Attend conferences and seminars. How does someone new to social media know one conference from another? Less than one year ago, I may not have known the difference between a valuable conference and a sales pitch. received a mailer from SkillPath Seminars about a social media marketing conference being held in Indianapolis, on March 28, 2011. Although the sessions in your Indy SM conference look interesting it would mean more if you listed the speakers @skillpath. told him I would advise people to not attend their conference. Join social media groups. MORE >>

Do you work in the Meetings or Conferences department of your association? Social media and conferences, just like chocolate and peanut butter are better together. When it comes to engaging conference participants before, during, and after, a face-to-face event, social media is a remarkably effective tool. Social media can make your job more rewarding too, especially when you build a deep connection between the conference experience and the online social experience. Given all of that, what can the conferences team actually DO with social? This is how. MORE >>

Had to write up a quick blog post about the QR codes in the conference book for the Association Media & Publishing conference which took place last week. Check these out. Go on, try scanning them and see what happens! Awesomesauce. love QR codes! Don’t have a QR code reader on your phone? Click here to see where the first one goes, and click here for the second. Click here for the third… (normal web version, not the mobile version). I’d love to see what they end up doing with the responses they get…! But nice job. Implementation MORE >>

Home Work How acidlabs works Meet Workshops Speaking Past speaking For conference and meeting planners Press Clients Tumble Subscribe acidlabs Conversation. Conferences, inspiration, value February 4, 2010 in posts Image via Wikipedia This post started as a comment on my pal, Linda Johannessen’s blog post about TED and conference organisers. Not least because I want to discuss conference models this weekend at BarCamp Canberra 2010. As a living example, we all attend conferences, meet interesting people and say we’ll stay in touch. Collaboration. MORE >>

at the PRSA International Conference. You might remember another PRSA conference that I covered in NYC. Well for some reason, they actually enjoyed my writing and invited me to cover another conference. It hasn’t even been a year since the last PRSA conference that I attended, and it quickly became apparent here in D.C. Keep in mind that, as is the issue in any conference, the range of experience amongst the attendees makes it difficult for speakers to please everyone. So that is my full recap of the PRSA International Conference. Videos. Quotes. MORE >>