🤯I didn't even know this was possible in a virtual meeting

The latest news from StreamAlive and the world of online, offline, and hybrid live events.

Hi there! In this week’s newsletter:

• I didn’t know you could do that in a virtual meeting!

• NEW! Shareable images of your audience interactions

• What we’ve been reading…

🙌I didn’t know that was possible!

Yesterday I was speaking to Said Saddouk about his upcoming #StreamAliveShowcase workshop on creating interactive events.

(There’s still time to save your seat for this event here.)

I logged into the Zoom meeting and stopped dead in my tracks.

He had StreamAlive’s Magic Maps interaction as an overlay on the wall behind him.

Said looked quite smug. “Pretty cool, huh?” he said, stating the obvious!

Hell, yeah! What an amazing way to show off audience interactions without using traditional slides.

Then he said, “watch this!”

And he did something with Magic Maps that I didn’t even know was possible.

I don’t think even our CEO knows what Said did was possible.

This is such a small moment in a longer session, but with moments like this sprinkled throughout your event, you can hold people’s attention 🧲, even when they have a million distractions around them.

You see, for Said, creating virtual meetings that don’t feel like meetings is what he specializes in.

He uses tools and technology to achieve small ‘wow’ moments in meetings that keep people hooked 🪝 and engaged 👀 throughout the session.

To achieve these wow moments and capture the virtual audience’s attention, Said uses Zoom, OBS Studio, StreamDeck, and StreamAlive, among many other tools.

OBS Studio is fast becoming an essential tool in the meeting facilitator’s toolbox

On May 29th, he’s hosting a workshop showing you how to use tools like this to create interactive virtual meetings with small ‘wow’ moments where your attendees forget they are in a virtual meeting.

Whether you're running workshops, training sessions, or regular team meetings, this session will introduce you to innovative tools like OBS Studio, StreamDeck and StreamAlive, ensuring your events are productive, but also fun and memorable.

Registration is free, but seats are limited so save your seat today.

We also have some more exciting #StreamAliveShowcase events coming up and we’d love to have you join us for them as well!

• Jun 6: We have Jessie Paul, author of No Money Marketing, coming to teach us how any brand can compete against companies with big marketing budgets, even when you have a shoestring budget.

• June 19: Neela Saldanha has dedicated her life to understanding human behavior and deciphering what makes us tick. She’ll be sharing her discoveries with us at her event.

• Jul 2: How can design systems improve your productivity? That’s the question Manish Agarwal will be answering in his session.

• July 17: Tatiana Rodriguez is going to teach us how to conquer your virtual stage fright, perfect if your palms are sweaty and your throat goes dry before speaking to a virtual audience.

Save your seat to all of these events today!

Share your StreamAlive polls, word clouds and other interactions on social media

We’ve just added a super-easy way for you to share your post-event polls, word clouds, and other audience interactions that you created using StreamAlive.

Just navigate to one of your post-session reports and you’ll find a new menu called Shareable Images.

You can instantly share to LinkedIn and Facebook (other social networks will be added soon!), or download the image if you want to share it elsewhere.

Shareable images are available for all your past live sessions. Just click the ‘Email Reports’ button and your images will be generated for you.

What we’ve been reading

We’ve covered some weird and wonderful livestreams in our newsletters over the last couple of years.

Who can forget the fabulous fish doorbell livestream?

But this live stream might be for people who think watching paint dry is a bit too high energy for them.

The pitch drop experiment was created in 1927 to demonstrate the surprising qualities of pitch—the thickest known fluid.

In the 87 years since the experiment has been active, only nine drops of pitch have dropped out of the funnel.

The last drop was in 2014.

They expect the tenth drop to happen some time in the next six years.

For those who want to say “I was there!” when the drop happens, the University of Queensland has set up a livestream of the experiment.

Catch us on our social pages

If you haven’t already, check out our social media pages to stay updated on our quirky takes on the latest social media trends and the occasional piece of engagement-related advice.

All the best,

Peter and the StreamAlive team