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Corporate event planning is a multifaceted discipline that involves creating, managing, and executing events for businesses. These events range from small team meetings to large international conferences, all aimed at achieving specific business objectives. Whether it’s fostering team cohesion, enhancing marketing efforts, bolstering sales, or engaging stakeholders, each event is meticulously planned to ensure maximum impact. But what is corporate event planning truly about? At its core, corporate event planning is about organizing experiences that align with a company’s internal and external communication goals. This could involve anything from product launches, corporate anniversaries, and networking events to large-scale conventions and international summits. All of those serve as crucial platforms for team building, client engagement, and strategic marketing. ...

The organizational powerhouse behind any thriving company is an adeptly managed corporate events calendar. Unlike a business calendar, which is typically earmarked for individual or departmental planning (something we’ve extensively explored in our specific guide on the topic), a corporate calendar’s reach is expansive. These shared company-wide hubs chronicle milestones affecting most employees—from meetings and conferences to holidays, retreats and more. The nature and frequency of these events can vary widely, with some organizations regularly scheduling shareholder meetings and others punctuating their calendar with less routine, yet equally crucial events. Regardless of form, there’s no ceiling in sight for corporate event frequency or attendance. Case in point—65% of firms increased events budgets in 2023 alone (1). And by 2032, the global corporate events market will reach $1.17 trillion, expanding nearly 11% annually (2). Event organizers are also increasingly leaning into a variety of event formats—physical, virtual, and hybrid. In fact, 73% of professionals report growing satisfaction with online experiences—proving digital adoption will likely persist across enterprises (3). These striking statistics underscore the demand for centralized scheduling as more happenings unite flexible workforces. As both in-person and virtual events multiply, consolidated scheduling prevents conflicts and confusion. ...

Our digital age is all about making tools work together smoothly. Microsoft Teams and Google Calendar are perfect examples of this. They deliver great user experience and help us keep track of tasks, meetings, and events. But things get even better when they’re connected. In this guide, we’ll show you how to sync your Microsoft Teams calendar with Google Calendar, making scheduling tasks easy and straightforward. We’ve got practical steps, tips for managing your events like a pro, and fixes for any syncing issues you might run into. And for those of you thinking about third-party tools that could make the process even smoother, we’ll mention those too, including the Virto Calendar Overlay app. Our goal is to help you ensure both your calendars are always in sync, making your work routine hassle-free. Let’s dive in! ...

What Is Microsoft Lists? Microsoft Lists represents the evolution of traditional SharePoint lists to a more modern form of information management. It facilitates the tracking and organization of tasks for personal users or for teams. Enabling the swift development of lists, grids, and calendars, the Microsoft Lists app presents complex information in a clear and easily digestible format. The Microsoft Lists application is driven by three principles: Simplicity: Start a list easily from scratch or quickly with ready-to-use templates. Flexibility: Keep everyone in sync with smart alerts and formatting. Integrations: Collaborate directly in Microsoft Teams using flexible views such as gallery, list view, and calendar. Included in the Microsoft 365 suite, MS Lists is a work tracking app that allows you to create one or several lists containing whatever type of information you need so it’s ready to access whenever you need it. ...

Open the SharePoint site page where you have added Virto Kanban Board. Click “Copy this board link to clipboard.” Insert the link to SharePoint left menu or quick launch. Now you can navigate directly to the board from the left menu. The board will open as an independent page. ...

Reports from SharePoint lists Presentation is important for pretty much any data source – and SharePoint lists are no exception. Even if you have all of your SharePoint lists filled with interesting data, it would still be more or less useless unless you can present it in an understandable fashion. Especially when it comes to reports for higher-ups, you’ll most likely need dashboards, KPIs, gauges, and so on. Luckily enough, SharePoint does have a few reporting options that can be used in this scenario. It’s also possible to figure out that there are two basic approaches to a SharePoint list report here – to use an out-of-the-box solution, or to use a dedicated reporting solution. ...

Charts are a great way to diversify the contents of your SharePoint site, they can be used to show a particular dynamic, highlight one of your advantages as a company, and much more than that. And adding charts in SharePoint is not particularly hard, either. In fact, there are several different ways of doing that when it comes to a SharePoint Online page. Two of the easiest ways to create a chart in SharePoint is to use a SharePoint’s own feature called “Quick chart”, and to use another feature called “File Viewer” to embed the file’s contents (a chart or a diagram, in our case) – in this particular scenario we’ll be using a “File Viewer” to display Excel chart in SharePoint. ...

VirtoSoftware introduces the updated Kanban Board web part with brand-new features. What we have added and how you can apply this with maximum benefit — read in our new blog post! Kanban Board On-Premise for SharePoint keeps on increasing its productivity and provides more and more incredible features! We have just released the update of the Kanban Board web part. Now the web part provides two types of bulk actions with Kanban board tasks. Let’s start! ...

This article described how the new permissions system for Calendar Online App is organized. Please take a look to learn more about it. Virto Calendar Overlay Pro App helps users to overlay calendars from several data sources. You just tick the Exchange calendars, public folders, or MS Planner tasks to add to your calendar immediately. When you create a shared calendar, you have to concern about security. Large companies with various departments and many calendars do not suppose a calendar overlay available for everyone in the company. There should be users with a larger range of permissions and users with read-only access rights. ...

Virto SharePoint Mini Calendar App for Office 365 now allows you to switch to the Virto Calendar App with a single click. How it looks like and what are the benefits, please read, in our post. The Year 2021 we expected so much has just begun. Virtosoftware is already working hard! For sure, we’re going to offer a tone of useful updates this year. Just keep watching. A new year with its new plans is always associated with a calendar. We have updated the Virto SharePoint Mini Calendar App for Office 365. Virto Mini Calendar is a compact view of the same events you overlay in the Virto Calendar App. And sometimes you need to open the Virto Calendar as a more detailed version of your plans. The first way (and the only one up to this update) to do this is adding both Virto Calendar and Mini Calendar apps to a single SharePoint site page. Now you can just click the button in the right top corner to open Virto Calendar and see the whole picture of your events. Thank you for your interest in Virto SharePoint Apps for Office 365. Be on the lookout for our new updates. ...