In just over nine months, Zoom has gone from a convenient videoconferencing tool into a household brand name. As business travel, events, and offices around the globe shut down rapidly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom’s suite of videoconferencing functions have provided an essential lifeline that have allowed everyone from educators to CEOs to late-night […]
Amid a global pandemic that has left planet earth virtually event-less, 2020 has been a year unlike no other. In many cases, it’s been months since company staff have seen each other in-person, inside or outside of the office. The pandemic has made team building difficult to say the least. This holiday season offers a […]
Having to prove that you’ve been vaccinated against a devastating global virus in order to get on an airplane or attend a concert may seem like a scene out of a bad B-list movie. In our unfortunate reality, as COVID-19 crisscrosses the planet leaving carnage in its wake, the concept of having to show an […]
What’s The Best Way To Sell Tickets To A Zoom Meeting? Over the past few months, individuals and businesses have done a remarkable job of adapting their normal meetings and routine conference calls to a Zoom-dominated setting. As COVID-19 has forced industries of all types to adapt, the reliance on Zoom meetings continues to expand […]
As the country (and the world) moves to cautiously reopen, many institutions that intrinsically bring people together are looking for guidance on how to do so as safely as possible — in a limited, phased approach. While the U.S. CDC has offered detailed guides and opening + operating protocols for some organizations (e.g. colleges, summer […]
Due to the COVID19 pandemic, we are living in a world of unprecedented uncertainty. While all aspects of normal life have been upended and impacted, in a world where social distancing is the norm, event planning has been disrupted even more than many industries. Social events and life celebrations across the globe are being canceled […]
By late January, few event professionals were attune to increasingly dire mainstream media reports of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19). By mid-February, RSVPify had begun fielding a trickle of support requests surrounding virus-related event cancelations from Asia-Pacific and European event hotspots. In the coming days and weeks, that trickle of event cancelations became a steady pour, […]
What the event industry is doing now to deal with the impact of COVID-19 Obviously, for the coming weeks (and perhaps months), events of all types will be on hiatus as citizens are asked to shelter in place and gatherings of more than ten individuals are prohibited or at least, strongly discouraged. While this puts […]
What do event management companies and event planners do now? A few weeks ago, we published a blog post that broke down some of the challenges the event industry was facing as the coronavirus threat had just begun to be realized beyond China. At the time, the full impact on not only the event industry, […]
The coronavirus threatens to take a toll on event management industry in 2020 as the infectious disease continues its global spread and spurns the cancelation thousands of major events.
