Social media is the key to making your webinar a success. Use it before, during and after your webinar to engage with your audience on more than a superficial level. You may develop new professional relationships or get new customers by taking the time to interact with your webinar's audience.
Frost & Sullivan, a growth consulting business, reported in April 2010 that a survey of 1,500 employees found that almost 2/3 used social media for work, and almost ¾ used it for personal reasons. Social media is a powe...
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BizBash CEO and Founder David Adler seems to have a gift for connecting seemingly disparate pieces of information in a way that identifies important trends for the future of events and meetings. His presentations on the subject are fascinating and often spark engrossing discussions.
Recently, he agreed to answer five questions on important event industry trends. You can read his answers to my first two questions here. These are the final three questions I asked, along with David's answers.
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Founder and CEO of BizBash, David Adler is perhaps one of the most progressive thinkers in the events industry. He is known for being an engaging speaker and is also often the herald of some new trend or technology that seems to overtake the industry within short order.
I recently asked David to share his thoughts on trends in the industry by answering five questions. Not surprisingly, his responses were fascinating and full of useful information on what's coming down the pike. In fact, he gave me enough great con...
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In case you've missed it last week: PlannerTech DC , the Technology Showcase for Event Planners. A short recap on an inspiring power conference.
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What do you get when you let a small team of driven event peeps (Liz King of Liz King Events, Lindsey Rosenthal of Events For Good and Liz Mazzei of Pogby) bring together 10 state of the art event technology start-ups, a group of engaged event organizers, a magician for MC (Josh Norris), and mix them with some top notch partners to add s...
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As an event planner, you have to stay on top of numerous meetings and countless deadlines to keep your events successful and your clients happy. It can sometimes be difficult to keep track of it all, but with the help of your Android phone, there are enough apps (and tricky shortcuts to useful sites) to keep you on top of the world.
Evernote (Free)
Will Evernote isn’t planner-specific, it’s worth mentioning because it is the ultimate archiving/reference material app. It allows you to organize...
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At a time in which the very fabric of society seems in the process of being re-woven, the act of bringing people together for networking, fellowship, education or entertainment is taking on a deeper meaning.
The following facts taken from two articles in Ode Magazine, The Power of Strangers by Serena Renner and No Such Thing As A Thing an excerpt from Lynne McTaggart's book The Bond illustrate a few of the many recent developments and discoveries that directly relate to meetings and events.
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