Free Webinar: Leverage The 2.0 World To Improve Your Events
3 comments so farNielsen Business Media, Virtual Meetings, Successful Meeting and Meetings News asked me to present at the above seminar on the 29th of January 2009 at 2pm EST.
You are more than welcome to join the crew and listen to a great panel of speakers:
I will publish the presentation tomorrow so stay tuned.
85+ tools to manage projects
27 comments so farEvents are indeed projects or at least they should be managed as such.
Here is yet another free list that will help you to be more productive.
Remember to save it in your del.icio.us for future reference and to let others know through StumbleUpon.
Project Management Software
- Vitalist
- Redmine
- Qtask
- Basecamp
- WhoDoes
- GanttPV
- Faces
Xing Event in London, good start!
1 comment so farLast week I had the chance to attend the first Xing event held in London. Definitely great fun and spot on.
Xing has been advertising heavily in London lately. You could see the ad below pretty much everywhere on the tube.
Image by edmittance via Flickr
As an active networker, I checked it out and was definitely impressed. The interface is much better than Linkedin and it serves the networking purpose in greater detail (Wants/Haves section).
I was also happy to receive almost two years of premium membership for free just inviting my network to join (you get a month every 10 new sign ups).
What got me hooked up with Xing is the focus on events. They have a large, dedicated section and they feature Xing official events. Now you know I run a Meetup called Linked in London. I’d have been much happier if Linkedin did it for me, but my emails never got a reply.
To demonstrate the difference in the approach, Xing has an ambassador program which empowers top local users to carry events and evangelise on the territory. The major concern of Linkedin, on the other hand, appears to be cashing in the premium membership, although they recently replied to a post in this blog and possibly things are changing.
Going back to the event, it was very packed. They announced 75% turn up rate which is impressive, considering that the event was free and we all know how though is to get people to show when there’s no money involved.
Food was great, free drinks and several goodies. Now this is what I am talking about.
What Xing understood very well is that online networking is a tool to network better offline. And they delivered a great event to do so.
I also had the chance to chat with Liz, UK and Ireland BDM who was very nice and welcoming.
I definitely suggest you get a profile there and join our Events 2.0 Group!
25 signs your event SUCKS!
5 comments so farHere is a checklist for your event. Print it and comply with it. It will help you in making sure you are not boring to death your attendees or throwing them violently in the 20th Century. Enjoy!
You did not set up a twitter account for the event
You haven’t added the event to Upcoming
You did not asked people to participate on Linkedin
You did not set up carpooling on the event website
You did not inform your audience of a flickr tag to use
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Pixelated Conference Series – BarCamps
7 comments so farPixe…what??? You may be asking. This is part of a project started by Mithc Joel called Pixelated Conference Series, based on an idea by Future Now. Chris Brogan also supported it and now it’s my turn.
The project: A one day full online conference with videos from top speakers about a theme, namely BarCamps in my take. As my topic is user generated conferences, what more than users themselves talking about *camps?
Let’s see:
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