Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

 

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Today Mike is joined by Julius Solaris in London from Event Manger Blog & Blur Marketing. Julius is also the owner of Event Planning and Management group on Linkedin.com.(which has 11 thousand members)

Mike and Julius were participating in The EventProfs Chat via Tweetchat this week. The chats are attended by event and meeting professionals. I am sorry I could not name them all. The plan is to have a live discussion as the chat went on hoping to point out the nuggets this niche crowd was sharing and have more discussion.

You can attend #eventprofs Chat Mondays 6-7 PM Pacific Time or Thursday 9am-10am Pacific Time.

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I hope you enjoy and dont mind this Talkshoe #eventProfs Audio Experiment which I threw down the MeetingsPodcast feed. Lara McCulloch-Carter started this Event and meeting bi-weekly chats using Twitter and Tweetchat which lets you see only the tweets with the #eventprofs hashmark. Today eventprofs took another step forward (or backwards some said) by adding video to the mix. Robert Swanwick of SpeakerInteractive.com headed this trial run today. The process was hindered by Twitter really lagging behind I found it to be 8- 10 minutes behind so most people who werent on the call were left out of the action. But I think they had some good conversation.

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What do you think hit or miss?

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Today Mike interviews Jay Smethurst from Illumination Galleries Jay shares some exciting creative tools utilizing graphic facilitation to keep your attendees learning and collaborating though the whole event!!

Also check out Jays Blog for some great information.

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Today Mike is joined by Julius Solaris in London from Event Manger Blog & Blur Marketing. Julius is also the owner of Event Planning and Management group on Linkedin.com.(which has 11 thousand members)

Mike and Julius were participating in The EventProfs Chat via Tweetchat led by Jeff Hurt of Midcourse Corrections Blog The chats are attended by event and meeting professionals. I am sorry I could not name them all. The plan is to have a live discussion as the chat went on hoping to point out the nuggets this niche crowd was sharing and have more discussion.

You can attend #eventprofs Chat Tuesday 6-7 PM Pacific Time or Thursday 9am-10am Pacific Time.

As expected Twitter went down as the Chat was suppose to start and Julius and Mike discussed virtual events and experiences as they waited for twitter to come back up. (We do understand the irony of a virtual event going down when we were suppose to be talking about virtual events- technology is unpredictable- like the weather as Julius commented)

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Are you using Twitter for your business or for personal use? This is a really great article by my friend Jessica Levin CMP from Seven Degrees Communications. She spoke at the E4 conference recently and I wanted to point you over to the article because besides being a great article I am in it.

Top 10 ways I use Twitter

1. I ask Questions
2. I follow cool- funny- smart people
3. Post stuff that is cool- funny- smart- relevant to my biz (events-meetings-video-media)
4. Post cool stuff that other have posted elsewhere.
5. Post resources that can help people.
6. Retweet cool- funny- smart – relevant posts.
7. Post events and announcements
8. To tell people Michael Jackson is still dead.
9. To respond to interesting people in my everyone stream. Get in conversations with people I don’t know or who are not in my Biz.
10. Try to make people laugh even if it makes me look a like an ass.

Twitter is really cool to make new friends. Also I am currently working with two people I met on Twitter. @neenz who is producing a meeting for me in Hawaii for the second year in a row. And my friend @brettbum who is doing all sorts of cool web stuff for me and our clients.

Twitter offers so many cool channels of feedback. The whole new twitter chats like #eventprofs is just amazing to me and I love attending (when I have time)

How do you use Twitter?

How many times did I use the word COOL in this post. (if you are correct you win a prize!)

How do you use twitter?

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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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Mike McAllen of Grass Shack Events & Media Talks about twitter and its use at events. Short recap of TwitterCon in San Francisco. #twtrcon

Quick links-
www.Twitter.com
Twitter explained
Sarah Lacy Mark Zuckerberg Twitter audience backlash (started the whole Twitter back channel buzz)
Hashtags explained
www.

Show notes:
Mike McAllen: Welcome back to Meetings Podcast. This is Mike McAllen with Grass Shack Events and Media. Today the topic is Twitter and I know that is the big kind of meem that’s going around right now, the big trend is Twitter. You see old Ashton Kutcher and all this famous person getting on Twitter and – and the PDidddy and everyone on there and so I wanted to do a little show about Twitter, it’s been all over the place. Read the rest of this entry »

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?

Grass Shack Events & Media recently produced the technical and creative for an award winning online marketing campaign for the Doubletree Hotel San Jose, California to increase the hotels web presence. We will be talking about it as one of the case studies at the MPI World Education Conference WEC in Salt Lake when Jon Trask and I present this July.

After starting out with a portal blog, the Doubletree staff takes turns doing daily and weekly postings. They also have attacked Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and travel sites to keep abreast of what clients are saying about the hotel and getting into those conversations for customer relations and quality control. The General Manager and the Director of Business Development produce a weekly web show where they discuss happenings at this popular San Jose hotel and the Silicon Valley that surrounds it.

Working on your web presence is getting more and more popular as businesses understand that when seeking information Google.com is usually the first choice of travelers. No longer do people just get their information from the phone book, look at magazine advertisements, watch commercials on Television etc…. They look to the web. What are you doing to catch the eyes of your clients?

How about this online campaign by Air New Zealand. Think they are catching peoples eyes?