I just wanted to highlight the tools we are utilizing for EventCamp in New York City this Saturday February 6th 2010.  It has been fun for me to play with these tools. Owning a meeting production company I can see more and more companies, conferences who will want to utilize hybrid events, the backchannel, and streaming solutions to promote and get as many people involved and content to as many people as possible.  Challenges for streaming… The Roger Smith Hotel is all wireless no wired internet so could give us a problem. We will see.

Livestream- Sponsor of EventCamp and it is really a robust live streaming solution.  I have in the past used ustream but LiveStream is the Mercedes of streaming.

Twitter- Event camp is utilizing twitter for the virtual audience to keep abreast of the live event, plus is being used as a backchannel for the onsite audience as well.  Many of the live audience has connected through Twitter already.

Twebevent-  A very cool tool that we are using to combine the Livestream and Twitter so the virtual audience can attend virtually and be part of the backchannel conversation from one browser page.  Only downside to this is the ugly Google ads but a great free tool.

Conference 2.0- An eventcamp sponsor is where our community page is held.  You can connect with attendees, look at the schedule and join in with the forum board.

EventBrite- An eventcamp sponsor is a great option for registration for your event. Eventbrite really can help events of all sizes manage, promote their events.

tumblr – Christina Coster set this up with this blog software for eventcamp it is our landing pages.

Live Tweets- A sponsor of Eventcamp which is a great solution for live stream projecting your twitter feed.  For events it shows pictures in the stream plus a great filtering service for those unflattering tweets.

animoto- Is a cool little way to put your pictures in a collage.  Also a very cool way to do a sponsorship loop. Or a happy face candids video to close out your event!  I also throw it into a editing software and then save it as a quicktime file so we can loop it on any screen.
Here is the unfinished video sponsors loop- but we are still adding them.

If you want your logo in this loop contact me. Their is still time.

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