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Event Social Agent: Extending The Experience

As I wrote about previously the event social agent is the representative at events and conferences who facilitates conversation about the event and supports the community on social networks.  Preproduction before the event is critical to success with the agent’s effort during the event itself, but the payoff is really once the event is over.  [...]

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Event Social Agent: Live At The Conference

I wrote previously about the preproduction work that has to be done by the event social agent before the event or conference in order to be set the stage and be prepared for the big day or few days when they’ll be actively engaged with attendees.
Arm For Bear
The event social agent needs the right tools [...]

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Event Social Agent: Advance Work

You cannot expecting an event social agent to hit the ground running on the day of the conference.  Preproduction for the event social agent is just as important as for the rest of the event crew. There is plenty of work that needs to be done in advance so that he has the tools that [...]

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Event Social Agent In Action

A colleague told me the other day that his client doesn’t want to use social media because once their content is “out there” then they have no control of how it is used or disseminated.  Of course what is interesting is that the client assumes that their content isn’t already “out there.”  Just because the [...]

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Social Media Agent

At our 1 Jack virtual meeting yesterday on the future of conferences I presented the following concept for a Event Social Agent who would attend every event and conference that we produce.  The following is a simplistic description of the position as naturally  pre and post event work should be included as well as development [...]

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Sharing The Love About Those You Love

In the last couple of weeks I was asked by the BlackBerry application Viigo and the IM client Digsby to nominate them for Mashable’s Open Web Awards and each time I did it gladly.  Why,  because I love both products and want them to be recognized for excellence.  I suppose that I was an easy [...]

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Use Social Media Like An Activist

I’ve already posted about what the 350 campaign is and the results of 350’s effort. They are a fantastic organization and what  particularly was impressive about their organization is the way that they used social media. Here are 6 of 350’s tactics that you should emulate  when creating your own social media campaign [...]

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Case Study: TSA’s Social Media Damage Control

A mother is stopped at airport security and searched by the TSA, in the process her son is taken from her by the security agents.  Her son is shortly returned, unharmed, but the damage is done because the mother is a mommyblogger and she tells the story on her blog causing indignation and further eroding [...]

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What If All Events Were Like HONK!?

Last weekend I attended HONK! festival and parade held each October in Somerville and Cambridge, MA.  HONK! is one of my favorite events of the fall with great music from lots of bands, crazy costumes, performers who are really excited to be there and amazing fans.  Those fans, myself included, create a lot of [...]

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Early Holiday Present For Travelers: Free Wifi on Virgin America Thanks to Google

I love wifi access when I’m traveling and will go out of my for companies that provide it to me for free.  So Google sponsoring free wifi on Virgin America flights this holiday season is a present just perfect for folks like me.
Google and Virgin America are teaming up to bring you free in-flight WiFi [...]

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