You’ve already used your event’s social media accounts to share a few things. Now that your attendees are about to arrive, it’s important to get the conversation going and live up to their expectations. If you follow our advice for successful online communication, you’ll never run out of ideas during and after your event.

Setting up a LinkedIn group or a Twitter account for your event can be helpful. But if that isn’t followed by regular updates to enrich your profiles, you’ll probably wait in vain for your attendees to be proactive and share their experiences with you and others.
In order to benefit from using social networks, you need a detailed strategy. We’ll help you start your online channels off right and explain how they can make it easier to stay in touch with your attendees over the course of the event.

PowerPoint presentations have been the standard at scientific conferences for a long time.
Unfortunately, one thing about them is certain: They’re trivial. Among all the identical-looking slides with their titles and bullet points sometimes really exciting things get lost.
It doesn’t always have to be that way. How about putting your results and ideas in the spotlight next time? We’ll show you some tools that can help you with this.

Imagine you’re presenting your latest research findings at a conference, but instead of going according to plan, everything gets out of hand.
You can’t decipher what’s written on your slides and you get stuck while trying to read it out. Maybe the bright green cursive handwriting wasn’t the best idea after all.
At least the animated slide transitions go down well with the otherwise absent-minded audience. As soon as the next creative effect appears, all eyes are on the screen again.
Just one minute left. Hurry up now, you’re only halfway through your talk.

Lots of authors have responded to your call for papers.
That’s good news. Don’t let them be overshadowed by less pleasant ones like the fact that no one really knows anymore which papers were accepted or rejected. It’s always better when both the abstract submission and the reviewing process are well-organized.
This works best with an abstract management system and that’s why we’re now going to take you through the essentials of such a system.