Event Tips

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Virtual Corporate Holiday Party Ideas

 

This is Yvonne Lowe's Hack for a Virtual Corporate Holiday Party.

Party Theme: Peace, Joy, Love

 

Kick off the event with the Peace portion. In this part, have a LIVE message from your company's CEO. I suggest a fireside chat with the head of your HR department. Make it personal by doing the fireside interview at your CEO's home using Covid protocols. Have employees to send questions in that they would like to have answered. If having the interview at the CEO's home is not an option, have it at a studio. You can then livestream into the event a personal message from your CEO or the fireside chat interview. I do not recommend a recorded video for this portion, make it LIVE.

This will help your employees to have peace-of-mind wrapping up 2020 and moving into 2021.

 

                                           

From the PEACE portion of the event, you then...

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New Virtual Meeting Technology

Per BizBash, "Convene at 530 Fifth Avenue is a premium meeting/event space in Midtown East within walking distance of Grand Central Station. This location features four floors of on-demand meeting spaces and a fitness center. Convene is perfect for conferences, town halls, trainings, or board meetings."

There are a lot of meeting software in the market, and like every technology, some are better than others. So, who would have thought that an in-person meeting space organization would get into the market of creating a virtual platform for meetings, but this they did.

BizBash describes this new event meeting Technology this way, "Think on-demand human support, hospitality-driven virtual offerings, customizable event websites, and more."

 "We want to support our meeting planner clients during this time by creating a premium, hospitality-based digital meeting and event experience," says CEO and co-founder Ryan Simonetti. "

Read more about this new meeting technology...

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Yvonne Speaks

Yvonne is proud to announce that she spoke at her alma mater, University of Maryland, College Park on September 20, 2020.

This event was for the the John H. Smith School of Business, Smith Leadership Conference (SLC).

Her topic was "Planning Successful In-person and Virtual Events" using her 6 C’s Event Success Flow© formula.

Yvonne Lowe is an experienced speaker, and Certified Event Professional who has been teaching and speaking on event planning and fundraising topics for over 5 years. She is available to speak at your Human Resources, Administrative and Event Conferences.

Hire Yvonne for you next speaking engagement.

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Save-the-Date: Webinar on How to Calculate Virtual Events ROI

 

Y. Lowe Signature Events, LLC launches webinar and virtual networking series to aid business recovery from COVID-19.

On July 29th, Yvonne is launching her webinar teaching series on virtual events.

In July, she will show you how to calculate your Virtual Event ROI. A simple Return on Investment (ROI) is calculated:

ROI = Profits    
          Expenses

Then, if you time (x) 100, this will give you your percentage.

In this webinar, Yvonne will delve deeper by looking at certain metrics that you should consider when calculating your virtual event ROI. This will give a better picture of the success of your virtual event.

If you stay until the end of the webinar, you will receive a GIFT from Yvonne. If you register and do not attend the event, you will get the webinar recording, but not the GIFT.

Registration opening soon!
                            

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Save-the-Date: Virtual Small Bizness Networking Happy Hour

 

Y. Lowe Signature Events, LLC launches webinar and virtual networking series to aid business recovery from COVID-19.

 Y. Lowe Signature Events of Central Florida is partnering with DC-MD Small Business Networking group to host a monthly "Virtual Small Bizness Networking Happy Hour."

Yvonne Lowe and Master Networker, Evette Lewis will be hosting these monthly events. We will have an in-house DJ, Education & Entertainment (Edutainment), small breakout networking groups, and door prizes. All for FREE! Join us with your favorite drink.

As always, we like to network with a purpose. Each month, we will feature a local nonprofit or cause that you are encouraged to support financially for that entire month.

This monthly networking event is geared towards small business owners and business professionals in the Washington, DC metro and Central Florida areas. More information coming soon regarding our Keynote Speaker, featured entertainer, and more.

Registration opening soon!

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Getting Sponsorships for Virtual Events

 
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Virtual Family Reunions

 

This is the last video of my 7-part video series on virtual events. In this video, I hack a Virtual Family Reunion. I produced a 3-day family reunion for my audience-on the spot.

Video #1: Postpone, cancel or convert to virtual events

Video #2: Bring the Magic to your virtual conference & exhibits

Video #3: How to reimagine your incentive trips

Video #4: How to convert to virtual meetings & trainings responsibly

Video #5: Virtual team building activities

Video #6: Virtual Fundraising Ideas

If you would like to watch any of my past videos, you can do so in this blog.

If you have any questions regarding virtual events or need help planning your virtual events, please contact me.

 

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Virtual Fundraising Ideas!

 

This is video #6 of my 7-part video series on virtual events. In this video I discuss 6 virtual fundraising ideas.

Video #1: Postpone, cancel or convert to virtual events
Video#2: Bring the Magic to your virtual conference & exhibits
Video #3: How to reimagine your incentive trips
Video#4: How to convert to virtual meetings & trainings responsibly
Video#5: Virtual team building activities

If you would like to watch any of my past videos, you can do so on here.

If you have any questions regarding virtual events or need help planning your virtual events, please contact me.

 

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A Black Mother's Thoughts on Racism and Reconciliation

racism reconciliation Jun 19, 2020
 

As a mother, daughter, sister and aunt, I'm hurting in so many ways. I'm simply scared for my family and other blacks in this country.

This is MY story of racism and about how to heal and move forward.

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Vlog: Virtual Team Building Activities

 
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