MaestroConference Video was created for virtual meeting hosts who want to give their participants the chance to share their voice, connect with others, accelerate learning, and collaborate by leveraging video breakouts + deep, online engagement tools. We’ve been building the platform to address the limitations that we’ve heard from facilitators when it comes to other…
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…
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…
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 counting- folks are still sharing their input if…
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, educators- every role, industry, profession, community-…
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,…