Social Media & Web For Events

Veronica O. Morales@TheSocialBeing

Engage

Enabling some measure of feedback or crowd sourcing on the conference programming.

“panel picker” which allows attendees to choose their programming selection

Intrigue

Official Web site

Free Event listings on:o Local Websiteso Partnerso Sponsorso Community Listingo Industry Publicationso etc.

• At a minimum, you should create event pages on:

• - Facebook Events

- Eventbrite (where you can also sell tickets)

- Upcoming by Yahoo

- Linkedin Events

Intrigue

Invigorate

Award free ticket/badge to the conference via your Twitter feed. Use a #ConferenceName to track responses

Have speakers produce teaser content/videos

Contest

Create a Twitter list of all attendees, and update it each time a new person registers.

Integrate

On-Site Experiencereally add impact and get people talking

Use a #ConferenceName to track responses

Start conference with an unofficial Tweet-up

Streaming Twitter Wall

-Behind speakers while they speaker or

-Have a central conference location

Inform

Voting via text message

Use for session evaluations

Use speaker evaluations

Use QR Codes

Put them on every

name badge this year!

Propagate

Stream live video of your event for FREE Why wouldn’t you?

Create Official Flickr gallery for the event

encourage attendees to take photos and upload them

Give prizes for Photo of the Day

Aggregate

Take the conference content and spread it as

widely as possible.

Your goal is to get the doubters that didn’t

come this year to view that content and decide

to go the next year.

Conference Presentations

Emailing links to attendees

Release them on SlideShare

(One a Day)

Aggregate

Provide Twitter transcripts as PDF’s to

attendees, and also post it to your various

event pages.

Reward good content

attendees that created blog posts, video

posts, photo galleries, etc and submitted

them were entered to win a prize – a free

registration to next year’s event.

Other Sites

Veronica O. Morales

@TheSocialBeing

veronica@thesocialbeing.com

www.thesocialbeing.com

www.facebook.com/TheSocialBeingTX