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Social Media Roundup: Add Google+ To Your Event-Planning Strategy

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— LBI (@LBIAudioVideo) April 10, 2013. This means that when someone goes to Google and searches ‘Event Planner’ they are first seeing the accounts which rate highest on Google—many of those rating higher because they are posting on their Google+ pages,” Nicolette Anderson explains on BusyEvent.

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Social Media Roundup: A Different Generation Gap

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Study shows gen X and gen Y bring different mindsets and expectations to events and conferences. Also: When do you start adding social media into your event planning? Trend Report by @ amsterdamrai says Gen Y & X are becoming important to the event industry ow.ly/kl9FR — JPdL(@JPdLEvents) April 23, 2013.

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Social Media Roundup: Email Marketing 101

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Also: Create a strategy to ensure that you don’t run out of food at your next event. Then it might be time to revisit your email marketing strategy. — BrightBull (@BrightBull) July 3, 2013. — BrightBull (@BrightBull) July 3, 2013. — Beth Sanborn (@FarFromCamelot) July 3, 2013.

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Social Media Roundup: Lessons From Jeff Bezos’ Leadership Style

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— Amith Nagarajan (@AmithNagarajan) April 15, 2013. — Jenise Fryatt (@JeniseFryatt) April 15, 2013. To stay relevant in the event-planning field, you must constantly reinvent your conferences to align with industry changes. ” What strategies do you have for reinventing your events? (ht

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Social Media Roundup: How Paid Distribution Can Push Your Content Further

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A tech giant shows how to lead the way on content strategy through the clever use of paid distribution. Paying to advertise your content may seem crazy to some—for one thing, organic reach is way cheaper—but if your strategy is well-focused, it doesn’t have to be quite so painful. Now that’s strategy in action. (ht

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Building Your Conference Community Drip By Drip

Velvet Chainsaw

If you don’t provide a drip by drip conference content strategy. If you don’t provide a way to drip out important content and take aways, you have to start fresh each year convincing your customers that they should come to your event. That’s where a post-conference drip-content strategy helps.

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Confirmation Bias And Why Conferences Need To Become Innovation Labs

Velvet Chainsaw

Strategies that once delivered solid results are sputtering in today’s change-charged marketplace. Adapted from Donna’s Meeting Innovation post on Cvent’s Event Planning blog. If they’re credible, we may listen for a bit, but then it’s back to our safe havens where everyone nods in agreement.