Virtual Unconferences + Why They Are More Engaging for Attendees
Video Conferencing | Virtual Collaboration | Virtual Event | VoiceVoice | Web Conferencing

Virtual Unconferences + Why They Are More Engaging for Attendees

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 you even remember when we attended conferences in-person?!?) If you…

Meet Guided Breakouts: Comparing MaestroConference Video Vs. Zoom
amazing conversations | Company Updates | How We Work | New Features | Video Conferencing

Meet Guided Breakouts: Comparing MaestroConference Video Vs. Zoom

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+ people responded, 200+ surveys submitted…

Virtual Onboarding: 5 Tips for Onboarding New Employees in the #NewNormal
General | Video Conferencing | Virtual Collaboration | Virtual Event | Virtual Training | Web Conferencing | Work From Home

Virtual Onboarding: 5 Tips for Onboarding New Employees in the #NewNormal

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 make things any easier. First-day jitters, social anxiety,…

How to Improve Remote Collaboration in Distributed Teams
Collaboration | Collaboration Tools | Team Work | Virtual Collaboration

How to Improve Remote Collaboration in Distributed Teams

Promoting remote collaboration among off-site team members can be a difficult task. Outside factors and company issues can quickly hurt your employees’ productivity. Over a prolonged period, this loss could even cause a notable change in absenteeism, turnover rates, and profitability for your company. This is especially problematic in the current environment, with so many…

How to Increase Participation + Reach for Virtual Events
Event Planning | Video Conferencing | Virtual Event | VoiceVoice

How to Increase Participation + Reach for Virtual Events

Virtual events were infrequent before the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the world. Now, they’re everywhere. This transition has been hard for some businesses. Trying to engage participants virtually is not the same as it was with in-person events. Luckily, a virtual event can have the same excitement and reach as the ones before the coronavirus —…

How We Continued to Enable a “Collective Awakening” in 2017
amazing conversations | Company Updates | Equity Crowdfunding | New Features | VoiceVoice

How We Continued to Enable a “Collective Awakening” in 2017

Every week, I read the comments people leave for us after they’ve participated in an event on our platform. Albeit a good use of time, this exercise has proven to be a rollercoaster of emotion as I get to read the great, good, not so good, and on occasion, vicious comments left by participants (notes…