New web technology is changing the face of the events industry. Trends in social media including blogs, mini-blogs, RSS, podcasting, social software, multi-user virtual environments and more will significantly impact planners, exhibitors, attendees and event marketers. This session will afford the opportunity to share successes using this technology. Many examples and case studies will be sited and you will come away with many ideas to use for your events.
Learner Objectives:- Identify the major social media trends and their impact and promise to the events industry.
- Identify many Web 2.0 tools (many of them free) to manage, market and run meetings more effectively.
- Share with each other best practices in this very quickly changing environment