How Can Associations Make Use of Social Media Tools? Next #eventtable Chat

How can associations make the best use of the new marketing and communication tools provided by social media?  KiKi L’Italien, President of Amplified Growth, Inc.  will help us to answer that question on the next #eventtable chat scheduled for Monday, May 21 at 3 pm est. A social enterprise strategist who specializes in associations, KiKi [...]

Are Event Sponsorships Worth the Money? Next Eventtable Chat

Event Sponsorships

It’s a little like the elephant in the room. Broadcast advertising is no longer the only game in town. The advent of social media has added many more options for marketers. And everyone is demanding more interaction, more value for their money. Do traditional event sponsorship packages fit into this new world? Lindsay Fultz, Marketing [...]

Pros Share Tips For Using Social Media to Augment Corporate Events

Social Media for Corporate Events

What are the advantages of using social media to enhance your corporate event and what are some methods that work?  These were some of the questions participants on the April 30 #Eventtable chat addressed. Our special guest was Jill Drury of Drury Design Dynamics who has developed social media strategies specifically for corporate events.  Jill [...]

Using Social Media to Augment Corporate Events

Jill Drury

Drury Design Dynamics‘ Jill Drury believes in using social media to add value for corporate events. The full-service business communications company specializing in planning and producing meetings, learning and performance programs, strategic consulting and more, has had great success increasing the social impact of events by providing “bandwidth” needed to maximize the overall experience. Jill [...]

Chat Participants Share Favorite Events & How They Elicited Good Feelings

During the last #eventtable Twitter chat, our opening question “What was the best experience you’ve had at an event?” drew a similar response from many of the event professional participants – Event Camp. For a chat titled “Increasing Good Feelings for Attendees,” it seemed significant. Our guest on the chat, Neuroscience Researcher Andrea Sullivan of [...]

Google Changes Will Make Content Marketing More Important Than Ever For Events

“It’s ALL about the content,” is true now more than ever thanks to algorithm changes Google will be making in the near future. The changes will penalize websites that are “over” optimized for search engines, said Google’s Matt Cutts recently at SXSW.  This means that sites using lots of key words, links or other SEO [...]

How Social Media is Changing Humanity and Events

This weeks #eventtable chat featured guest Lynn Randall of Randall Insight’s, a company that helps planners apply the lessons of neuroscience and macroergonomics to supercharge engagement. Lynn helped us tackle the subject of how social media is changing humanity and how this is affecting events. The discussion was a lively one which ran the gamut [...]

How Social Media is Changing Humanity & How This Changes Events

Society, education and even the way our brains work have all been strongly impacted by the advent of computers and social media. So much has changed so quickly that we have barely had time to ponder it all. Last fall at Event Camp Twin Cities 2011, Lynn Randall of Randall Insights, Andrea Sullivan of BrainStrength [...]

Content Strategy in a Newly Connected World: Free, Fee or Hybrid?

Should content be free or offered for a fee? There could be a lot of revenue and visibility riding on the answer. As content capture specialists, we spend a lot of time talking to clients about the objectives behind their meetings and the specific format and level of detail that will help them achieve those [...]

The Conference Your Conference Could Be

If you could reach a wider audience with your next conference and deliver a far more engaging, immersive experience onsite, would you want to? How you answer that question—and the steps you’re prepared to take to set a new plan in motion—may not be as obvious as you might think. Your response will tell you [...]