Kenneth Briodagh

If you’re not making Twitter an integral part of your events’ lifecycles you’re just flocking around. Here are eight ways you can add value to your events via the Twitter-verse.

Part 1: The Mechanics of Flight
Before you can become a tweeter of renown who makes every event a conversation there are some basics to be mastered.

Data is king. Every marketer knows it but too often valuable hours are wasted compiling hundreds of data points into a useful format when the time could be used to analyze the metrics and show real results faster and more efficiently. How you ask can I analyze without having first compiled? Welcome to the 21st century event peeps and meet your new best friend: the dashboard. It lets your event management software do the counting so you can do what you do best.

In the beginning there was the meet up where people would get together in real life. Then there was the Internet where suddenly everyone met friends online chatted via instant message and stayed in touch by micro-blogging their daily lives on websites like Facebook and Twitter. Now online social circles are moving out of cyberspace and back into the physical realm. Where is everyone going? Why to the nearest tweetup of course—a real-world meet-up made up of Twitter followers or “tweeps.” And brands in the know like Panasonic and Zipcar are moving there too.

So the time has come to cut some fat from your marketing budget but naturally you don’t want to lose any of your assets especially that branded tractor-trailer. Instead of ending or not renewing a lease on an old vehicle why not make that inventory work harder for you by renegotiating the lease agreement? You might be surprised at how much more you can get for those ever-dwindling dollars.

Cisco takes its global sales meeting virtual for the first time in 20 years

VIRTUAL EVENTS are one of the fastest growing platforms in the event industry. Yet despite their slick graphics 3D environments and high-tech appeal the pervasive question remains: How do you engage with attendees if you can’t see touch or talk to them?