Monthly Archives: May 2012

6 Ingenious Event Concepts to Watch Out For

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Julius Solaris

This post looks at 6 examples of innovation in the event industry. Inspiration time dear readers. One of the best selling products on this blog. Writing posts about new trends, cool events and innovative practices it’s a pain in the neck. It takes months of spotting, note taking and… Read more

Posted in concepts | Tagged f50, founders fun, lost lectures, nokia, repair cafes, techcrunch, ted, wwwconference | Leave a comment

Crowd.fm Out of Beta, Events Marketing Just Got Easier

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Julius Solaris

Crowd.fm, a service that helps publishing your event to different social networks is out of beta. Here is what you need to know. Crowd.fm is a platform that helps event professionals and marketers to publish their event to different social networks and event platforms from a unified… Read more

Posted in event-startups | Tagged event promoters, event promotion, events marketing, facebook, linkedin, multiple events management, twitter, venue marketing | 1 Comment

Social Media for Events FAQs

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Julius Solaris

This is a collection of answers to the most frequently asked questions about the use of Social Media for the events and meetings industry. During my recent visit at IMEX in Frankfurt, I had the opportunity to run a few sessions about blogging and social media. I also met one to one with… Read more

Posted in tips | Tagged blogging, event blogging, facebook, linkedin, live blogging, live streaming, social media events, social media strategy events, twitter, youtube | 3 Comments

Is Google+ Launching an Event Section?

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Julius Solaris

There are speculations that an ‘Events’ section was spotted in an update for their Android app. Here is what you need to know. Google+ launched amid a lot interest. Larry Page called it the company social spine. However, there are mixed reports analyzing the performance of the social… Read more

Posted in google | Tagged Event Section Google, Google Events, Google+. Google Plus, Publish Event Google | Leave a comment

10 Things I Learned at #IMEX12

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Julius Solaris

I spent a couple of days at #IMEX12 in Frankfurt. I liked it. Here’s why. I don’t attend a lot of events about events. Being a bit of a geek, I’ve preferred attending tech conferences. I did not have high expectations when I landed to Frankfurt. I knew I was going to meet good friends and… Read more

Posted in reviews | Tagged amiando, DMC, EventMobi, IMEX, imex 2012, imex frankfurt, imex12, Netherlands, Poken, twitter, Twoppy | Leave a comment

5 Event Planning Questions

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Julius Solaris

This week I decided to answer a few questions on Quora. Thought to share them with you. Quora is a great service to ask questions and get answers. It is no different from Yahoo! answers or LinkedIn Answers. At least in principle. In fact, Quora offers a great suite of tools to make the… Read more

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All The Best Practices of NFC in One Event [Case Study]

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Julius Solaris

No secret I am a big fan of NFC. I first mentioned it on the blog more than a year ago. Here is how one event has made the best use of this technology to date. The event in question is The Manhattan Cocktail Classic, hat tip to Techcrunch. The protagonist is Tagstand. A company I already… Read more

Posted in event technology | Tagged facebook events, Facebook Offline, Like Offline, nfc, Tagstand, Twitter Events | Comments Off

Event Fun #4: Geeky Conferences

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Julius Solaris

Thanks to Chris Shipton for his Visual Thinking, you can find him on Twitter @chrisshipton. Geeky… Read more

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