August 19, 2010

Looking For a Cool T-Shirt?

Once again, the coolest T-shirts in town hit another large meetings industry event – ASAE’s Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.

Engage365′s organizers, Omnipress is giving out Team Engage365 jersey-like t-shirts to ASAE’s attendees. To get a shirt, attendees must agree to be video recorded while telling us a little about themselves and answering one random question.

If you’re not sure what were talking about, just watch Sam Smith share his video story from Vancouver at the MPI 2010 WEC event

Get the complete Engage365/ASAE t-shirt details at the Omnipress blog.

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3 Must Read Articles

19 Tech Tools for Meeting Planners and Attendees – Jessica Levin (recorded session and links)
A Social Media Guru Farewell for WEC 2010 (Part 5) – Vanessa LaClair
How to Create Content That Engages at Face-to-Face Meetings (part 1) – John Nawn

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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.

August 9, 2010

Social, Innovation and Collaboration

By Christopher Uschan

What comes to your mind when you think about the words – social, innovation and collaboration?

If you’re anything like me, you probably have many different ideas buzzing around in your head, on your blog and Twitter stream.

We’ve been listening to industry thought leaders via webinars, reading blog posts, participating in Engage365 water cooler chats and conversations for quite awhile now. We think it is about time that we get together face-to-face to talk about how to bring more social media principles (think: two-way communication) into events.

Where? At EventCamp Twin Cities in Minneapolis on September 8-9, 2010?

One thing that we really like about EventCamp is that it is an innovation laboratory. The Event Camp Twin Cities team has pulled together several new collaboration experiences, the latest in event technology and some of our own Engage365 members to spark discussions.

To be honest, this is an ambitious topic that we don’t expect to be resolved in one day. Yet, it’s a discussion we think is important. Join me and other Engage365 members at EventCamp Twin Cities. Tune into Event Camp Twin Cities on Twitter #ECTC10 or follow the ECTC Blog.

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Beth Kanter is Back in the House – Free Webinar

Beth Kanter, co-author of the book, “The Networked Nonprofit” will be presenting a free webinar on August 18th at 1pm ET on how to understand social networks through social network analysis, do more with less by leveraging your network, create a social culture at your nonprofit.

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This Week’s Reading Assignment

19 Tech Tools for Meeting Planners and Attendees – Jessica Levin (recorded session and links)
A Social Media Guru Farewell for WEC 2010 (Part 5) – Vanessa LaClair
How to Create Content That Engages at Face-to-Face Meetings (part 1) – John Nawn

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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.

August 4, 2010

Social Media at Events (archived webinar)

By Christopher Uschan

Watch Tony Veroeven, Omnipress’ social media leader and Jessica Levin from Seven Degrees Communications to learn how to tackle these questions on social media.

Should you be incorporating social media into your event?
What’s the best platform?
Is social media right for all audiences?
What do you as a planner need to know before starting a social media campaign for your next conference?

View Session Overview and Recording
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July 30, 2010

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

By Christopher Uschan

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.