A major travel management company recently lost a significant piece of business because they did not offer a comprehensive Virtual Meetings service offering. Sure, they said that they provide ad hoc virtual meetings as clients request them but the RFP failed to articulate their ability to provide a full service virtual meetings team. What is a virtual meeting and why is a team needed?
A virtual meeting or event provides for live or archived communications among small to large, local to global attendees by the use of technology. A virtual Meetings and Events team provides support to those meetings/events that are not self-service.
A Virtual Meetings and Events (VME) Meeting Planner has at least 20 different responsibilities for the virtual meetings that surge into the Virtual Meetings team. What are these roles and how do they differ from the typical IT role?
Download Virtual Meetings and Events - Roles and Responsibilities 9 Jan 2011
For 20 reasons to use Virtual Meetings, refer to this post from 19 March 2010.
Don't forget to track your Virtual Meetings using your Meeting Management Technology!
If you have any questions or need assistance with anything mentioned above, please contact me as I was the first Meetings Leader to combine Virtual Meetings in the same team as face-to-face meetings and since, have helped numerous clients move towards Virtual Meetings. Good luck to you!
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