Google Hangouts. A Roadmap to Event Tweeting. By Ashley Chimal | @prodbychim Promoting events on Twitter can make you feel lost without a roadmap. As a business or organization, your tweet frequency is a direct representation of how involved or proactive you are. If your social media strategy is effective in terms of events, you will not only gain Twitter followers, but all of your hard work will feel like it has paid off in the end. Tweeting for events is tricky, and the struggle is in finding a balance. As an event organizer utilizing Twitter, you carry risks from both ends of the social media spectrum – from resembling a spammer to appearing as a passive host. Members of the Women’s Business Council engage in discussion at the WBC Harvesting Partnerships event in Dallas, TX on September 5, 2012.
So, Event Organizer, where should you start? Let’s begin with the human mind. Before you begin the conversation, you should keep these points in mind:
Pinterest for Business: 4 Important Tips to Remember. Did you know that online photo sharing can hold a great value to businesses? This may have been left only at individual opinions in the past but now Pinterest has confirmed that bringing enticing photos to the world can increase the number of prospects, create more buzz around your business and lead to the generation of more leads and sales. Pinterest is a social media networking platform that allows users to organize and share digital images from around the web. How Does It Work? Remember those images hanging around in your sitting room in spots where they can catch the attention of guests and people who step in? Well, that is the idea behind Pinterest. The wall or piece of wood holding the images are now replaced with what they call ‘boards’ which users can create for their “pins”.
For instance, you can create as many boards as you like online, to organize and share images picked from different interests, products categories or services. Features of Pinterest. Maslansky luntz + partners. How to Create an Awesome Infographic [INFOGRAPHIC] There's no better way to show companies how to create an engaging infographic than through outlined steps in the form of an infographic. A new infographic by Infographic Labs — first published by Performancing.com — highlights the best practices of developing a creative way to get the word out about new data.
As the amount of information we consume on the Internet grows and attention spans decrease thanks to a bevvy of distractions from email to Facebook, market research firms and other companies are packaging new data in visual ways. In some cases, infographics even go viral. SEE ALSO: 20 Reasons to Switch to Google+ [INFOGRAPHIC] From how to pick color schemes and graphics to approaching layout, this infographic gives you a rundown on how to best get your information out to others.
What do you think makes for a great infographic? Infographic via Infographic Labs. 4 Inspiring Examples of Digital Storytelling. Layla Revis is vice president of digital influence at Ogilvy PR Worldwide. Her specialties include international affairs, tourism and multicultural marketing. In 2011, Sundance Film Festival created The New Frontier Story Lab, an initiative created to foster the development of a new style of media production.
As media began to depart from traditional, linear films intended for a passive audience, the launch represented an innovative new era in entertainment. The New Frontier Story Lab helped many an interactive narrative come to life. Each of these productions features multiple points of entry across platforms and employs technologies such as facial recognition, augmented reality, geo-location, motion sensors, data visualization and the entire toolset of social and mobile platforms. President of the National Film Board of Canada, Tom Perlmutter's multi-platform interactive productions have also been revolutionizing transmedia. 1. 2. 3. 4. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, shevvers.
Twitter network analysis of events – what’s possible? I recently connected with Daniel Knox (@djkn0x) on Twitter – which is where it seems most of my connections are happening these days. Among other interesting entrepreneurial activities Daniel is playing with a new venture that does analysis of Twitter activity around events. To show me Daniel created a visual network analysis of the Twitter activity around Future of Crowdsourcing Summit (#foc10) that we ran a few weeks ago in Sydney and San Francisco. Here is the explanation of the diagram that Daniel gave me: Here is a simple visualization of the #FOC10 tweeters. In the visualization the size of the node indicates the inbound connections (in-degree), while the color of the node represents the outbound connections from low (orange) to high (green).
Daniel also provided the following stats: • Top tweeters using #FOC10: @natecochrane (38 #FOC10 tweets), @amylyden (29), and @kobygeddes (24) And this wordcloud (which you can zoom in on and move around): How technology is transforming events. One of my speaking bureau just asked me to provide them with a few quick ideas on how technology is changing events, as one of their key clients is having an internal meeting to discuss their future use of technology in events. I only had 10 minutes free to write something, so it’s far from comprehensive, but I thought worth sharing here. After events: - Social networking and discussions among people attending the event - Access to video and other event content - Run and track initiatives generated from the event - Suggestions for next events As I was looking for the links above, I was interested to see that introNetworks has morphed from an events platform to an enterprise platform that helps employees to make useful internal connections, including integration into SocialText.
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And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along. You’ll start happening too. ~ Dr. The Hashtag: A Door to Discovery on Twitter It is hard to miss the # sign attached to keywords, acronyms and phrases in tweets on Twitter. Started as a way to create groupings on Twitter, hashtags are now a powerful convention for those looking to tag, find, mine and participate in conversations on Twitter. What is a hashtag?
“The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. The Hashtag Conversation: Trending Topics and Twitter Chats On Twitter, you can find millions of tweets using hashtags. By participating in Twitter Chat conversations, you can enhance your personal development, knowledge, network, health, business intelligence and even serendipity. 1. 2. Welcome to Beepmo. App for DEMO_2012 in HTML5. Hub Melbourne's First Birthday & Ballroom Expansion Celebration · ehon. Whois Lookup | Domain Availability - Registration Information. ANZ Privately Owned Business Barometer 2011. Growth is knocking at the door, how will you answer? The vast majority of respondents to this year's ANZ Privately-Owned Business Barometer expect to prosper over the next 12 months, and even more are confident about the next three years.
The question is, how will that optimism be converted to sustainable growth? That is, growth that provides benefits both now and in the long run? This year's ANZ Barometer holds three distinctive keys for business owners wanting to build a sustainable growth platform. For small-to-medium and commercial businesses, these include: Scale and collaboration Inspiration and planning Investment. For agribusiness and farmers, these include: Profitability and scale People and planning Investment. To find out how these keys can help you unlock the real benefit that growth brings, download one of the Key Insight reports below: ANZ Privately-Owned Business Barometer events Contact us You need Adobe Reader to view PDF files.
How I Got Sponsors & $ for My SXSW Trip. Going to Conferences can be expensive especially for small business owners. I also commit some time in creating content for Papaheroes.com and Veglatino.com which are efforts that are currently done on our own time without any financial compensation. Finding Sponsors I surround myself with individuals that have creative ways of sharing information with me and play significant roles into many of my efforts. I consult with them on many of my key moves. I spoke to Mark Hayward and explained my concerns with not being able to make it to SXSW this year eventhough I had already bought my Airfare and Badge. He quickly gave me a few ideas on how to approach my dilemma and recommended to reach out to the communities I am a part of.
Reaching out to Those Close to me I first contacted the San Juan Marriott because I have established a good relationship with them. Next I contacted Chris Brogan who has been a big influence in my life both personally and professionally. Partial Sponsorship. Want to get Sponsored? You’d Better Be Sponsorable WANT TO GET SPONSORED? YOU'D BETTER BE SPONSORABLE3 years ago Have you seen something like this floating through your social media data stream recently? “Who wants to sponsor me to go to Overrated Conference 2011?” “I need a sponsor for my blog. Anyone?” “Who wants to send me to ABC for the WXY meetup?” Just look around.
Why? You want to be sponsored? What does that mean? It’s a real word, with real world repercussions. It means that if I’m going to spend money on you, whether it’s to sponsor your trip to SXSW, or buy an ad on your blog, or even give you miles to fly somewhere to do something, I’d better be getting something out of it, and strictly from a business perspective, it’d better be worth more than I’m putting into it. Simply put: Want me to play the role of Altruist with my sponsorship of you? Let’s understand how: Before you head to Twitter or Facebook to drop that first “Will you sponsor me” post, make sure your ducks are in some serious order. Reach out offline, too. 15 Ways To Activate Your Events Socially. Originally published in Social Media Examiner These days almost every event, whether it is a conference, expo, or more informal gathering of attendees, will use some form of social media to stay in touch and offer updates to attendees. Some events, however, are grasping the full potential of social media as a way to reach a whole new audience and create an experience that goes beyond that of the traditional speaker-audience relationship and drive new levels of engagement.
Creating pre-event buzz 1. Registration buzz You don’t have to wait until the day of your event to create a buzz: it can start at the registration stage. 2. Encourage your attendees to share details of your event early by offering incentives for spreading the word. South by Southwest (SXSW) goes one step further with SXSocial, their own registrant tool which allows attendees to get to know like-minded users and exchange messages before the event. 3. 4.
Keeping attendees informed 5. 6. Helping attendees share information 7. Why being ambidextrous is twice as good. Harry Houdini, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Baden-Powell, Benjamin Franklin and Johnny Wilkinson were (or are) all ambidextrous, defined as being able to use both hands with equal facility. But a study this week found that "mixed-handed" children are twice as likely to suffer from attention problems at school as right-handers, while earlier research has associated the condition – which is often, but not always inherited – with autism and dyslexia. Here the ambidextrous mother of two ambidextrous daughters relates her experience: "I'm 64 now, and as long as I can remember I have used both hands for everything. I had perfectly equal strength on both sides; I used to do a lot of ballet and I was as strong on one leg as the other.
But of course things were very different then. At school I was always just 'cack-handed' and 'stupid'. "With my daughters, it wasn't the same. "Nobody in this family is allowed to use the words 'thick' or 'stupid'.