The concept of community is everywhere. It's why Engage365 was started. It's how we build rapport with our peers and colleagues, exchange ideas, collaborate and work toward goals. Community is something that shows up everywhere, in our personal and professional lives, and is relevant to people across all industry verticals. Having a champion to help shape, guide and encourage your community's conversations and content is something that many organizations think about, but often don't put enough effort...
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Last Friday's topic for the Engage365 chat was Making Engage365 Better: Your Thoughts on Content, Community and Chats. We had a nice turnout with some very useful tips from participants.
As Engage365 is a community for event professionals interested in innovation, we are always looking for new information and ways of engaging our members that exposes them to helpful solutions and new ideas. Our focus on providing quality content seems to be a strength. But there is always room for improvement.
We also provide...
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Lack of funds or people should never be an event prohibitor, especially with the resource of generation y known as “the can-doers.” In the June 2011 issue of Rejuvenate, the article “Energy Rush” discusses how the 2011 PCMA Convening Leaders conference in Las Vegas utilized 100 student volunteers from Harrah Hotel College to serve as greeters, session room monitors, way-finders and set-up checks for the conference. What a great idea! Having interns and volunteers help with meetings and events is ea...
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You may know KiKi L'Italien as the moderator of Association Chat (#assnchat), or as host of the webcast, The Social Media Sweet Spot, but Joplin Missouri knows her as one of its own.
Like so many families, KiKi's was hit hard by the recent tornado that devastated her hometown. Now she is teaming up with her sister Kylee Coffman and pal Lindsey Rosenthal of Events For Good to create a fundraising event, June 13 from 6-9 pm in Washington DC, to benefit Joplin. She recently shared a little about the upcoming fundraise...
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Whether you were at Event Camp National Conference In Person or virtually, you were probably overwhelmed with information, links and good people. I will be putting together a more robust version of my takeaways complete with other attendee's comments, but wanted to get something out tonight to help recap the day. I hope you enjoy!
Chris Brogan's Session
- Content, Community and Marketplace - @chrisbrogan We get one or two of the 3 correct, rarely all three.
- People just want to belong. We have to pay attention...
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One of my favorite light bulb moments from EventCamp 2011 came from Liz Strauss. In her general session she described the difference between monitoring and listening in social media:
“Monitoring is like the camera on the traffic light that captures people running the light. Listening . . . is knowing which car was having an emergency and on the way to the emergency room.”
Such a simple statement. Such a true statement.
So I found it timely that on the heels of EventCamp I came across ...
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