March 2011 Blog Posts (8)

What are these organizations thinking?  Maritz and Cornell published ‘The Future of Meetings: The Case for Face-to-Face’ in which they pitted virtual against face-to-face.  OK at least Cornell’s Center for Hospitality Research was likely paid to participate in this study but Maritz really? (Update: VEI will be talking to Maritz's Chris Gaia VP of Marketing soon so follow the thread!)

Granted the study was released back in September of 2010 but…

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Slideshare, the company that made slide sharing a social affair, recently announced the introduction of Zipcast. The idea behind Zipcast (not to be confused with the…

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NOTE: This "draft" was not supposed to escape incomplete as it did. Chalk it up to amateur hour and the wedding my wife and I are producing this weekend. Anyway, I've filled in a few blanks, and, I hope, stimulated some discussion.)

A few days ago, Dennis Shiao (@dshiao) tweeted about tracking 2011 hybrid events on a…

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Nearly two months after Virtual Edge Summit 2011 (VES 11) concluded in Las Vegas, I’m astonished by the level of activity that was achieved by participants at the conference in person and virtually. We’re currently reviewing the survey responses (thanks to all who participated) and look forward to sharing our progress toward the 2012 summit.



So where were we?



Briefly, since 2008, the virtual events… Continue

ON24, a webcasting and virtual events company, recently released a new white paper titled “ON24 2010 Webcasting Report: Webcast Benchmarks and Best Practices for Lead Generation.” According to the report, the company evaluated 10,000 webcasts used by 700 corporate clients for demand generation. While the report looks at individual webcast stats, it does provide insights for those incorporating… Continue

With North Africa in a state of contagious revolutions the impact on the world’s oil supply is at the least bad and possibly much worse. Prices are almost at $100 per barrel again and the oil used to make jet fuel is over $112 already. At a Green Meeting conference this week, airline industry analysts predicted that over 40% of airlines would go out of business by 2015 if…

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We’ve known for some time that InterCall was actively looking for an acquisition of a virtual event platform, correct that, virtual environment platform to add to its Stream57 event streaming and webcasting business which it acquired last year. It’s no surprise that it chose Unisfair as it is a great platform and it’s been rumored that their VCs have been looking for an exit opportunity. Plus, both companies have a great culture with dedicated people who are focused on seeing their…

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