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
www.thesocialbeing.com
www.facebook.com/TheSocialBeingTX