Tag Archive: technology

The Association Digital Revolution: In The Palm Of Your Members’ Hand

Tweet The Pew Internet Mobile Access 2010 July report shows that six in ten Americans go online wirelessly to access the Internet using a laptop or cell phone. Synovate reports 82 percent of Americans never leave home without their mobile phones, while 42 percent say they cannot live without these devices. Roughly 4 billion people…

Ten Criteria For Choosing The Right Core Event Tech Providers

Tweet How do you choose which core event technology providers you’re going to use? Core event technologies include your registration system, online event website and electronic marketing, event eCommunity, exhibitor sales management, tradeshow floor plan, lead retrieval, event management, event mobile app and others. Do you base your decisions on price, customer service, newest features,…

Six Best Practices For Creating An Online Interactive Exhibitor Listing That Gets Results

Tweet I’m blogging as part of the TSNN blog team. My posts will focus on technology and business processes that help move the needle for growing your show. Here’s my first post. We all know that measuring ROI from tradeshow participation is like painting a moving car. Buyers are at various stages: awareness, consideration, preference and…

Four Rules to Create Value 2.0 for Events

Tweet This article was written (well, ghostwritten by me in collaboration with Dave Lutz) for Dave’s People & Processes column in PCMA’s April edition of Convene. Every association is faced with a choice: Find ways to capitalize on disruptive technologies — which enable hybrid and virtual meetings — or ignore them at their own risk….

14 Online eCommunity Options For Your Next Annual Meeting

Tweet Online conference eCommunities were the rage in 2009 Did you offer one for your annual meeting attendees? I did. So what are they? Online eCommunities are virtual communities of people that primarily interact via the Internet for social, professional, educational or other purposes. Online Conference eCommunities have become a supplemental form of communication between…