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05/23/2018

Planning a sales meeting?

Be sure to check out our report at http://live-spark.com/SalesBrain/

05/15/2018

The Pineapple Effect: Increasing Event Engagement in an Unconventional Way

This post isn't about some way that serving pineapple at your event can magically increase audience engagement. It'd be fantastic if a foo...

03/06/2018

5 Ways to Herd Your Sheep (Aka: Getting your audience back on time)

Are your event start times accurate, or merely aspirational? We hear, often, that clients have consistent issues getting their events ...

09/25/2017

20 years ago Live Spark did one of the first examples of for at a .

Since that time, the technology has progressed immensely, but the idea is still novel, fresh, and has the same engaging effect. Watch this cable executive get "Tooned Up"--an experience he was able to take home to his family (Then: VHS tape, Now: Digital sharing on social media).

Toon Disney was just launching its cable station and wanted to expose the trade show attendees to their channel. With so many attendees and typical trade show distractions,…

08/23/2017

You can manipulate your audience's perception of your information by manipulating your multiple choice questions.

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/08/manipulating-multiple-choice-questions.html

When making game show questions for a game show in a large event, many of our clients don't think much about the effect of the question in...

07/24/2017

How do you make an amazing workshop experience with Intel, Microsoft, and HP? Allow Live Spark to show you how we did it. https://vimeo.com/195025063

Excerpts of an AniMate and Game created for a 90-minute training. Since the focus of the training was security, we brought the "Anonymous Mask" to life…

03/21/2017

Event producers give unreasonable deadlines! Presenters never meet deadlines at all! It's time for: Producers vs. Presenters: Taming the Presentation Deadline Beast

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/03/producers-vs-presenters-taming.html

There is an eternal struggle between the event production team and the presenters (internal and, less frequently, external) to get present...

02/28/2017

"And the Oscar Goes To....": What we can learn from the 2017 Oscars big screw-up.

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/02/and-oscar-goes-to-what-we-can-learn.html

It was a moment in which--I guarantee you--every event producer, or person working with live events, gasped and muttered some version of "...

02/21/2017

The advantages of using your own internal emcee vs. hiring a professional.

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-advantages-of-diy-emceeing.html

Last entry we talked about the advantages a professional external emcee has over an internal emcee. ( How to Emcee Your Event Like a Pro...