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Talking Technology Awards with Corbin Ball & Ruud Janssen

While I was at the WEC, I sat down with Corbin Ball and Ruud Janssen to talk about the EIBTM WorldWide Technology Watch. This award is the longest running event technology award in the industry. The award has been a launch pad for pioneering event technologies for the past several

Posted on 18 Aug 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In Going Digital

WEC Final: Love 161, Fiasco Zero

One of the great things about Social Media is your ability to monitor conversations. The general consensus at MPI’s World Education Conference in Vancouver last month was that the Twitter conversations were up and complaining via Twitter was down. So, I did a short analysis on the Twitter conversations from WEC to

Posted on 14 Aug 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In social media

The Future of Meetings: Are You My Mother?

The Future of Meetings was a hot topic at the MPI World Education Conference this week. While there was a lot of discussion around the topic - the answer was not so easy to pin down. At times, I felt like the baby bird searching for his mother in

Posted on 27 Jul 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In other

Attendees: What is in Your Social Media Toolkit?

Recently, I was selected to be one of the MPI Social Media Guru’s for the Meeting Professionals International World Education Conference in Vancouver. As part of the deal, I made this little video with my iphone: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PhW7VhM63A] The video immediately prompted questions about what I am bringing to participate in Social Media onsite.

Posted on 24 Jun 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In social media

Are You Ready for Social Media in the New Event World?

A few months ago, I was asked to contribute to a research report on Social Media in events. The researcher was looking for insight on social media in events across several different dimensions - technology tools, event strategy, event design, co-creation, collaboration, etc. Yesterday, that report was finally published by Echelon

Posted on 16 Jun 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In social media

Stars, Champions, Trolls and Your Event Community

We know much more about setting up and managing an event community than we did a year ago. The report “Best Practices in Online Community Management” produced by Pathable reads like a secret decoder ring for first time event community managers. While the report is loaded with with helpful advice, I thought

Posted on 22 Apr 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In social networking

After 110 Pages of Tweets is Twitter Worth It?

On March 5, 2010 - I celebrated my first Twitterversary. It came and went without much fanfare as I forgot that it happened. However, I thought it was worth reviewing my progress over the past year. In my first 365 days, I wrote 2,743 tweets - which is about 110 pages

Posted on 5 Apr 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In social media

Game Changer For Small Events: Zerista’s Mobile Community Platform

Did you hear that Zerista launched a new mobile community for events last week? It could be a game changer for small events – giving them access to event technology that was previously too expensive.

This new mobile platform is a mashup of Ning, Eventbrite, Twitter and Foursquare for small groups. Plus, it has a self-service setup AND they are making it free for groups with less than 250 people.

Said another way: Zerista can do schedules, messaging, backchannel, take payments, support checkin, send invites, maps and browse member lists and probably other stuff, too.

Watch the video from the DEMO Conference last week to get an overview:

Posted on 29 Mar 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In Mobile

MTO Summit Chicago: The Wayne’s World For Event Technology

Last Thursday's MTO Summit had the feel of the Saturday Night Live Skit - Wayne’s World. On one hand, we were in the basement of the Chicago O’Hare Hyatt with a stage that looked like it came from Wayne’s mom’s basement in Aurora. On the other hand, the sessions were

Posted on 28 Mar 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In event tech trends

Free Webinar: Beyond Social Media – Uncover New Ways To Connect, Engage and Educate Your Audience Physically And Virtually

This morning, I joined Jeff Hurt (Velvet Chainsaw Consulting) and Michael McCurry (Experient) in a webinar called: Beyond Social Media: Uncover New Ways To Connect, Engage and Educate Your Audience Physically and Virtually. The webinar was organized by InXpo and was part of their InXpoLive program. The webinar gave

Posted on 18 Mar 2010
By Samuel J Smith
In social media

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