Basic Meeting

Overview

Description: A simple meeting (such as a midweek prayer service) to connect your online community.

Type: Meeting

Stream Source: Altar’s meeting rooms.

Setup

General:

Max members - choose more than the number of people you expect

Everyone starts with the microphone off - On 

Team:

Assign Hosts to run the event

  • Hosts can be assigned to help people having issues and remove unruly users from the meeting if necessary 

Who Can Join:

Public - Anyone

Set up Your Space:

Lobby with tables - Off

Lobby with rooms - On 

  • Add a single room for the meeting to occur in (i.e. Meeting Room)

Event Flow

Before:

Greeters/Hosts Arrive

Welcome and connect with early attendees 

Send a get-to-know-you poll 

  • Title: “Welcome!”
  • Text: “We’d love to get to know you better.  Do you prefer…”
  • Option 1: “Christmas”
  • Option 2: “Thanksgiving”
  • Option 3: “Easter“
  • Option 4: “Fall Worship Night”

During:

Invite attendees to raise their hands if they have questions

  • If attendees aren’t comfortable or cannot use the microphone, invite them to ask questions in the chat

After:

Announce when the meeting will end (so as to not catch people off guard)

  • Title: “Thanks for coming”
  • Text: “The meeting will be ending in 5 min.  Thank you for joining us!  If you want to connect, check out our website here!
  • Button: [your url]
  • Button Text: “Take me there”

End event (manually) after 30 min.

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