When we are planning meetings and events, we always need to consider the organization they are being planned for. As we move farther into this century, more organizations have sustainability policies. These policies, we have noticed, have moved from just the “Three R’s” of the green movement (reduce, reuse, recycle) and have moved to ReThink, where we all need to look at sustainability from the mile high perspective, and need to consider people, planet and profit.
At the micro level of events there are man...
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With the close of the PCMA Convening Leaders and Virtual Edge Summit conferences this week, you might be wondering what conferences are up next for the meeting & events industry. Here's a little rundown of events that are scheduled through March. This is by no means complete. If you know of a meeting & event industry related event coming up in the next three months, please add it in the comments.
The Special Event Show , Jan. 25-28 Phoenix, Arizona
Event Camp National Conference, Feb. 11-13 Chicago, Ill...
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You’ve decided to take the plunge and create a Twitter profile for your event. So what’s next? Where do you start? What should you do?
Here are 35 tips to help you manage your Twitter event profile and experience.
1. When setting up your Twitter account, use the full name of the conference or event in the name field, not conference’s user name.
This way people can easily find the event profile by searching for the event’s name.
2. Your event Twitter profile bio is your eleva...
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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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Are social networks having any positive impact on conference and event attendance?
Are registered attendee lists motivating others to attend?
Conference attendee lists luring others to register
On the blog Interactive Meeting Technology, Samuel J. Smith discusses 20 Reasons People Attend Conferences. He lists typical reasons why people attend conferences. Several others have added to that list too.
As someone who plans events f...
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Here are some tips on using Twitter for your next conferences or events.
1. Embrace and use DIMTY and WIIFM from the beginning!
Attendees are more finicky than ever and will not sit passively if you try to sell outdated, poorly organized or inaccurate information. If they don’t experience DIMTY (Do I Matter To You: survey them before you create the content) and WIIFM (What Is In This For Me) quickly, they will leave. Use Twitter to start collec...
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