"Fabulous post.  For people interested in Quora, here's my take on it (referenced Lara's post!) - http://ht.ly/3BzwT I think it's potentially awesome and potentially disruptive to associations specifically, but we won't know until there's more people using it."

"I'm in!"

"Really missed you!!!  Did you see me sporting my Engage365 shirt??"

"This doesn't answer John's question, but we were part of the Association Toolbox webinar series put on by Peach New Media and they had a foursquare location for that - despite it being a 100% virtual event.  I thought that was pretty interesting!"

"Hi all, We presented a webinar on hybrid events the other day, and we received a great question from an attendee afterwards.  He wants to know: Specifically, how financially successful are hybrid events as compared to purely in-person or virtual events? In other words, does designed hybridization pay off?  We had our own answer, but you guys are actively planning and experimenti..."

"Awesome, thanks Mireille! Yes I think more and more of us who put on events or present at conferences are experimenting with these kinds of hybrid and "un"-style ways to provide educational content. I love learning from what others are doing as much as I love experimenting with all this stuff myself."

"We're excited to present this webinar on building an event blog. We'll be looking at three kinds of blogs - single author, multi-author, and event content as part of an overall organizational blog. Do you have good examples of event blogs? Anyone doing something radically different from an event-blogging standpoint? List examples here!"

"Just want to point everyone to this guest post by Jamie Notter which originally appeared on the SocialFishing blog (http://www.socialfish.org/blog). http://engage365.org/?p=989It continues to be one of the top-ranked posts on SocialFishing and I think it asks a really crucial question which is at the heart of the "paradigm shift" (cliched as that phrase is) created by social media - opening ou..."

"Another totally awesome article by Ian McGonnigal. http://engage365.org/?p=1174 Can you think of anything he's missed about using Twitter at conferences? Personally, I think conferences are the best way to show people who still think Twitter is a waste of time what it can do - even while you can still debate the "value" of the Twitter stream during a specific event. As Jamie Notter talks ..."

"MUST READ article by Ian McGonnigal - http://engage365.org/?p=1178I truly believe this is the year of social media ROI, which very specifically means measuring engagement. Check out the article, see what you think of Ian's nine rules."

"This is a great article by Eric Lukazewski about engaging non-attendees (or virtual attendees, basically) using social media tools. http://engage365.org/?p=1181Would love to hear how others are paying attention to those who can't necessarily be there in person. Anyone think this risks less people attending and paying full reg? (You know what I think!)"

"Great question. Look forward to hearing if anyone has dealt with this situation! (and p.s. just for reference this is the story Traci's referring to - http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/faa-denies-5-million-seminar-was-an-elaborate-holiday-party/19291456"

"We exclusively used social media to market Buzz2009 - http://www.buzz2009.org/2009/06/living-case-study/ - had 90 participants (which was the max) and 5,000 on the webcast with Guy Kawasaki. It worked amazingly well, however as this was our first one we'll use this data to benchmark against next year."

"My most memorable experience actually has to do with a presentation Lindy was doing on Twitter. I volunteered to tweet the session, and relay questions from Twitter should there be any coming in from people not in the room. Lindy had the Twitter stream up on the screen as she was explaining it, and it was truly fantastic to see people's faces as they not only saw the twitter stream flowing by..."