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Marketing your event has never been easier than it is now, so why not take advantage of one of the easiest methods of all: social media. Namely, Facebook. Jenise Fryatt offers some excellent ideas on ways to harness Facebook for this purpose in her article 6 Ideas for Using Facebook Photo Tagging to Market Your Event.
By simply tagging photos of your event with your Facebook Page, you can:
- Get likely attendees interested and interacting on your Facebook Page
- Spread the word about your event to a greater audience (tagging is visible to friends of your page fans)
- Get better acquainted with your fans and even recognize them at your event
- Interact with attendees while your event is occuring
Kick off this New Year with a few simple ideas like this to get your brand out there, extend your reach, and better market your events! For more information on tagging Pages in Facebook photos, click here.
Click here to learn more about using Facebook-smart marketing for your event.
Have you ever wondered what is the best color to use for your event? Donna Kastner of Event Planning recently wrote an article, “Event Excellence: The Psychology of Color,” in which she discusses picking the right color for your event may be as important as picking the right speaker. Here are some highlights of how color can effect a mood or influence a behavior:
- Red stimulates appetite.
- Blue increases productivity.
- White can inspire creativity.
- Black commands attention and respect.
- Intense shades of Yellow may provoke a loss of temper.
To learn more about how you may be able to influence your event’s audience with color, click here.
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As 2012 approaches, it is time to look back on 5 topics that have impacted meeting industry this year and for years to come.
- Hybrid Meetings - Hybrid meetings that combine face to face with virtual settings are increasing in popularity, translating to organizations saving on time, travel, and their carbon imprint.
- Sustainability – Sustainability has been a growing concern for event planners and suppliers. In 2011 great strides have been made with the Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC) and the Convention Industry Council announcement of the Completion of Sustainable Meeting Standards.
- Planning Brain-Friendly Meetings – Meeting designers are learning that understanding how the brain processes our senses and how audiences define boredom will separate successful meetings from unproductive meetings.
- Gamification – Incorporating interactive gaming components with meetings became one of this years hottest business trend.
- Vulnerability – The meeting, convention and exhibition industries remain vulnerable to the week economy.
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As promised, below is a short list of handy Android mobile meeting management apps for busy event and meeting managers. We hope you find this list useful, and please leave us feedback if you have others you’d like to recommend!
5 Meeting Management Apps for Android Devices:
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1. MightyMeeting Present anywhere. Start and join online meetings directly from your phone. With MightyMeeting you can store presentations and demo videos in the cloud and access them anywhere and any time from the web, smart phone, or tablet. Click here for pricing and screenshots. |
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2. IDOS – Meeting costs This handy app calculates meeting costs based on the number of participants and their hourly rates. It also displays a warning when the configurable cost limit is exceeded. Click here for pricing and screenshots. |
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3. Grupio Designed for conferences and tradeshows, Grupio provides instant access to event details, social networking (facebook and twitter), live updates from organizers, schedule, sessions, speakers and exhibitors. Event planners – generate revenue from sponsorships and ads, engage attendees with real-time messaging. Click here for pricing and screenshots. |
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4. Thinking Space Create visual thought maps that help organize and plan your activities and ideas. Mind maps are great for summarizing meeting minutes, planning new business ventures, organizing your study notes, planning holidays, and more. Portable Mind Mapping has never been so much fun! Click here for pricing and screenshots. |
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5. QR Droid Private QR Droid Private lets you use your camera to scan a QR code in a magazine and watch a video immediately! Or create a code from a Contact stored in your phone, let a friend scan it and get that info transfered! And much more! This “Private” version of the popular QR Droid app does not ask for “Your Personal Information.” Click here for pricing and screenshots. |
Have a meeting management app you’d like to recommend? Please leave us a comment in the comments section. (And if you missed it, see handy meeting management apps for other mobile devices here: iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and Blackberry®.)
Note: App descriptions are based on those submitted to the Android Market by the App developers.
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We’re back this week with a selection of Blackberry® mobile apps that can be utilized by busy event and meeting managers for productivity on the go. We hope you find this list useful.
5 Meeting Management Apps for Blackberry® Devices:
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1. Meeting Cost Meeting Cost is a proven method for increasing meeting efficiency. Meeting Cost creates awareness among participants about the approximated running cost of the meeting. The display of increasing cost creates emotional identification that encourages participants to use efficiently the meeting time. Click here for pricing and screenshots. |
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2. trackIT: TimeZone Edition trackIT: TimeZone Edition gives you access to over 500 time zones and cities worldwide. This is an excellent tool for any traveller or individual calling friends, family, or business offices in other cities. trackIT includes a time conversion calculator and a meeting planner to ease selecting meeting times with offices in various time zones. trackIT: TimeZone Edition will easily become an invaluable tool you won t be able to do without. Click here for pricing and screenshots. |
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3. CardSnap CardSnap allows you to quickly and easily convert business cards into contacts on your Blackberry®. CardSnap uses the high resolution camera of your device minimum 3.2 mega pixel required to capture an image of a business card and processes it through a cutting edge optical character recognition i.e., OCR engine and sophisticated contact data element identification algorithm. This results in little if any manual modification in order to create a new contact. Click here for pricing and screenshots. |
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4. Conqu Conqu is an easy to use yet powerful task management tool designed to help you conquer your inbox and get things done. With Conqu, you can organize the tasks by criteria that makes sense to you and then find the right task to do at the right time and place. Whether you are a GTD® pro or you just need a simple to-do list, Conqu will provide you with all the tools you need. Click here for pricing and screenshots. |
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5. Remote Print A Blackberry® first – Remote Print for Blackberry® allows you to wirelessly print almost any file from your device including emails, photos, PDF, Excel, Word, address contacts, memos, all Office documents and more! If you can print it from your PC, you can print it with this application! Remote Print also lets you send files from your Blackberry® wirelessly to your PC. ANY printer, ANY wifi network, ANY file that you can normally print from your PC. Click here for pricing and screenshots. |
Have a meeting management app you’d like to recommend? Please leave us a comment in the comments section. Stay tuned for upcoming posts about meeting management mobile apps for Android devices. (And if you missed it, click here for our recent post about meeting management mobile apps for iDevices.)
Note: App descriptions are based on those submitted to the Blackberry App World™ App store by the App developers.
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