5 ways to promote events you don’t know

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Photo by luc legay Many people lately have been asking me to promote their events on social networks. My response to most of them is this post. Social Media and social networks now offer great potential to cut costs on event promotions. Social media and social networks are just buzzwords to… Read more

Virtual Trade Shows are Around the Corner

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Image courtesy of ON24 This is a guest post by Cece Salomon-Lee. She is the author of PR Meets Marketing blog and senior marketing communications manager with ON24. While her company recently launched a virtual show product, the thoughts expressed in this posting are not representative of… Read more

How to avoid no shows at free events?

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Photo by: Jon Curnow The results of a discussion on how to ensure that people who RSVP’d yes at your free event do actually turn up. The intrinsic value of free events I love free events. What I love even more is free events with free drinks. It seems like I am not the only one. It is… Read more

Get things done with Moreganize

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Moreganize allows you to share polls, surveys and to do’s so you can make everyone attending your meeting happy. We recently featured Gathergrid and pretty much loved the idea of being able to question your attendees to work out the best time to meet. Moreganize pushes the concept even… Read more

How to embed twitter in your event

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Photo by: luc legay The latest posts have talked extensively on how it is increasingly important to integrate twitter in events. This post answers the whys and hows. I was recently at ad:tech London and complained on how they did not integrate twitter during the event, although a lot of… Read more

Harvest Twestival, definitely impressed

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Harvest Twestival was held on the 25th of September for the joy of 220 Twitter people. Here is a short review of the event. Planning You could definitely tell that the event was mostly planned via Twitter. I remember logging in on the official website 10 days before the event and there… Read more

Google at tradeshows, this is what I am talking about!

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ad:tech London was not a great experience. One of the few things that worked for me was discovering Google exhibition space and merchandise. Completely spot on. Loved it. Why did I love it? Let’s see…. Read more

Make sure everyone can make it with GatherGrid

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Setting the time for an event can be a bit of an hassle. Coordinating the needs of everyone involved is a tedious job and there are not many tools to help. Gathergrid helps in polling the best time in an elegant fashion. How does it work? Needless to say that once you have found… Read more

The credit crunch of events

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Photo by: Kyle May The current crisis hitting the financial markets has impacted events. The trend of user generated events is going to shock our market even more. I already talked about making your event web 2.0 compliant. This is just a part of what needs to be done. There are… Read more

5 (more) free iphone applications for event planners

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Photo by: fr3d.org We really love the iphone and all the cool things we can do with it. As I said in this previous post, it helps me in being organized, do things online and keep track of my contacts in an very effective way. If you don’t have the device you may be missing out on few… Read more