As you always thrive to improve the quality of your virtual or in-person events, ‘Audience Engagement’ will be the one term that pops up in your mind frequently. Because it is considered as one of the metrics used to measure the success of an event. Facilitating Live Q&A is one of the definitive methods to stimulate audience engagement during an event. The Q&A session is that part of the event, where you get connected with your audience by switching yourself from the role of a presenter to a person who takes part in an active discussion.

Keeping the attention of an audience is pretty hard. Keeping the attention of an online audience is almost impossible when you do not make a conscious effort. And many people still struggle with audience engagement. Good thing there are several trusty tools that you can put in your Awesome-Audience-Toolbox! In the next few minutes, you will learn about five ways to make your live audience pay attention. It does not matter whether you’re presenting in a workshop, a seminar, or during a talk.

In mid-2021 we were contacted by a team organizing a series of workshops for an event at a university library. Before schnaq part of our team worked at the University of Düsseldorf and thus was the logical choice to help improve the event. We did not only bring the expertise from an educational background, but we also had the right technology. But let’s start at the beginning: 1. The situation we got in Every year, the library hosts an event called “Lange Nacht der aufgeschobenen Hausarbeiten” (translates to “The long night of postponed homework”).