There’s a photo taken from behind Valerie Sumner as she stood on the Moscone Center stage last January at Convening Leaders 2020. The room is dark and you can’t see any faces in the audience. What you can see, however, are hundreds of points of light shining up at her throughout the ballroom. That’s because Sumner, then incoming chair of the PCMA Foundation Board of Trustees, had asked the audience to turn on their cell-phone flashlights — a symbolic gesture of their role as

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We all know what it’s like to be at home and sit through hours and hours of virtual content, we get distracted by email, we check our Facebook or Instagram, walk away to grab a snack … let’s be honest we all have done these things! So, if you are creating a virtual event, here are some fun ideas to keep your audience with you, at least most of the time. 1. Chat Room: Everyone seems to love the chat so be sure to include this functionality in your platform. However, durin