Covid-19 has put meeting planners in an interesting predicament. They have been left to translate hard skills, developed over years, into a digital and virtual environment. They’ve had to put a temporary pause on being able to walk the floor, bring their teams and executives together for in person rehearsals, and make those fine-tuning adjustments that typically happen days before a live event, and make it all happen virtually.

“You are a bully,” I remember saying. “Tell me in what professional setting is it ever appropriate to throw a pen at someone?” The incident I was referencing, was an event with the Chief Executive “Bully” that happened nearly four years earlier. I had carried that resentment, fresh as the day it happened, around with me for all that time, and it didn’t come to surface until I was resigning. Even now, it’s a challenge to identify the emotions I felt as I was quitting.

As the Project Manager of Digital Creative, Lauren handles all of our website projects, social media strategy, blogs, newsletters, and design projects. Learn more about Lauren in her extended bio!

For the right client, Adobe Connect would be a great enterprise level solution for virtual meetings, webinars, and training. With focusing on user training, the attendee experience will feel more organic, authentic, and may even be more enhanced than what could be done in an in-person environment. 

Give Lively was created as a donation management platform for nonprofit organizations, and since 2015 has taken the Forever Free Pledge. This combined with an effective integration with Salesforce, positions them as a “low-threshold of cost” platform for donation management, especially for those organizations who are capitalizing on their 10 free salesforce seats through Tech Soup. 

It’s June! Which means it’s also Pride month! While Pride month is looking a little different this year with the absence of in-person celebrations worldwide, there are still PLENTY of ways to celebrate and educate pride this year.

Recently we were recognized by Expertise.com as one of the “Best SEO Experts in Chicago” for 2020 and we couldn’t be more proud of it. As a team, we’re passionate about technology, digital marketing and helping our clients. 

It’s been nearly a month since police murdered George Floyd, but this battle began nearly 400 years ago. Protests and riots have spread their way across the United States and the world, and changes to the system are already being made. But things are far from over.

For businesses looking for a turn-key solution for webinars, speaker series, or panel discussions, Demio would be a great place to start. The team at eGuide dove into the free trial of Demio to explore some of the features of the platform and dig deeper into user experience, technical features, and a few use cases.

Many of us are now approaching 2 months of working from home on a regular basis, while this might not have been a change for folks who normally work from home or do so more often than others, for us here at eGuide it has definitely been a change from our normal daily routine of working from our River North office.

It can be difficult to master current technologies while staying on top of new trends. However, that’s why we’re here to help! Found in the heart of Chicago, eGuide Tech Allies has been keeping you tech-savvy for four years now. We’ve been a support system for organizations, businesses, and individuals who are looking to grow by increasing technology fluency.

As we are headed into week two of remote work and continually figuring out daily life with further restrictions amid the Coronavirus outbreak the team wanted to get together and give a quick recap of how working from home has affected productivity, communication, and daily habits.