"Online events and web conferences are often spin-offs or extensions of physical ones. Offline more than online, the organizations and logistics of an event require adequate resources and the ability to coordinate multiple simultaneous tracks.

If your next online conference is based on a set of physical events you may want to consider technology as a possible helping hand in creating the foundation for a well organized and supported event."

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The 'helping hand' that Kolabora editor Chris Duncan refers to here is specialized event management software that is designed to assist with the marketing, reservations and registration processes of conventional meetings.

Chris describes each of these processes in detail and concludes his article with a list of event management tools.

Read the full article here.