Want to participate? Here’s how:

1. Attend in person (Minneapolis, MN) – Registration is only $85
2. Be a remote attendee – Join the F2F PODs in either Dallas, TX or Basel, Switzerland to interact with a small F2F group while virtually participating with on-site attendees.
3. Attend virtually from your desk - Join Emilie Barta, ECTC’s virtual Emcee using Sonic Foundry’s web casting service and the #ectc twitter hashtag to connect with on-site attendees and sessions.
4. Follow the #ectc hashtag on Twitter to to engage in conversations with likeminded individuals.

Check out ECTC’s detailed program for the complete lineup.

Nomination for Forrester Groundswell Awards - Engage365 has been nominated in the “Energize” B2B category representing excellent and effective use of social technologies to advance an organizational. Cast your vote, comment and rate the Engage365 nomination… it takes just a few seconds.

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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.

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.

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.

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

Here are a few videos from others:

• Heather Hartland
• Mark Dunham
• Elizabeth Baranik
• Vanessa LaClair
• Erica West
• Anita Scott
• Nicole Putchel
• Sam Smith
• Dina Sibellino
• Danielle Letendre
• Kym Alexander
• Leanne Calderwood
• Renea Anderson
• Jill Schroeder
• Lindsay Brening
• George Kong

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

Who are your favorites?

Comment Now

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.

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.

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.

1. 7 Steps to Your Event’s Social Media Marketing Campaign
2. 25 Ways To Use Social Media For Your Next Event
3. 11 Lessons Learned: Social Media & Event Marketing
4. HOW TO: Use Foursquare for a Conference (or an Exhibit Booth)
5. 3 Reasons To Have Your Presenters Create Videos to Promote Their Session

Content Marketing Tip: As I have said before, if you want your content to rise to the top, try using a number in the title.

For the Engage365 overachievers, here’s this week’s learning opportunity…

• Harnessing the Power of Social Media Leaders: MPI’s Social Media Guru Program - Vanessa LaClair
• 5 Ways to Leverage Your Event Content - Jaime Romero
• Think Your Lurkers Aren’t Engaged? Think Again – Maggie McGary

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And no, please don’t try this at home. These stunts are actual performances by real people who may or may not know what they are doing.

And if you’re not shooting off bottle rockets or blowing up things, here’s a few articles you might enjoy…

• Ban Twitter: How To Stop Free Speech At Conferences – Coree Silvera
• Beyond the Big Three: UStream – Shannon Otto
• 5 Ways To Make Your Members Feel at Home in Your Online Community – Christopher Uschan

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