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. 

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.

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. 

As a marketer my people often think of ourselves as the most important aspect of any business activity. After all, who else is bringing in all of the business?

The following is a guest blog article by Tim Kern. 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. Tim and I both would love to hear what you have to say!

Want more satisfaction, wow experiences and breakthrough collaborative moments at your events? Then create the ideal circumstances for the production of oxytocin in your attendees.

Hashtags, words or phrases preceded by the symbol "#", have been a boon to event planners as a simple tool for following and organizing online discussions around events. They provide a portal through which attendees can easily access media related to the event and a way for them to network online.

Almost as soon as event organizers began to see the value of using hashtags to organize tweets related to an event, applications began to pop up to make the information sharing more user-friendly. Thus, we've seen Twitterfalls, hashtag archivers and tweet curation platforms with varying degrees of adoption by event professionals.

Have you considered your face to face event objectives in light of the growing popularity of remote attendance and virtual events? More and more it seems that events that have done this are achieving success and getting rave reviews.