The concept of community is everywhere. It's why Engage365 was started. It's how we build rapport with our peers and colleagues, exchange ideas, collaborate and work toward goals. Community is something that shows up everywhere, in our personal and professional lives, and is relevant to people across all industry verticals. Having a champion to help shape, guide and encourage your community's conversations and content is something that many organizations think about, but often don't put enough effort...
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The Engage365 community is officially relaunched!
We've been hard at work giving Engage365 a makeover and are so excited to dive back into being a resource for event and association professionals! We want to keep our valued (and growing!) membership informed on what is changing, and what you can expect to stay the same.
What’s New
A brand new look and logo! You may have noticed Engage365’s visual makeover. The community’s ready for its close up, Mr. DeMille.
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Recently at Facebook’s f8 Conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced, with great fanfare, that major changes are on the way. The social network — now 800 million users strong — promises to create a seamless experience where self-expression, discovery, and shared real-time experience are the goal.
The announcement came after Facebook activated a handful of new features earlier in the week. Today we’ll take a look at the more significant new features, and what they mean from a personal user standpoint. We're al...
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Business networking before social media was tough work.
You typically ended up with a stack of business cards in hand, with the challenge of determining your next best actions – who to follow up with and how.
Soon after getting back to your office the phone rings and you are off the hook. You settle back into your comfort zone of taking care of day-to-day matters.
And you feel good about it because you can now rationalize your actions.
LinkedIn can be another form of rationalization. You make connections and ...
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Turning friends and followers into conference attendees or webinar registrants rarely happens through passive engagement. The best way to earn registrations with social media is to solve your audiences' problems in ways that create desire, entice them to take action. Successful engagement is planned—carefully mapped out to connect your target market's desires to what your event delivers.
The Engagement Myth
If you’re like most meeting and event planners, you're struggling to turn Facebook fans ...
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In 2010, at MPI WEC, I unknowingly became the #1 tweeter in Vancouver, BC when I had no cell phone access and only wifi. The side benefits were hyper-networking by meeting people and gaining fans and trust with people I didn’t meet. Here’s the top 10 tips from my experience that I’m applying here at the GMIC conference.
Find Power - bring an extension card and a power strip and you’ll make a LOT of friends.
Connect to Wifi - When you walk into new venues, jump through the hoops to connect to wifi or br...
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