Discussions on Disqus

The great thing about online events is that the conversation can continue even after the event has ended. Leave the stream on for audiences who may have missed the live session or for attendees to share your event to increase the reach of your event for the future.



With Disqus, your website gains a feature-rich comment system complete with social network integration, advanced administration and moderation options, and other extensive community functions. Most importantly, by utilizing Disqus, you are instantly plugging into their community network, connecting millions of global users to your event site. Not only do you not have to pay for using Disqus, with the native ads you can even monetise your live event instantly.



Find out more about Disqus on their official site.

Live Q&A and Polling on Slido

Slido is an easy-to-use Q&A and polling platform for live or remote meetings, events, classes, and webinars. Event planners can set up a Slido event in less than a minute while all the participants need to join the conversation is a simple event code or link. What we really like about Slido is that the participants do not need to download any apps etc and they can participate by just going to a URL or scanning a code that you can flash on your live stream.



Participants send their questions or vote in polls instantly. Event organizers can moderate incoming questions so they have full control over what is being displayed on the presentation screen, as well as activate polls and ideas topics.

It takes literally minutes to get setup. The best way to find out it to create and account and try it out. https://www.sli.do/ Sildo has a free version for up to 100 participants.  

Virtual Gifting with SmaHug

If you are a artiste or performer and would like to accept gifts instead of donations during your performances, SmaHug might just be the app for you.



SmaHug is a completely free to use virtual gifting app to directly send and receive hugs, coffees and beers without any platform fees. Similarly to Slido it takes minutes to setup any account on SmaHug and you can embed the gifting app to your event site.



Not all gifts have a dollar value attached. Hugs are free. Check out the profile page from the guys who made this app. https://www.smahug.com/hug

Google Optimized and No coding required

That's right. You don't have to spend days or weeks putting together an event site. With FirstSite, you can spend more time planning your event experience and leave all the technical details to a Google Optimized no code platform. With everything on drag and drop, you can put together an event page like this sample in the next couple of hours.



Know of another app? Tell us in the comments below.