Tweet When I say Twitter backchannel, what’s your first reaction? Seriously, what’s the first thing that you think? Huh? What’s that? OMG, that’s a way to destroy the speaker’s presentation! We can’t do that. What if someone has something negative or childish to say about the presenter or the event and it gets displayed for…
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5 Reasons Why CSMs And CVBs Should Use Social Media
Tweet Convention Services Managers (CSMs) and Convention and Visitor Bureaus (CVBs): They are a meeting professional’s right hand. They are event professionals’ co-pilots. We need them. We love them. We can’t succeed without them. They help provide the onsite scaffolding and structure of our events. Without them, our meetings would implode from the time we…
A Twitter Conference Primer: Part 3 – Onsite Engagement, Follow-Up And 16 Resources
Tweet This is the third in a series on using Twitter at your conference or event. A Twitter Conference Primer: Part 1 – Preparing For The Event A Twitter Conference Primer: Part 2 – Marketing And Engagement You’ve set up your hashtag, marketed it on your conference materials and your marketing engagement plan is moving…
Twitter For Events: Eye-Opening Data From Ten 2010 Events
Tweet Social media is, at its most basic sense, a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content. It is a fusion of sociology and technology transforming monologues (one to many) and dialogues (one to one) into polylogues (many to many). Paraphrase, Brian Solis. How are conference participants using social media…
A Twitter Conference Primer: Part 2 – Marketing And Engagement
Tweet You’ve decided to jump into the world of social technologies and use Twitter for your event. You’ve done the first six steps to prepare to use Twitter for your event. 1. Ensure wireless Internet connections onsite. 2. Create a hashtag for your event. 3. Register your event hashtag. 4. Market and promote your hashtag….
