July 30, 2010

Engage365 T-Shirt Giveaway at MPI’s WEC (video interviews)

Check out these funny and interesting videos from the 2010 MPI World Education Congress where we (Omnipress) gave away Engage365 T-shirts to anyone willing to go on video and answer one random “wacky interview” question.

Enjoy the show and thank you to the brave MPI attendees willing to go on camera.

Here are a few videos from others:

P.S. – ASAE Annual Meeting attendees… you’re on deck!

Who are your favorites?

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July 29, 2010

The Networked Nonprofit – Using Social Media to Accomplish More With Less (Kanter)

By Christopher Uschan

July 26, 2010

Who Are You Connected With?

By Christopher Uschan

Ever wonder who you are connected with on Twitter? Or what hashtags you spend the most time at? Could you really be seven degrees of Kevin Bacon?

Speaking of seven degrees… Let’s see who is connected with Jessica Levin of SevenDegrees Communications using this really cool, interactive tool – MentionMap.

(Go ahead. Mouse over the map. Click on a person or a hashtag. Drag the map around. Have fun!)

* a personal thank you to Lindy Dreyer for sharing this with me.

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This Week’s Reading Assignment

Social Media: What Meeting Planners Need to Know – Sue Pelletier
20 Fantastic Content Ideas For Your Online Community – Richard Millington

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Engage365 is an online knowledge community where association and corporate meeting professionals can network with each other and learn proven concepts and strategies to help their organizations maximize the use of social media for their events… yada yada yada.

July 20, 2010

Engage365 Shirts Travel to Vancouver for MPI WEC

By Christopher Uschan

MPI World Education Congress (WEC) attendees get the first crack at the coolest T-shirts in Canada.

Omnipress, the organization behind Engage365, is giving out Team Engage365 shirts to WEC attendees. But wait, the shirts aren’t free. WEC attendees must agree to be video recorded while telling us a little about themselves and answering one random question. How easy is that? 30 seconds of fame for a shirt!

Be on the lookout for these short videos next week.

Get the complete Engage365/MPI shirt details at the Omnipress blog.

Want a shirt, but can’t make it to MPI? Perhaps we’ll see you in LA at the ASAE Annual Meeting.

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Webinar Reminder – 20 New Tech Tools for Meeting Planners…

Join Jessica Levin, CMP on July 27th at 1pm ET for a 1-hour webinar. She will expose you to 20 new tools that you may not have heard about. From Skype to DimDim to Jing to Meetings Wizard and many more. Register Now (free)

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3 Must Read Articles

Being an MPI Social Media Guru Isn’t Without Its Challenges (part 3) – Vanessa LaClair, CMP
Virtual Attendees are Real People Too! – 5 Mistakes with Hybrid Events – Michael McCurry
43 Social Media Tips, Tricks, Big Ideas & Real World Examples for Meetings & Events – Samuel Smith

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Engage365 is an online knowledge community where association and corporate meeting professionals can network with each other and learn proven concepts and strategies to help their organizations maximize the use of social media for their events… yada yada yada.

July 15, 2010

Engage365 Shutting Down?

By Christopher Uschan

First off, stop panicking! We’re not closing up shop. We have plans to make this an even better “using social media for events” resource.

That said, what if we we did shut down Engage365…

What would you miss?
What did we do well?
What could we have done better?

This is the part where you stop lurking and give 5 minutes of your day to tell us what you think. Don’t worry, the “comment” button doesn’t bite and there is no wrong answer.

Comment Now
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3 Must Read Articles

Being an MPI Social Media Guru Isn’t Without Its Challenges (part 3) – Vanessa LaClair, CMP
Virtual Attendees are Real People Too! – 5 Mistakes with Hybrid Events – Michael McCurry
43 Social Media Tips, Tricks, Big Ideas & Real World Examples for Meetings & Events – Samuel Smith

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Engage365 is an online knowledge community where association and corporate meeting professionals can network with each other and learn proven concepts and strategies to help their organizations maximize the use of social media for their events… yada yada yada.