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What would you like to see in a Social Media solution for Event Organisers?

Posted August 31st, 2009 by Simon Young
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We provide a solution already at http://event-master.com but interested to hear thoughts, thanks

 
The Social media service is a social networking solution for event organisers. It allows your delegates to chat, see schedules, plan agendas, create special interest groups, find friends who are attending, make new friends who will be attending, see their agendas and virally market your event to friends and colleagues who are not attending yet. Delegates and prospects use the social media service to plan for and get excited about the event, on a website that you brand and you control.

Your social media service site launches prior to your event and can remain active for as long as you choose, creating a year-round online gathering for your delegate community. The service can be tailored to satisfy your event organising needs from registration to speaker bios, schedules to calls for papers, maps of the host city to restaurant reviews, depending on the services you choose.  The social media service site uses your logo and design scheme to create a familiar look for your users.

KEY FEATURES

Branding
The look and feel of your organisation including logo, colour scheme, layout and more.

Delegate Profiles
A quick snapshot of personal data that will assist the delegates in sharing/connecting with other delegates/speakers/sponsors etc more efficiently while allowing the organisers to more effectively gauge their connected audience.
 

  
Networking
Allows the delegate or sponsor/brand to quickly build a network of "friends" who are participating in the same event or group.

Messaging
Participants can Direct Message (Private), Instant Message, Post Message (Public) all in their network.

Groups
Form or join niche groups who share the same interest. Groups will have members/sponsors whose opinions and ideas are meaningful to you.
 
Email + Phone Support
Delegates can utilize their mobile devices to connect and distribute information. Fully functioning next-gen phone integration.

Site Admin
We will host your community, taking the worry away and giving you what you need without the hassle of hosting yourself.

Outbound Emails
Send email directly from your "social media service" interface. You do not have to log out or log into another site (gmail, Yahoo) keeping your delegates` focus on your message and your sponsors.

Outbound Twitter
Send "Tweets' (Twitter messages) directly from your "social media service" interface. This ease of use keeps engaged eyes on your message and on your pages.

Topic Crowdsourcing
A problem-solving tool that allows delegates/sponsors to post questions/challenges that engages the entire community and elicits responses from the crowd. A great way for sponsors to engage delegates.

Event Calendar
Allows users to track, map, set reminders and organise countless sub-events taking place at your event.

iCal/Outlook Sync
One click export of your entire calendar to various popular calendar tools, gCal, iCal and Outlook.

Event Feedback
An aggregator that tracks/compiles, mentions, blogs, posts about the event and the sponsors alike. Invaluable tool to offer sponsors a way of creating real time feedback on their performance at your event.
 
Product Fan Pages
Sponsors/brands can create "Fan Pages" that allow members to exclusively follow and participate in all activities surrounding a particular brand/sponsor.

Outbound RSS
Send blog posts and other simple syndication messages directly from your "social media service" site to keep attention on your and your sponsors message.

Blog Ingest
Users/sponsors can sync their blogs or blogs they subscribe to, to their "social media service" homepage easily allowing them to share their information to the focused and engaged audience at your event.

Twitter Ingest
Users/sponsors can receive inbound Twitter updates directly from "the social media service" interface. More eyes on your material at all times means greater ROI for all.

Flickr Ingest
Users/sponsors can receive and share inbound pictures and messages from the popular social site Flickr without having to leave their "social media service" homepage.

YouTube Ingest
Users/sponsors can receive and share videos originating from the ever-popular YouTube without having to leave your specially branded site.

Search
Allows all delegates to quickly and easily find relevant and real time information regarding the topic they are searching.

Site Analytics
Powerful analysis tools providing meaningful reports on everything from delegate participation, to trends, to registrations and more. A tremendous tool to show sponsors why your event is attractive to them.

Facebook Friend Match
Identifies a Facebook friend that is also attending the event. Naturally, those who know each other outside of your event would love to know who in their "circle" is also in the crowd.

Facebook Newsfeed Posting
Users can post seamlessly to Facebook, including articles, voting, blogs and more that will be spread virally. Helps create greater buzz about your event.

Twitter Friend Match
Identifies a Twitter "follower" that is also attending the event. Many people keep very different Facebook and Twitter "lives" so it is important to cater to both.

Gmail Friend Match
Identifies a Gmail "contact" that is also attending the event. Though popular, many are still not engaged in the world of Twitter or Facebook.

LinkedIn Friend Match
Identifies a LinkedIn "connection" that is also attending the event.

Delegate Database Integration
We will either integrate with REGIS or our delegate module

 

Comments

CONTENT IS KING

On September 13th, 2009 maarten.vannest... says:
Great project.

It is my belief that conference management software has a great role to play in the development of the content side of meetings.
Since the conference management software is already filled with participant data, it's potential role in networking (including social / on line networking) is obvious. I would say that it can play a role in all the core objectives of meetings: Learning, Networking and Motivation and influence those in all time zones: before during and after. There is a lot to develop and clearly you are taking a lead role here. Innovative and forward looking companies like yours will surely have a great future.

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