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Digital & Social Media for Event Organisers
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Richard KellySenior Digital Marketing Manager
@richiekellyhttp://uk.linkedin.com/in/richardiankelly
Digital & Media Directorate
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Digital Media in Context
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Quick Video
• I could talk about the importance of the web…• …but the facts speak for themselves:• http://bit.ly/m4C6O1
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Six Steps To Success
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Pre-Event:
Setting the Foundation
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1. Establish your channels
• Protect yourself: Register relevant online properties• Domain names• Social profiles
• Knowem• Setup a blog: Central hub for all activity
• Wordpress is free, simple to use and powerful• Create an event page on Facebook / LinkedIn• Choose a Twitter hashtag
• Short, sweet – and unique
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1. Establish your channels
• Formally announce it: • Blog it• Online press release
• PRWeb• PRNewswire• Pitchengine
• Be findable• Google yourself• Occupy multiple search results for your event name
• Multiple social profiles will help do this• Define measurement (more on this later)
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2. Spread The Word
• Create a content plan: Know what you’re going to say in advance• Examples:
• New announcements• Previous highlights• ‘Behind the scenes’• Competitions / incentives
• Make content shareable• Make content valuable
• Funny or useful, facts & figures• Be reactive:
• Piggyback relevant news & events
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2. Spread The Word
• Promote central event hub URL (e.g. Blog) everywhere – e.g. Email signature, social channel profiles
• Integrate social channels within central event hub (Twitter feeds, Facebook, etc.)
• Identify & reward Twitter influencers• Wefollow• Klout• Technorati
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2. Spread The Word
• Run a pre-event competition• Leverage partners’ social channels
• The Talent• Speakers / Bands / Artists / Authors / Whoever
• The location• Venue / Local Authorities
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2. Spread The Word
• Social event planners • Integrated with other
social platforms• Use your attendees to
spread the word: Their registrations shared with their social graph• Eventbrite• Evite• Plancast
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During: Generate a Buzz
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3. Get Interactive with Twitter
• Encourage tweeting wherever possible• Promote Twitter hashtag – put it everywhere!
• Posters• Badges• Presentations
• Facilitate real time feedback & discussion• Display live stream of tweets• Encourage talent to incorporate it• Incorporate with event plan
• e.g. SAP Twitter Powerpoint Tools
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4. Share it
• Geo-location• Incentivise check-ins with small rewards
• Integration increases online footprint• Find friends - Glympse
• Stream it: Show the world with live online video• Facebook/Qik/Ustream
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4. Share it
• Aggregate it: Use your own site to display the above as it happens live• Embed everything
• Generate even more discussion and buzz• Make non-attendees feel welcome...• ...but jealous!
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After: Maintain & Measure
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5. Maintain Momentum
• Keep the buzz going / fanbase engaged• Blog the highlights• Content generated is an asset – archive it• Use social platforms to increase footprint &
findability• Crowdsource help in organising it• Promote it through your channels
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6. Measure It
• Measure it: What worked? What didn’t?• Facebook insights• Google Alerts• Twitter• Bit.ly
• Solicit feedback• Facebook polls• Google Docs
• Wash, rinse, repeat!
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Summary
Beforehand:• Establish what you’re going to say, where you’re
going to say it and who can help you spread it
During: • Build a buzz: encourage discussion• Share the experience: you, your attendees, the
wider web
After: • Keep talking, keep asking, keep sharing• Measure, analyse, reiterate
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Richard Kelly - @richiekelly