Last week my friends Lindsay Rosenthal and Liz King over at Event Alley, asked me to share a few tips for saving money on AV with their event planning listeners. 

Miguel Neves could be said to embody a breed of meeting professional perfectly suited to the 2013 industry landscape.

Now I know that things are moving fast these days and we are all very busy, but have you stopped to ponder the tenor of the times in which we live and how it relates to event professionals?

The combination of live online communication with streaming via the Internet has provided event organizers with a great way to extend their audience reach and contain travel costs. But do you really need a semi-truck load of technical tools to ensure a quality hybrid event experience? Absolutetly not.

Brandt Krueger can make audio visual seem interesting, easy to understand and almost fun.

These are pivotal times for event professionals.

For organizations that are spread over many locations but want to generate a feeling of camaraderie and connection while updating all team members, the new & improved video conference has been a godsend.

In the past, the expense of face to face conferences limited such meetings to once or twice a year. But many organizations are choosing to meet more often thanks to advances in virtual meeting technology. Some organizations are taking their video conferences to new levels.

The multinational internet corporation eBay needed to find a way for 14 offices in 13 different European countries to interact with leaders via video on a regular basis so they created the European Team Brief (ETB). You can read more about it in this MPI Case Study here.

As a member of the research team that produced the eBay case study, I was impressed with how effective the ETB was at generating enthusiasm among attendees.

Imagine a beautiful car with no wheels, or a gorgeous home with no doors or windows and you have an idea of the effectiveness of a quality blog with no social media interaction to support it.

The following is a guest blog article by Lindsay Fultz. If you are interested in guest blogging for Sound n' Sight, please read my guest blogging guidelines. And if you have any thoughts, please comment. Lindsay and I both would love to hear what you have to say!

The Twitter community for event professionals known as #eventprofs has given birth to a BlogTalkRadio show hosted by Lindsey Rosenthal of Events for Good and Liz King of Liz King Events.