By Philip Masterson Most of the world is currently on a standstill, in a desperate attempt to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. Many businesses had to temporarily shut down, while others chose to adopt a work-from-home (WFH) set-up. Businesses had little time to prepare work out plans to manage tasks at…

By Norvan Martin The world of sales is undeniably fast paced and extremely aggressive. This is especially true considering the challenges of the current economic climate. With these uncertain economic conditions, sales teams must evaluate their positioning and strategize properly in order to achieve any respectable level of success. Sales…

By Tulika Nair Picture this — you’re in a conference room filled with attendees. You attend a boring introductory speech and panel discussions where speakers are more focused on listening to each other than interacting with the audience. Presentations that either confuse or don’t add anything new. Sound familiar? (Do…

If you are trying to engage a dozen or hundreds of people online AND interactively, all at once, you’re probably using virtual breakout rooms. Since that’s our specialty, we want to highlight and compare MaestroConference Video vs. Zoom breakouts. As you might have seen, we polled zoom breakout users (500+…

We recently reached out to friends and facilitators who use zoom breakouts and asked them a couple open-ended questions: What do you like/dislike about zoom breakouts? What are your biggest frustrations, what do you find lacking about them (as either a host and/or participant)? We received 100+ survey responses (and…

Which types of events have been moving to virtual environments? As soon as COVID forced the world to socially distance, every live event format that was previously being done in person pivoted (or at least attempted) to being fully virtual. Facilitators, event planners, field marketers, trainers, grassroots mobilizers and activists…

We recently reached out to friends and facilitators who use zoom breakouts and asked them a couple of open-ended questions: What do you like/dislike about zoom breakouts? What are your biggest frustrations, what do you find lacking about them (as either a host and/or participant)? We received 100+ survey responses…

By Rachel Jamie Gone are the days of office tours and meet-and-greets — in is the age of remote working, and all the things that used to go into onboarding have moved to the virtual space as well. And as anyone who’s ever onboarded a new employee knows, this doesn’t…

[Editor’s Note: this article was originally posted on MaestroConference regarding our new video breakout capabilities.] Trusted by over 15,000 thought leaders, MaestroConference is the leading technology for highly interactive virtual events. Since 2009, our suite of powerful engagement features and robust video breakout capabilities has helped brands, organizations and entrepreneurs…