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Face to face online networking

If you follow the #eventprofs hashtag on Twitter, you might have seen some talk between me, Eric Lukazewski, Heidi Thorne, Lindsey Rosenthal and a few others about a weekly video chat we’ve been experimenting with. Here’s the scoop.

Emilie Barta shares her thoughts on tradeshow trends

Professional tradeshow presenter Emilie Barta shares her thoughts on trends she sees in the tradeshow industry. For more tips from Emilie see:

Why hire a tradeshow presenter and how to find an effective one

Emilie Barta shares examples of best worst tradeshow exhibits

Emilie Barta on tradeshows: 3 tips for attracting people to your booth

Events industry: It’s time to step out from behind the curtain

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OK so it looks like maybe the events industry is beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Business is starting to pick up, albeit slowly.

The mistaken perception that corporate events are solely the realm of tax-money wasting, Wall Street fat cats has been devastating. The accompanying blow leveled by the [...]

Why hire a tradeshow presenter and how to find an effective one

Professional Tradeshow Presenter Emilie Barta shares her tips. For more great ideas from Emilie, check out:

Emilie Barta shares examples of best, worst tradeshow exhibits

Emilie Barta on tradeshows: 3 tips for attracting people to your booth

Attendee driven conferences: An interview with Adrian Segar

Adrian Segar is a former elementary particle physicist who, dissatisfied with traditional conferences, created the first peer conference in 1992, and has been refining it ever since. His book, Conferences that Work, is a one-stop resource of practical information and tools to help plan and facilitate a safe and supportive attendee-driven peer conference.

I was fortunate [...]

Emilie Barta on Tradeshows: 3 tips for attracting people to your booth

Tradeshow presenter Emilie Barta shares her three favorite methods for attracting people to a tradeshow booth.

Online communities for events; an interview with Clinton Bonner

It seems only natural that in their quest to increase opportunities for attendees to network and extract more value from events, planners have turned to social media.Twitter and the use of hashtags, webcasting and virtual conferencing are becoming more and more common place.

All serve to help spread information and nurture a community. But companies [...]

Are you enriching, polluting or just taking from the Twitter stream?

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Today I find myself in a reflective mode. A tweet I read has made me question my Twitter footprint, if you will. The comment was:

“#eventprofs tag makes me cringe. It used to be cool but now all I see is RT & FF spam from self-promoting suits. I’m [...]

26 things I learned about #eventprofs at Event Camp

Event Camp, or #EC10, took place Feb. 6 and was the first unconference for events industry professionals. It was organized by members of eventprofs, the group of events industry professionals that meets on Twitter twice a week for chats, and also posts helpful events industry information under the #eventprofs hashtag.

After months of tweeting [...]

8 #EC10 takeaways on hybrid events and backchannels

Hybrid events are where the new internet technologies meet with audio visual. So naturally, I was very interested in this component of Event Camp,#EC10, the event industry’s first unconference focusing on social media for events and originating from members of the Twitter group #eventprofs. I’d read a lot about hybrid events, but hadn’t experienced one [...]

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Why hire a tradeshow presenter and how to find an effective one

Attendee driven conferences: An interview with Adrian Segar

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