{"id":7434,"date":"2021-04-12T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T07:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.customgear.com.au\/blog\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2021-04-20T12:07:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T02:07:19","slug":"are-online-conferences-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/are-online-conferences-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Online Conferences Here to Stay?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may not like them, but they\u2019re absolutely essential in today\u2019s socially distanced world. Depending on how tech-savvy and social you are, you may be begging for the death of the online conference.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get your hopes up.<\/p>\n

Online conferences are far from guaranteed to fade away after the coronavirus is subdued. They have a couple of advantages over the traditional in-person meeting, which may find them hanging on long after this is all blown over.<\/p>\n

Read on to find out what advantages online conferences have that make them likely to stick around after the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re Quick and Easy\"\"<\/h2>\n

In-person conferences are a lot. You\u2019ve got to block off time not only to go to the conference but also to get to where it\u2019s being held and get back home or to your office.<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re discussing how to sell your merchandise, push your logoed bags, or otherwise promote your brand, you\u2019ll want lots of time to do it. And in-person conferences take up a good chunk of that time.<\/p>\n

The online meeting cuts out those transit times and lets employees transfer seamlessly between work and meetings.<\/p>\n

The \u201cIt Could Have Been an Email\u201d Paradigm<\/h2>\n

You\u2019ve probably heard your employees complain about meetings and conferences. Most likely, they\u2019ve said something like, \u201cIt could have been an email.\u201d<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re trying to run a business, you want quick, effective strategies for developing an efficient workflow. You can\u2019t promote logoed merchandise<\/a> if you\u2019re using all your time on useless conferences.<\/p>\n

Online meetings are quick and (almost) painless and likely to improve company morale by respecting your employees\u2019 valuable time. Like it or not, the online conference is just a good way to economise your time and get your message out without bugging your workers.<\/p>\n

They Require Less Materials\"\"<\/h2>\n

In an online meeting, you can display information to many people in a seamless and efficient way that we just haven\u2019t had before.<\/p>\n

Think of it this way. You\u2019ve got a graph for sales on your logoed merchandise and want everyone to be looking at the same place on it at the same time.<\/p>\n

You could lower a projector, distribute paper versions of the graphs, and use a laser pointer to point out what you want your employees to see. Or, you could just share your screen. Which seems more efficient and less time-consuming?<\/p>\n

You Can Attend Them No Matter What<\/h2>\n

You know the feeling- you\u2019ve spent all this time looking at your employees\u2019 schedules to block off a time for everyone, and when you finally get to the conference room- only one or two of them are there.<\/p>\n

Frustrated, you check your email. What you get is a long list of excuses ranging from sick kids to sick adults to electricians\u2019 appointments.<\/p>\n

Sick, home-stuck, or waiting for an appointment, you can attend an online conference no matter what the circumstances. It\u2019s much harder to come up with an excuse to duck out on a convenient online meeting than it is to skip an in-person conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may not like them, but they\u2019re absolutely essential in today\u2019s socially distanced world. Depending on how tech-savvy and social you are, you may be begging for the death of the online conference. Don\u2019t get your hopes up. Online conferences are far from guaranteed to fade away after the coronavirus…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7436,"href":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customgear.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}