A conference moderator makes for a smoother meeting

A trained, experienced conference moderator can provide a private conference to help make sure your critical meeting runs exactly as you need it to Webinars and conference calls are such a staple of our daily work experience, we almost take them for granted. For most of them, the stakes aren’t particularly high, and if we […]

Managing remote meetings isn’t in your job description

Wouldn’t the hours you now have to spend trying to plan, manage and host remote meetings be better invested actually doing your primary job? One thing we know here at Intellor from two decades of planning, hosting and recording complex virtual meetings of all types: conferencing can get complicated, awfully quick. “I was never trained […]

Eliminate late starts for critical virtual meetings

“OK we’re going to get started here soon… bear with us, we’re having some technical difficulties.” How many times have you heard some derivative of those words at the beginning of a virtual meeting in the past year and a half? No one would argue that conferencing technology has been a crucial tool to keep […]

Crisis communications in a virtual work environment

We continue to live through challenging times, with the COVID outbreak possibly surging again, controversies over vaccines, and a deep sense of displacement among most of the American workforce. Organizations continue to struggle with being able to communicate effectively with employees, stakeholders, customers and investors during these times of crisis. Tools and services that enable […]

No substitute for experience in virtual event management

There’s been a frenzy of new funding and virtual meeting start-ups to address issues uncovered in the changing world of online organizational communications. Meanwhile, Intellor continues to do what we’ve been doing since 2000: provide personal, end-to-end managed conferencing services for those critical, “can’t fail” meetings and events. Over on the Smart Meetings web site, […]

High time to eliminate hold times

Why would an organization rely on a switchboard to connect high-profile callers to a high stakes call in 2021? Investor relations and media relations professionals are modernizing their communications with web broadcasts, live video, and more. And yet their telephone callers are still stuck at the switchboard. Yes, the analysts, investors and media choosing to […]

Making the most of hybrid work events (Part 1)

Now more than ever, producing engaging and impactful hybrid events – conferences and meetings with in-person and remote attendees – should be a high priority within the context of your organizational communication strategy. Hybrid work events have become critical in terms of retaining cohesive teams and exchanging information on a global scale. Because many people […]

Getting the All Hands conference call exactly right

For enterprise organizations and NPOs, there are some conference events that are simply too important to get wrong. When failure simply isn’t an option, you need Intellor. All Hands conference calls require professional presentation, regardless of how many participants, technologies, countries or audiences may be involved. It’s a moment when messages need to be delivered […]

“We’re live in five minutes”: the value of an event producer

When conferencing event technology isn’t playing nicely minutes before an important live virtual training session is set to begin, that’s when having an experienced Event Producer really matters. Recently I witnessed an incident during a live video conferencing event, and it really served to highlight how challenging it can be for presenters when unexpected technical […]

When DIY web conferencing becomes a liability

With a variety of popular web and video conferencing applications now in widespread use for most companies and organizations, the notion that all meetings and events can now be handled internally is an easy assumption to make. And 90% of the time, that’s likely true. Regularly-scheduled internal meetings, brainstorming sessions, training classes and events that […]