Ike Singh of Social 27 writes a very in-depth post about How to Use Social Media Before, During and After Your Virtual Event. The tips are related to audience acquisition, engagement, and relationship management.
If you’re an association planner, don’t let the fact that Ike Singh Kehal wrote this article for corporate planners stop you from reading it. There are some excellent tips here on using the tools virtual events offer to actively listen to your customers.
http://bit.ly/hwvFws
This guest post on SocialFish by Rich Finstein, CEO of CommPartners, gives six good tips for stimulating interest and engagement during Webinars. Most of the speakers we’ve seen online need help – doesn’t matter how good your content is if you lose everyone before you can present it.
http://bit.ly/et3WeZ
Though you’ll get more out of this if you pop for the $25 bucks and buy the audio version from PCMA, this is a great presentation from Jeff Hurt on audience engagement for hybrid and virtual events. Told mostly through the best practices at EventCamp, this covers social media, speaker training, blending remote and f2f audiences and logistics.
http://jeffhurtblog.com/2010/03/05/engaging-attendees-today-how-to-combine-virtual-face-to-face-meetings/
While this is primarily a blog post by Michael McCurry about a specific hybrid event and what went wrong/what went right, there are some great, quick learning lessons at the end on the essentials of hybrid event planning.
http://www.michaelmccurry.net/2010/02/26/learning-lessons-from-a-hybrid-event-experience-mpis-md10-conference/
