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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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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Have you participated in a conference or event back channel?
What’s a back channel you ask?
Open Back Channel picture from Guardain Activate09 source rooreynolds.com
A back channel is where attendees are texting or tweeting information about a presentation or event using SMS, a chat function or Twitter. The front channel, for lack of a better word and as opposed to a back channel, is the main presentation being delivered by the speaker.
Wikipedia h...
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