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Add a Social Element to Your Event and Reap the Benefits!Source: Event Planning by Cvent

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.

Color PsychologyHave 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.

Source: Corporate Meetings & Incentives

Global MeetingsAs 2012 approaches, it is time to look back on 5 topics that have impacted meeting industry this year and for years to come.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Gamification – Incorporating interactive gaming components with meetings became one of this years hottest business trend.
  5. 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:

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.