Engaging Your Community in Hybrid Events: 4 Tips for Success Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve seen a massive pivot to virtual events. Now, as many events are starting to be held in person again, some people are still not comfortable or cannot attend due to geographic restrictions. This has led many organizations to get creative and host hybrid events to accommodate both in-person and virtual attendees. Although this type of event first became common during the pandemic, it is likely to remain popular because of the convenience and inclusion of attendees from any geographic location ..read more

4 Pros and Cons to Creating a Microsite for Your Event As your association grows, so does the content you produce. Whether you’re educating members, engaging them at an event, or promoting your new fundraising campaign, you’ll regularly create virtual content that needs to be hosted somewhere. Your website is the heart of your organization's online presence, but housing all of your content there can quickly lead to long loading times and cluttered navigation. More complex content,  such as your communication and engagement tools for a hybrid event, also requires more dedicated space than ..read more

Written by CadmiumCD Contributor Pamela Shigeoka What’s the first thing most of your virtual event attendees will see when event time rolls around? Your event website, of course! So your website should be eye-catching and designed to capture their attention. The different elements of your website exist to draw users into the spaces you want them to go, and this can be used to help attract sponsors and give them the ROI they want from your event. Cadmium’s eventScribe conference website is highly customizable and includes many options to help you make the event worth it for your sponsors. Let ..read more

4 Ways To Engage Members With Interactive Virtual Events In the past year, virtual events have risen in popularity, partly due to the availability of technology but largely because a global pandemic made them necessary. Your association likely has experienced this change firsthand, with many of your planned in-person events, meetings, and conferences having to pivot to virtual in order to stay on schedule and keep everyone safe. While virtual events are a convenient alternative, they also lack the face-to-face engagement opportunities that in-person ones have. With a screen in the way, the co ..read more

Meta description: Online event feedback is imperative in terms of finding out how your event performed and understanding what changes to make for your next event. https://unsplash.com/photos/smgTvepind4 Online events have been growing in popularity for a number of years now. However, the pandemic has certainly accelerated this trend. In fact, 93% of organisers have stated they plan to invest in virtual events moving forward. One thing that can be difficult about hosting an online event is that it can be difficult to gauge people’s feelings about the event. When you are face-to-face with someo ..read more

Events & Education Platform to Reduce Operational Costs, Increase Revenue, and Improve Member Retention for Content-Driven Organizations Last year organizations were forced into a sudden and uncomfortable digital transformation fueled by the realities of COVID. The lines of physical and virtual spaces are now blurred, and that’s a change that’s here to say. Jim Obsitnik, CEO of Cadmium, says, “Organizations knew this change was coming and they were already making strides toward it, but COVID was a catalyst for the acceleration of that change.” Earlier this year, Obsitnik was appointed by ..read more

Written by CadmiumCD Contributor Pamela Shigeoka Matchmaking is a hot topic right now in the events industry, and it can help your exhibitors make even better connections with attendees. What is matchmaking? It’s a personalized experience for both attendees and exhibitors. The dynamic attendee list lets you customize the exhibitor to attendee experience great way to make exhibitors happy. Exhibitors use it to qualify leads, set meetings, view attendee data, and gauge interest level in their product and/or service offering. With CadmiumCD’s matchmaking feature, exhibitors can access a dynamic ..read more

EventRebels, a Hybrid Events Software and Registration Provider, Adds New Capabilities to Cadmium's All-in-One Events & Learning Platform BALTIMORE, MD — Cadmium, a leading events and learning platform, today announced that it has acquired EventRebels, a Baltimore, Maryland-based events and registration software company primarily serving the conference and trade show markets. The acquisition underscores Cadmium’s commitment to building a unique, market-leading software platform offering continuing education, professional development, events, learning and content management solutions to as ..read more

Written by CadmiumCD Contributor Pamela Shigeoka This article is based on an earlier webinar. View the recording here. SLAS, the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, has been a CadmiumCD client for going on 10 years. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, it disrupted SLAS's events in much the same way that it did the whole events industry. They found themselves switching from in-person conferences to a virtual platform. Like other event planners, they found themselves running into a problem unique to virtual events: how to facilitate the same sort of networking and connection-makin ..read more

Written by Aubrey Moore For event planners and meeting organizers, event photography is a must— but how do you get the most out of your budget? There is no such thing as too soon when it comes to planning ahead for your next event. Photos are assets that you can leverage year after year to promote your event, generate demand for it, and ultimately drive engagement with your event content.  In this article we’ll share five key factors for staging, capturing, and sharing the most powerful moments from your event in photos:  Whether to enlist volunteers or contractors  The longta ..read more