today, events and seminars can have a slick look and feel on even […]
- Why I Recommend Glisser I first found out about the existence of Glisser when I was attending the annual Enterprise IT Asia event at the Marina Bay Sands in early June this year. What struck me was the banner which headline, “The Presenter’s Secret Weapon”. My curiosity piqued, I approached the exhibitor, Mr Mike Piddock who is also the […]
- Why the Event Industry should be proud of its tech progress March saw the launch of Scott Brinkler’s excellent and now widely anticipated “Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic”, detailing the now gargantuan plethora of MarTech companies that have emerged to better equip marketers in today’s very digital world. First, as an aficionado of both logo design and enormous lists, I was excited to see the latest graphic. […]
- How we Hacked Slack for Events Management using 7 Channels Anybody that has managed an event will tell you that it is one of the most stressful tasks on earth. This is especially surprising when something as simple as clear, fast and consistent communication can solve many of the problems you face. But it’s so hard to achieve. Here at Glisser we’ve run and worked on many […]