There are many ways to use social media for your next event. Here are just a few to consider. Add your ideas in the comments area.
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1. Identify a hashtag for your conference.
A hashtag is a key word or abbreviation preceded by the hash or number symbol such as #EC10. Hashtags are adopted by event organizers to encourage conference participants to use in their tweet...
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If you haven't seen it yet, check out this great article by Jeff Hurt, 8 ways to make your event blog/twitter friendly. I'm a blogger, so I thought it might be useful to revisit Jeff's article, switching the point of view to focus on my basic needs as a blogger. 8 seems to be a popular number.
Free wifi that actually works--Unless you want me tweeting that the wifi is too slow, you better make sure your facility has the wifi capacity to handle me and my blogging pals. We're going to push most ne...
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Recently, I attended HSM’s World Innovation Forum 2009 (WIF09) as a virtual attendee and followed a minimum of 20 leading innovation bloggers share real time thoughts, insights and opinions from the event through their blogs and Twitter accounts. Pitney Bowes sponsored the Word Innovation Forum Bloggers Hub for pre-registered bloggers and Tweeps and the WIF09’s Twitter Kiosks. Those tweeting from the conference used the hashtag #wif09 and third party applications like TweetDeck, TweetGrid and TweetChat to follow ...
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