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Lyksumlikrish’s Top Links April 11-17, 2010

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1 – 3 steps to achieve marketing success in any venture by @MarketLikeAChik

2 – Social media’s impact on business, decision-making by CEO’s, managers: 12 key findings

3 – #EIR – How 2 find click-worthy links to tweet, quickly & easily

4 – How to fit branding into your busy life [...]

Lyksumlikrish’s Top Links April 4-10, 2010

1 – Engage, inform & retweet! These #eventprofs are masters!!

2 – #EIR – Actions speak louder than Twitter backgrounds

3 – Lead generation for event companies

4 – Are social events the new corporate?

5 – MPI President Bruce McMillan on hybrid live/virtual events, more

6 – 3 foolish things you’re doing badmouthing your competition [...]

Lyksumlikrish’s Top Links March 28 – April 3, 2010

1 – Events industry it’s time to step out from behind the curtain

2 – Follow list or individuals. These are the thought leaders of #eventprofs

3 – We are the problem. We are selling conference snake oil

4 – 20 things you should share on social media

5 – How meetings are changing – post [...]

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 [...]

Lyksumlikrish’s Top Links March 7 – 21, 2010

1 – Tradeshow Presenter Emilie Barta shares examples of Worst/Best tradeshow exhibits (video)

2 – How to manage your Twitter following & followers

3 – The REAL bucket list!

4 – How to use social media to market a large event

5 – Cool tools: Twitter sheep – know your followers

6 – Actually, it’s easy being green!

7 [...]

Lyksumlikrish’s Top Links March 7 – 13, 2010

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1 – Top 10 dirtiest hotels

2 – Dressing for success in 2010

3 – Leadership, marketing & stupidity: An interview with Justin Locke

4 – 4 ideas for charitable activities at your event

5 – Ideas for cutting costs from your printed program

6 – 3 reasons why you should speak the universal #tradeshow language>

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What to look for in an online event community

The following is the second part of my interview with The Social Collective’s Clinton Bonner concerning online event communities. Please go to “Online communities for events: An interview with Clinton Bonner” for part 1.

Jenise: It seems that there are more and more choices when it comes to choosing an event community service. What [...]

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 [...]

Lyksumlikrish’s Top Links Feb. 20-27, 2010

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1 – Treat your AV company like your hairstylist

2 – Study: Electronic brainstorming yields better results than verbal brainstorming

3 – Top ten most outrageous venue charges

4 – How to make a name for yourself:Liz King on  the value of branding

5 – 8 meeting planning steps that will save you money

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Event professionals you should know: Paul Cook of Planet Planit

Paul Cook is a master networker. His friendliness, kindness and eagerness to promote others on Twitter causes people to take notice. (Paul was actually one of the first event professionals I came to know on Twitter despite the fact that he lives in the UK and I’m a California girl.)

When I did a [...]