B-to-B Events

Most event marketers are trying to find the best way to maximize the power of social media at their events. But that can be hard to do if Facebook and Twitter are the only tools in their bag of tricks. With new and more targeted platforms popping up daily, it can be just as challenging to keep up with which ones are relevant and useful for the event industry. EM narrowed the field to eight of the most interesting social media tools, sites and platforms fit for events.

Hybrid events may be a new concept but they are already getting an upgrade as marketers mix the timeliness of one-off microsites with the stickiness of social media to form a one-stop branded engagement “platform” that’s always on, always evolving and never out of touch.

In our new Then and Now series, EM revisits old event marketing trends to find out where they’ve gone since we first reported on them. Are they old hats and has-beens? Or is that past up-and-comer a future best practice that’s now an industry standard? In this installment, we re-examine hologram technology, which we last reported on in October 2006.

Everybody’s talking 3D these days, and no image is more three dimensional than a hologram, right? Maybe not.

Music. It’s the universal language. What better way to connect with audiences than by playing tunes that energize, motivate or set a mood. And now, thanks to iTunes playlists, brand marketers can capitalize on the music they play at events and conferences to extend the life of the experience and sometimes even do a little good along the way.

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