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My First ASAE: Session Standouts and Personal Takeaways
My name is Julie. You may have seen some of my posts on the CommPartners blog over the past few months. I am the Content Production Specialist here at CommPartners. This August, I was able to attend my first ASAE Conference, and while this may have been my first ASAE,...
2020 PEAK Virtual Bootcamp: Your FOMO Cure!
This year, PEAK took the shape of a Virtual Bootcamp, an afternoon of rewarding sessions featuring the expertise of the CommPartners team and covering a topic that is top of mind: Virtual Conferencing. While we specialize in eLearning and managed online events, we do...
Why Your Organization Needs an LMS
A Learning Management System, or LMS, is software designed for online training, tracking, and reporting that supports content creation and storage for continued learning. An LMS provides your organization or association an opportunity to create a learning community on...
Attend 2020 PEAK Virtual Bootcamp
The days of cramming into large convention halls are out of sight, and integrating eLearning into education strategies is the future. Backed by a team of specialists ready to go the extra mile, CommPartners has been helping organizations do just that while creating...
Pivoting In-Person to Virtual: Event Logistics to Keep
This is a guest post written by Jordan Schwartz, president, and co-founder of Pathable, an event app and website platform for conferences and tradeshows. He left academic psychology for the lure of software building and spent 10 years at Microsoft leading the...
Create Community at Your Virtual Conference with Higher Logic
Learning at conferences can happen in two ways: peer-to-peer and from subject matter experts. Often, what initially attracts us to a conference are the impressive keynote speakers or interesting sessions that contribute to our professional development. Subject matter...
Scrolling the Virtual Exhibit Halls
As you transition your on-site event to a Virtual Conference, it is important to consider how you will include the sponsors and other revenue opportunities your organization was counting on while providing a resource center for attendees. In a previous post, we...
Eyeballs Not Zzz: Keeping Virtual Learners Engaged
Keeping your learners attention during a Virtual Conference or a Webinar can be a challenge. You had an awesome, 3-day conference planned with all these great activities to make your event interactive, but now you’re forced to go virtual. Attendees who were once going...
CP Cares: Adapting to Change with Camp No Limits
CommPartners is very proud to assist the No Limits Foundation in transitioning their Camp No Limits into a virtual experience. Camp No Limits aims to provide education, mentorship, and support to children with limb loss and differences and their families. This camp...
7 Things to Prepare For Your Virtual Conference Kick-Off Meeting
One of the first steps in hosting a Virtual Conference with CommPartners is to meet with a Project Manager for a kick-off call. You likely went over some details during the sales call, but now will you dive more in-depth with your producer to take your conference to...
SOPHE: COVID-19 Transition Case Study
The COVID-19 pandemic caused the event industry to go into a tail-spin. Organizations all over the world were forced to cancel and postpone their events. The Society of Public Health Education, SOPHE, did not want to miss out on the many positive opportunities a...
Pair Your Virtual Conference with an LMS
The reality of transitioning to a Virtual Conference can be as simple or complex as planning a traditional on-site event, depending on the needs of your organization. As CommPartners sees inquiries come in for Virtual Conferences, one question we hear often is, “is an...
Monetizing Your Virtual Conference
Going virtual doesn’t mean that you lose everything that an on-site event has! A lot of what you had planned for your on-site event can still occur online, it just may look a little differently. Here are six ways you can maximize sponsorships and attendee revenue in a...
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Take Your Town Hall Virtual
Jon Corun, Director of Multimedia Production at CommPartners, is no stranger to finding creative solutions to technology roadblocks. So when COVID-19 presented a new challenge for the multimedia team to produce Town Halls for clients, Jon went to work to find a way to...
Going Virtual with Kate On-Demand Here!
Going Virtual with Kate is a weekly chat on Facebook Live with CommPartners' Kate Ratcliffe. Kate discusses popular topics, answers questions, and shares ideas about all things virtual events during this time when many organizations are going virtual with their...
6 steps for marketing your livestream!
Livestreaming is an exciting move for your organization and an opportunity to reach even more people. While you may feel energized about this change, your attendees may be cautious and apprehensive. Follow these 6 steps to market your new jump into...
Planning Your Next Conference: 4 Things Attendees Want
Conference planners are always working hard to anticipate their attendees’ needs. Read our guide for the top things guests want and raise event attendance!
Peak User Group Conference 2020:
Hit eLearning Out of the Park!
CommPartners’ Peak User Group Conference started in 2018. After meeting clients face-to-face, and receiving positive feedback from participants, we knew this was something we wanted to repeat. So, we created a biennial, in-person learning and networking event that...