Networking skills — page 43
Conversation openers, exits, follow-ups and the social mechanics of meeting the right people at events.
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Why Explainable AI Matters in Event Matchmaking
Explainable AI can turn event matchmaking from a mysterious ranking system into a useful networking guide. This article explores how transparent recommendations help attendees understand why someone is relevant, build trust in AI-assisted networking, protect user agency, and create more meaningful professional connections.
How Mutual-Value Event Matching Works: A Practical Guide to Better Event Networking
How mutual-value event matching uses attendee intent, professional context, event goals, shared interests, and reciprocal relevance to recommend the people who are most worth meeting—without turning networking into an open attendee directory.
How to Understand What Attendees Want Before an Event
A practical guide to understanding attendee expectations before an event using registration data, pre-event surveys, segmentation, behavioural signals, and networking intent—so organisers can make better decisions about content, communication, logistics, and meaningful connections.
What Is Networking Intent in Event Technology? A Complete Guide
Learn what networking intent means in event technology, how intent-based networking improves attendee connections, and how event platforms use participant goals to create more meaningful professional interactions.
How to Co-Host and Manage an Event With a Team: A Practical Playbook
Learn how to co-host and manage an event with a team using clear ownership, practical workflows, shared communication, registration, check-in, networking, and post-event follow-up. This guide gives event organizers a repeatable framework for coordinating people before, during, and after an event without creating unnecessary operational complexity.
What Is an Automated Meeting Recap? A Complete Guide
Learn what an automated meeting recap is, how AI-powered summaries work, their benefits, use cases, best practices, and how event teams can improve follow-up and networking workflows.
Why Events, Meetings and Chat Should Live in One Platform
Events, meetings and chat create more value when registration context, networking intent, conversations and follow-up stay connected. This guide explains the operational, attendee-experience and privacy benefits of a unified platform, what to evaluate, and where MeetWho fits for meaningful event networking.
How to Use Screen Sharing Effectively During Online Events
Learn how to use screen sharing effectively during online events, from preparing your desktop and choosing what to share to protecting privacy, keeping attendees engaged, handling technical issues, and transitioning from presentations into meaningful networking.
How to Create One-Click Meeting Rooms for Event Attendees
Learn how to create a low-friction meeting-room experience for event attendees, from registration and access control to reminders, privacy, networking, and post-event follow-up. This guide explains how organizers can make joining easier without sacrificing attendee security or event quality.
What Is an Online Meeting Room? Definition, Features, and How It Works
What is an online meeting room, and how does it differ from a webinar or virtual event platform? This guide explains how online meeting rooms work, their core features, common use cases, security considerations, and how registration, participant management, and networking fit around virtual meetings and events.
Why Post-Event Community Chat Matters for Event Networking
Why post-event community chat matters goes beyond keeping a conversation alive. A well-designed post-event space helps attendees turn introductions into relevant follow-ups, maintain context, build professional relationships, and create lasting value from an event—without reducing networking to an endless group chat.
Event Chat Moderation: Best Practices for Organizers
Event chat moderation keeps live conversations useful, safe, and on-topic. This guide gives organizers a practical framework for setting chat rules, assigning moderators, handling spam and harassment, escalating incidents, protecting attendee privacy, and reviewing moderation performance after an event.
How to Manage Community Chat Before and After an Event
Learn how to manage community chat before and after an event, from setting expectations and driving useful pre-event conversations to moderating discussions, encouraging meaningful networking, and sustaining connections after the event ends.
How to Create a Group Chat for an Event: A Practical Guide
Learn how to create an event group chat that keeps attendees informed without turning into noise. This guide covers platform choice, setup, invitations, permissions, privacy, moderation, message planning, and when a dedicated event platform such as MeetWho is a better fit for registration, check-in, announcements, and meaningful networking.
What Is an Event Subscription System? How It Works and What to Look For
What is an event subscription system, and how is it different from event registration, event management, or recurring membership software? This guide explains the terminology, essential workflows, features, privacy considerations, and how modern platforms can combine attendee management with smarter event networking.
How to Turn Event Attendees Into an Ongoing Community
A practical guide to turning one-time event attendees into an ongoing community through intentional follow-up, meaningful networking, recurring value, privacy-aware engagement, and a repeatable post-event community strategy.
How to Build an Event Community From Scratch: 9 Steps
Build an event community that lasts beyond a single date. This step-by-step guide covers purpose, founding members, programming, onboarding, attendee engagement, meaningful networking, follow-up, retention, and the metrics that show whether your community is becoming more useful over time.
How to Manage Free and Paid Community Events Together
A practical guide for community organizers who run both free and paid events. Learn what to centralize, what to keep separate, and how to design a consistent workflow for registration, approvals, waitlists, communication, check-in, networking, and follow-up without confusing ticket payment with attendee management.
How to Host Members-Only Community Events: A Practical Guide
Learn how to host members-only community events that feel private, organized, and worth attending. This practical guide covers event goals, member eligibility, registration and approval, waitlists, secure access, check-in, meaningful networking, privacy, follow-up, and the systems organizers need to run a successful private community event.
How to Create a Public Event Calendar: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to create a public event calendar that makes events easy to discover, share and join. This practical guide covers calendar structure, publishing options, registration, privacy, promotion and attendee experience, plus when an event platform such as MeetWho can simplify event management and meaningful networking.
How to Run Recurring Community Events That People Keep Attending
Learn how to run recurring community events with a repeatable system for planning, scheduling, registration, reminders, check-in, meaningful networking, feedback, and continuous improvement—without rebuilding your event process from scratch every time.
How to Create and Manage an Event Series: A Practical Guide for Organizers
Learn how to create and manage an event series from planning and registration to attendee communication, check-in, networking, and post-event follow-up. This practical guide gives organizers a repeatable system for running recurring and multi-session events without losing consistency between sessions.
How to Create a Shared Calendar for Multiple Events: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to building one shared calendar for multiple events: choose the right calendar setup, define permissions, add and organize recurring or one-off events, manage time zones and conflicts, and understand when a dedicated event platform such as MeetWho is useful for registration, attendee management, reminders, check-in, and networking.
How to Publish All Your Company Events in One Calendar
A practical guide to creating one reliable calendar for every company event—from standardizing event data and publishing workflows to registration, reminders, governance, and post-event follow-up. It also shows where MeetWho can support event pages, attendee management, and meaningful networking without turning the calendar itself into a product pitch.