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7 Ways to Use Social Media to Create Buzz-Worthy Events

Convince & Convert

It used to be you spent five minutes registering for an event and then showed up on the big day, went to a few workshops, drank two free Coronas, and went home. Social media changes all of that, enabling events and their planners to have long-term, nuanced, shifting interactions with attendees. Linkedin (if it’s a business event).

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7 Ways to Use Social Media to Create Buzz-Worthy Events

Convince & Convert

It used to be you spent five minutes registering for an event and then showed up on the big day, went to a few workshops, drank two free Coronas, and went home. Social media changes all of that, enabling events and their planners to have long-term, nuanced, shifting interactions with attendees. Linkedin (if it’s a business event).

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. Crowdsourcing has become increasingly more widely used because it helps cultivate creativity and innovation. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason.

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Twitter Best in Events and Emergencies

Net-Savvy Executive

I recently experienced two events—one good, one bad—that show Twitter at its best. The first was Social2011 , Radian6's first user conference ( #Social2011 ). Conferences and Meetups Back in 2007, I followed the back-channel conversation at the NewComm Forum using Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ).

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #195

Twist Image

"Is crowdsourcing good? "I begin my annual pilgrimage out West to the TED conference on Monday (it''s now being held in Vancouver). It''s a controversial conference that is constantly being slapped around in the media. I''m lucky, as a professional speaker, I get to attend hundreds of events every year.

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14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

Direct Marketing Observations

What we have here is the full circle of social media; crowdsourcing, participation, sharing and invaluable input from peers, consultants and practitioners of what works-all for the benefit of quick internal corporate adoption. 5) Teach your execs and colleagues how to follow conferences and events and comment via hashtags.

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Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite.

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 event we hosted with SMC-DC, a discusison about Google Health in particular came up. event we hosted with SMC-DC, a discusison about Google Health in particular came up. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.