- How to brief a facilitator to bring your next conference to life Audiences now demand more opportunities to engage and contribute at conferences. They want more interactivity and relevance from speakers. Hiring a professional facilitator who is well-briefed and clear about the meeting objectives, can make a significant improvement to the delegate experience and the meetings’ outcome. Before any briefing takes place, you need to fully understand the differences between an MC/compere/host […]
- 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 […]
- Welcome to the new Glisser As many of you will have noticed we launched a new version of our platform over the weekend and it’s set to revolutionise the way you use Glisser to deliver interactive presentations and collect rich data. So what’s new? 1. New Features We’ve built an entirely new Event Planner View. It gives you complete control […]
- 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. […]
- Cool PowerPoint Templates Don’t Make Good Presentations We’ve all sat through presentations that have put us to sleep. Long, badly designed and delivered with about as much passion as a kid eats lettuce - a presentation delivered poorly can slow down time like nothing else. Of course, none of us want that for our own presentations, but how do we avoid it? In […]
- Fast Films: The Matrix We got a great reaction for The Shawshank Redemption Fast Film and by far the highest vote for our next film (over 40%) was The Matrix. This time our friend Stephen Rixon had a go. Enjoy: (Click right see the slides) Tweet us (@glisser) if you liked it, hated it, didn’t understand it or have a suggestion for how […]
- The Event Lead Engagement Blueprint As you’ve no doubt guessed, our business is the business of events. But as any regular event planners out there will know only too well, there’s a whole lot more to planning an event than what goes on during the day itself. So given our experience of working on hundreds of events, we wanted to […]
- Fast Films: The Shawshank Redemption I’m always preaching about keeping content concise and to the point. So I thought I would test the theory and condense the epic film that is The Shawshank Redemption (2:22 runtime) into 10 slides/sentences or less. See what you think: (Click right see the slides) Tweet me (@kanepowley or @glisser) if you liked it, hated […]
- 5 Vital Steps for Audience Participation Success I’ve just returned from IMEX – the events industry’s flagship conference – where I presented a campfire session on behalf of the Meetings Design Institute. We were discussing how to successfully implement audience participation, with a particular focus on corporate events. Below are the 5 steps I shared with the audience: 1. Get your first speaker on-board […]
- 6 Golden Insights From IMEX 2016 A mainstay in the event agency and planner’s diary, this year’s 3 day IMEX Frankfurt conference was bigger and better than ever before. Team Glisser spent almost 4 days exhibiting as part of the Technology Pavilion, returning not only with lots of memories and new contacts, but a new personal best for breaking down our stand (bang on […]
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