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BYOD — Tech Tips to Prep for Your Next Meeting.

Where would we be without technology? Probably working more, accomplishing less, and feeling incredibly frustrated. But with each passing year, technology advances and creates wonderful, time-saving new ways to help us get organized, efficiently run a meeting, and help our attendees engage more effectively in an event. As you look at the year ahead, you should consider some of the following to help you with your next meeting or event:

Make sure it’s mobile

For better or worse, the presence of mobile phones in our society is ubiquitous. Therefore, whatever app, website, or download you utilize in your meeting, you need to be certain that it’s optimized for mobile use. If your audience can’t view it or download it onto their phones, you might just lose them.

Share, share, share

The challenge of engaging your audience and turning them into active participants rather than passive spectators can be addressed with some pretty impressive apps, such as Meerkat or Periscope. These interactive programs offer your attendees the ability to live stream video that can be shared among users and posted to social media.

Just like being there

Site visits to potential meeting venues can prove time consuming and expensive. However, with a tool like Georama, it doesn’t have to be either. One of the company’s guides will visit a venue and give a planner a customized tour in real time with two-way audio. This allows the planner to submit questions or ask for a closer or second look at something.

Be seated

Guest list app, Zkipster, now offers a new feature that allows planners to design and collaborate on seating charts in real time using floor plans from a multitude of venues. The only thing better than using all the latest technology is imagining what will come next.

Kris McNeely, Content Editor | meetingpages | kris.meetingpages@gmail.com

As a freelance editor and writer for more than twenty years, Kris McNeely has had the opportunity to write and edit everything from non-fiction books to blog posts, web content to white papers, ads to articles. She was named an Erma Bombeck Humor Writer of the Month, has been featured in multiple anthologies, and was selected by Amtrak Railway Service as one of five travel writers from among a pool of 1500 applicants nationwide. In her free time, she likes to jog, garden, travel, and spend time with her two kids and three grandchildren.