First of all, let us NOT take our bad meeting and event habits from offline and simply dump them online.  If we start by making better meetings and events, our online events will benefit. Focus attention: Synchronous events can provide a heartbeat for an ongoing community, group or network. Alan Levine wrote a deliciously provocative post on last month that I’ve been meaning to comment upon, Five Ways to Run a Deadly Online Seminar . When I read it, my head was bobbing in agreement and recommendations.

The aim of this event was showcasing projects, rather than creating new networks or informal connections - and that meant much of the programme was fairly formal. The Flip for simple interviews around the hall, like these at the end of the event , and others during workshops , or with speakers , and also a couple of normal digital cameras that shoot video as well as photos. (They The aim of our reporting was to After a couple of days social reporting at a conference in Lisbon, my co-reporters Bev Trayner , Josien Kapma and I decided we should turn the camera on ourselves and reflect on what worked well - or didn’t.

We have the tools to coordinate and connect before, during and after the event — to keep the conversation going (it starts before the conference and goes afterward as well) always want to know who else is attending an event, what they’re thinking about, where people are staying, and where we’re going to eat.  And it’s nice to see photos of the event afterward, too. Face-to-face conferences aren’t what they used to be and that’s ok with me.   How many times have you gone to a face-to-face conference in another city where you rub shoulders

The other day I was discussing social reporting and other online activities for a £300-ticket, two-day event with the organiser, and he said: “Next year we are going to have to make it free”. It really brought home to me how much the way that events are organised and priced is being changed by two influences, at least in the social media field: first, people can organise their own events much more easily by using online tools like Facebook , Meetup and Eventbrite. Secondly, it is relatively easy to extend your event by a mix of blogging, Twittering, video-streaming and networking as I’ve described in posts here .

This is a free event. Second, This is a free event. Third, So, there are many useful events to look forward to in the coming months! Tags: Event Lately there's lots of buzz about innovative ways that government can use new technologies share data, increase citizen visibility, and promote participation. Our staff and clients are excited by the Obama administration's pledge to promote transparency in government, as well as the DC government's recent innovations with public data . As

Bev Traynor and John Smith's article about online events, blending online and offline, etc ...Tags: Tags: participation community events onlinelearnin

PR people need to be careful how they frame an invite to a blogger press event. This social media invite sent to Fashionista highlights some of the issues of running blogger only events. Bloggers who attend will receive a special gift and those who post coverage from the event will be entered in a mystery gift card drawing where you can win up to $500 at _____! I was recently told by a P.R.

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Twitter stream from the event: [link] Tags: Event The Marketing & Online Communities conference was held last Wednesday at the Tribeca Grand in New York. We had a fantastic lineup of folks representing top agencies, brand marketers and online communities. A

I’m delighted to find there’s increasing interest in social reporting around events … which may start with an enquiry about how to capture some video interviews, but can lead to a discussion about how an organisation may network with its members, clients or customers. Over the past year I’ve had a lot of fun using standard video cameras, mobile phones to stream video to the web, videoboos on a laptop, giving Flips to facilitators, and blogging before, at and after events. You’ll find a series of posts here . Bev Trayner and I were fortunate to work