2011 Archives - Page 2 of 9 - Event Marketer
Sydney Museum Plays Host to Digital Paint Splatter
With the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the nearby Sydney Harbour Bridge as the backdrop, Sydney Australia has one of the most iconic skylines in the world. So how do you improve on something that’s already spectacular in its own right? Each year the Aussies manage to make their spectacular city even more...
IBM Deploys an Interactive Social Media Touchscreen
Social media has always been a powerful tool in the b-to-c realm, but less so for b-to-b marketers who have to find the appropriate balance between personal and professional information sharing and wrangling a wide variety of platforms into one event experience. IBM tackled the challenge last year with a unique proprietary software solution that...
Cascading ‘Twitterfall’ Logs Rogers Cup Social Chatter
The Rogers Cup Tennis Tournament is the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Open—an event filled with passionate fans, elite players and a lot of opportunities to connect with an affluent demographic. So to take full advantage of its investment as the presenting sponsor, Rogers Communications (they’re like the Time Warner of Canada) unleashed a Twitter...
Bacardi Lets Consumers Cast ‘Likes’ for Experiences
The event industry has a case of “experiential crowdsourcing” fever. For as long as most marketers can remember, all of the decisions about what a campaign would look like, where it would go and what consumers would experience were made in a conference room. But to keep pace with today’s empowered consumers who are increasingly...