Just Chillin’ with Engage365

by Christopher Uschan

Ever wonder how many Twitter  tools are there out there? According to David Nour, there are 101 of them… or at least that’s how many he’s identified in this article:


twitter-dryerSo What About Twitter?
The Engage365 “Conversation of the Week”

Twitter enables folks who couldn’t attend an event to follow along. Have you ever followed a conference you couldn’t attend on Twitter? What was your experience like?
Lindy Dreyer wants answers to these questions.


Two  “Thumbs Up” Articles


Upcoming Webinars

If you missed David Nour last month, I suggest not missing him this month. He’s a top notch speaker and has many good insights to social media, marketing and events.

Oldies, but Goodies

Go pop a bag of microwave popcorn, throw on some headphones and kick back to one of these recorded sessions.

Learning Lessons from a Hybrid Event Experience – MPI’s #MD10 Conference

by Michael McCurry

About 10 days ago, I wrote an article which, in part, was critical of MPI (Meeting Professionals International) for deciding to charge “non-members” a hefty fee for their Virtual Access Pass (VAP) to the 2010 Meet Different Conference.  (occurred in Cancun, Mexico this week)

Eight Ways To Make Your Meeting Or Event Blog And Twitter Friendly

by Jeff Hurt

Recently, I attended HSM’s World Innovation Forum 2009 (WIF09) as a virtual attendee and followed a minimum of 20 leading innovation bloggers share real time thoughts, insights and opinions from the event through their blogs and Twitter accounts. Pitney Bowes sponsored the Word Innovation Forum Bloggers Hub for pre-registered bloggers and Tweeps and the WIF09’s Twitter Kiosks. Those tweeting from the conference used the hashtag #wif09 and third party applications like TweetDeck, TweetGrid and TweetChat to follow the live stream.

101 Twitter Tools to Help Achieve Your Relationship-Centric Goals

by David Nour

In advance of my upcoming Social Networking Technology Best Practices Book & DVD on Twitter for Business (with co-authors Michelle Cullison and Nhat Pham) my team and I have researched well over 1200 Twitter tools.  Many are candidly silly and useless – you could say the same for 50% of Twitter users!  Many were unique ideas, which became interesting products – but unfortunately, as we’ve seen too often, interesting products will not make a profitable and thus sustainable company.  In fact, many are developed by individuals and only a few weeks after their launch, are found to be broken or no longer available.