How to use social media and other Web 2.0 tools in event management
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How to use social media (and other Web 2.0 tools)
in event management
Clayton Wehner
What we’re gunna cover today… Quick intro to social media and Web 2.0 How you can use social media and other Web
2.0 tools to help you market and run your meetings, events, conferences
Case study: Australia’s inaugural recruitment and technology conference in Canberra, September 2009
What’s this Web 2.0 stuff? Web 1.0 = ‘one way
web’; reading static web pages
Web 2.0 = ‘two way web’; interaction, community, collaboration
The next big thing: Web 3.0 = personalisation, ‘semantic’ web
Social Media Belongs to the Web 2.0 movement Social media is ‘media designed to be
disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques’
Blogs, micro-blogging, social networking, video/file sharing, wikis, social bookmarking, community sites and more
People and Social Media Three types of social media person:
Social Media Avoiders/Sceptics Social Media Exponents Social Media Wankers
Which one do you think is the best one to be?
The Brainwave Needed a way to promote our online jobs
board in Canberra – how about a big event? The Australian Recruitment and Technology
Conference was born (at least in my mind) Plan: Get the best thinkers from around
Australia and put them all in one place. Get them to talk about the future of talent acquisition and how technology impacts upon it
Rake up all the cash, emigrate to the Bahamas
The Name Righto, sounds like a plan… So, what would be a good name for a
recruitment and technology conference? Thinking, thinking, thinking… Gears turning in head How about….Recruit Tech? Pure genius
Righto, first things first… Secure a domain name…$39 for an Aussie
domain name – www.recruittech.com.au Get some cheap hosting…less than $10 a
month Set up an email address…
info@recruittech.com.au Secure a Twitter handle….@recruittech2009 (Secure a Facebook, MySpace etc handle)
Engaged my network: Email Blog Twitter LinkedIn Skype IM and VOIP Ning ‘Recruitment 2.0’ Group
As an active member and contributor to these networks, I was accorded some ‘cred’
You’ve got to ‘give’ to the community to get something back
Quickly assembled 11 well-known speakers for the conference
Rounding up the speakers…
Time for a logo – enter ‘crowdsourcing’ Post your specification Nominate your prize – about $300 in this case Review the submissions 7 days later Choose your winner You get the design and the IP Bob’s ya uncle
www.99designs.com
The Logo….ta-da About 40 different designs to choose from… Some were rubbish (really rubbish), some
were brilliant
Time to start Tweeting… Everyone has heard of Twitter, right? Fastest growing, hottest social media property
right now? Micro-blogging; 140 character limit – basically
‘SMS on the web’ (but also can be done via mobile device)
You follow people, they follow you; your ‘tweets’ are seen by your followers, you see the ‘tweets’ of people you follow
It’s free, give it a go Some people love it Some people think it is banal trash
What to Tweet Tweet stuff people can ‘use’ Don’t spam Don’t write inane, boring things – ‘I am eating
a pie’ Don’t overdo it – 1-2 tweets a day What we tweeted for RecruitTECH:
Links to blog posts about our speakers Updates on numbers and who was attending Topical issues relating to recruitment and
technology Questions/polls/discussion items Stuff that created ‘momentum’ and anticipation
for the event
Blog Time Anybody got one? Blog = web log In essence, an online journal or diary, ordered
by date Can be setup within minutes online:
Wordpress.com Blogger.com TypePad.com
But it takes dedication and patience! The rule: small contributions often
Centre of the universe – the website RecruitTECH blog = RecruitTECH website Website is the central component of your social
media strategy Blogs are already set up for content syndication Wordpress server-based installation Info about the event – program, speakers, venue Other stuff – plugins and widgets
Twitter plugin AddToAny plugin – digg, delicious,Technorati,
StumbleUpon Feedburner RSS and email subscriptions Online bookings – Paypal ‘Pay Now’ button
RSS RSS - what does it stand for? A ‘push’ method of distribution for new
content Easy to set up from a blog Allows users to receive automatic updates
when content is released RSS feeds generally viewed in RSS readers –
inc. browsers, Outlook Can also distribute to mobile devices and
social networking sites
Bookmarking/Tagging
Time to get a glossy flyer… Me a graphic designer? Nuh-uh Need to outsource again… This time I turn to an outsourcing website…
Other outsourcing websites oDesk Guru.com Serviceseeking.com.au Rent A Coder Virtual Employee
Wikis By now I am accumulating lots of files, images
etc Email just wasn’t cutting it for coordination
with an interstate business partner The answer: a wiki Wassa wiki? Wiki derived from Hawaiian language for
‘quick’ – named after ‘wikiwiki’ buses A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to
enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content
Most commonly known wiki is…
Share files
Add comments
Manage Tasks
Write blog posts
Manage projects
Manage document versioning
Manage access permissions Create and edit pages
Embed spreadsheets
Google-like search
Manage document versioning
Setup ‘watches’ and notifications
Available anywhere
The big day A big success Sold out – 75 people in attendance Some high profile sponsors On time, on budget and made a profit Live Twitter stream on the big screen so
people could interact (be careful!) #recruittech2009 was in the top 3 most
Tweeted topics in Australia for 18 September 2009
Drank lots of beers afterwards
Uploading the video Video is the biggest growth area on the web
as bandwidth and online storage increases Over 20 hours of video every minute is
uploaded to YouTube Video can be done cheaply with a handheld
camcorder Viral impact can bring thousands of visitors to
a website in a short space of time Examples:
Elf Yourself Rickroll’d
Closing the loop with a survey
The cost Most of this stuff is free You can do it for under $1,000 And what would you charge your client? Consider this…
<Enter your business name>’s Social Media Conference Package Professionally designed logo and branding Professionally designed glossy brochure Blog website at www.yourevent.com.au Twitter feed RSS feeds Facebook/MySpace fan pages/groups Wiki space for project management Email subscription and marketing facility Video of event, uploaded to YouTube Images of event, uploaded to Flickr Slides from the event, uploaded to SlideShare Post-event survey Full training and manual for the above
Get him off… This presentation can be found at:www.bluetrainenterprises.com.au/mea
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My details: Website: www.bluetrainenterprises.com.au Email: contact@bluetrainenterprises.com.au Twitter: @bluetrain Skype: bluetrainenterprises I’m also on Facebook, LinkedIn
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