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Today’s Audiences Want High Tech With High Touch Today’s conference and event audiences are hungry to be engaged and involved in the experience. They want to participate in a variety of ways.
19 Tech Tools To Engage Attendees
22 Hot New Social Media Tools Worth Exploring | Social Media Examiner
Are you looking for the hottest new social media tools and services ? We asked our team of Social Media Examiner writers to share their best new social media discoveries. “My favorite new tool is CinchCast.com . This simple tool can record audio, either via the web or phone (there are apps for iPhone and Android), so you can share audio messages with your followers . While audio tools like this are not new, this one seems to work the best and most consistently for me both on the web and my mobile app. Cinches can be syndicated automatically to your Facebook status (not to pages, though) and to your Twitter stream.
Take The Wiffiti Plunge: Engage Your Audiences With Texting
People text at the store. They text while talking. They text during TV shows. They text from major sports and entertainment events. They probably text while driving, when they shouldn’t be doing it. And they are probably texting from your conference or event.I haven’t been useful in a while so I’m thinking, it’s about time to throw some tips and tricks your way. As many of you know, I started to work for Paratus Communications in London. The lovely Adam Vincenzini and I do all the digital stuff that needs doing and over the last couple of weeks we’ve been sharing all these little tips and tricks that make the social web so much more fun. There was a lot of “ohhh did you know?” “nah, I didn’t, this is amazing!”
The ultimate list of *free* social media tools | Social Glitz
Target audience : Mid-size nonprofits, cause organizations, agencies, brands, NGOs, Web publishers, individuals. This is part of our series on social media monitoring : S earch engines and free monitoring tools can help you find mentions of your brand easily, but if you want to take your social media efforts to the next level, you may want to consider using a social media monitoring vendor. Once your nonprofit or business reaches a certain size — with, say, hundreds of daily mentions — a paid social media monitoring vendor or service can help you smartly assess the conversations taking place about your brand.
10 paid social media monitoring services for nonprofits
Hi, there. I'm Aaron Swartz (@ aaronsw ). I made this little program so you can view and link to a whole conversation from Twitter in context. Here's an example! Want one for your conversation? Just enter the URL of an individual tweet (it should contain a long number):
Aaron's Twitter Viewer
Bettween | Easily Track and Share Twitter Conversations
For the past 3+ years we had a great time fulfilling your desire to see other people's conversations on Twitter. Unfortunately, we are really sorry to announce you that Bettween is ceasing operations indefinitely. This was always a side project of ours and with its ups and downs we always managed to improve it in little increments. Sadly, we have reached a point where we can no longer take care of it and we have to let it go. We really appreciate all the feedback and love we received during our long (in Internet times) life. For the foreseeable future you will still be able to reach us at hello@bettween.com or @bettween
2,164 users - 1,333 questions - 21,411 votes Did you ever want to ask Elmo a question? Well, now you can! Just type in a question or make a video and submit it here.
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Buzzzy - A Search Engine for Buzz.
"Social Media Examiner uses Wibiya to allow our readers to view and interact on our Facebook wall without ever leaving our site. This is one of the tool's biggest advantages."
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Back in 2008, the Washington post covered a really interesting study in which they had one of the most famous and talented musicians in the world, Joshua Bell, play some of his usual concert pieces incognito in a subway. Almost no one stopped to listen or recognized how beautifully he was playing. Within the last few weeks- Jay Baer wrote a great post about how, thanks to new media like Twitter, it is much easier to come by information but along with this new speed of information transfer is a wane in more investigative knowledge mining.See how Curate.Us expands the reach of content while driving traffic back to the original site with a 5x greater click-through rate than plain links.
Curate.Us | Go Beyond the Link.
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We are also living in the era of short mobile messages. We share things using short texts, utilizing mobile gadgets and quick and easy broadcasting services like Twitter and Facebook . That’s why URL shortening services are blooming like mushrooms in the rainy season; simply because modern net users think that writing long URLs takes up too much time and effort (and those links would eat up Twitter’s character limit). But shortening URLs only solves one problem. We still have to use lots of shortened URLs to share lots of interesting web addresses. That’s why we need services that can bundles several URLs and pack them into one short URL for us to share.