The event campers: Mike, Elizabeth, Jon and QuAn discuss their experiences as a remote pod of the Event Camp Twin Cities meeting.
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Extra! How to use New Media Tools for your Event or Business Part One
August 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Meeting Planners podcast source for what’s new and exciting in meetings and events industry!
How to use New Media Tools for your Event or Business. In this podcast Mike discusses web presence, SEO, organic search, foundation of a good website, integrating Social Media into your business plan, why you should consider taking a dip in Social Media, strategy, targeting your audience, content syndication and much more. Little change which happened today as I post this show…. Friend Feed was bought by Facebook today which is an interesting development.
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Twitter used for learning
June 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
So the landscape is changing for learning, especially for the youth of the world. The generations coming up are now using more collaboration for learning. Instead of the old preach to teach such things as Wikipedia, and online intelligent discussions in large classes are being utilized. This helps so everyone even the shy kids can be part of the conversation. The new way of learning is not just regurgitating information through test taking but thinking, solving problems through searching and researching.
Dr. Monica Rankin has been using Twitter discussions in her class and even follows from a distance when she is not in class and comments back though Twitter.
Could this be incorporated into the three life bloods of corporate meeting content? Training, education and of course networking?
What do you think?
Twitter Events & Meetings
December 20, 2008 By 7 Comments
If you are on Twitter please put your name in the comments section so we can add you!
www.twitter.com/mmcallen is my twitter stream
John and Toms to follow!
Currently I use tweetdeckwhich is a great application to keep track of your connections in separate areas. I think a events & meetings section would be great!
Check out tweetdeck I really love it!
Also thanks to Greg Ruby www.twitter.com/GregRuby for pointing out the meetings twittergroups
Extra! Interview with Chris Brogan from ChrisBrogan.com and CrossTech Media
November 12, 2008 By 2 Comments
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Interview of Chris Brogan of www.chrisbrogan.com
Mike McAllen of Grass Shack Events & Media
Chris Brogan highlights-
Chris works for CrossTech Media who he makes sexy events, podcasts and new world media stuff. Social media –puts together the New Marketing Summit Events/ Blogs [Read more...]
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6 Ways To Utilize Twitter At Your Next Conference
September 22, 2008 By 10 Comments
I attended Blogworld 08 this week in Las Vegas. One thing that still amazes me is the free online service Twitter and its uses at conventions. Now I know Blogworld is full of early adopters people who jump no leap on new technology so I am not sure how long it will be before other industries catch on for there conferences. The Blogworld conference producers actively told people to use the twitter tag #bwe08 (BlogWorldExpo 2008) included in the 140 character tweets allowed. [Read more...]
