Tweet Silos belong on farms, not your conference strategic plans. Unfortunately, most of us are familiar with the traditional company departmental silo model. As is your conference planning process! We work, live and breathe in silos on a daily basis. Social Media Streamlines Silos So it is with social media. It is often compartmentalized into…
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Juice Up Your Conference App
Tweet It’s time to juice up your attendees’ conference experience with a mobile app. The best built-for-purpose conference apps provide a seamless and user-friendly experience that can be customized by the attendee. Conference Mobile Apps Here To Stay Built-for-purpose conference apps have hit the fast-follower stage. In fact, most major conferences are in their second…
Social Media And Events Continue To Grow: 2012 Research
Tweet Marketers still place a high value on social media. 83% of marketers surveyed by Social Media Examiner indicate that social media is important to their business. 73% of event organizers surveyed by Amiando indicate that social media is important to their conferences, events and meetings. Clearly social media is a fad that’s gone rad…
How Twitter Is Socializing Conferences
Tweet Have you noticed an emerging trend of Twitter and Facebook integrating with TV? Smartphones and tablets are now on coffee tables beside the TV remote. Nielsen says that 40% of television watchers are multiscreening everyday. These couch potatoes have a TV remote in one hand and their mobile device in the other! Why? One-third…
Using Social Media To Generate Conference Attendee Registration
Tweet “This year we are going to start engaging with more people via social media,” your boss says at the staff meeting. “We’re going to have a conference blog, a Twitter feed, a conference Facebook page and a Linkedin event. And I need each of you to contribute some weekly content.” Hearts drop. Eyes roll….