How To Promote An Event Or Conference Using Social Media
10 sure-fire ways to market / promote an event or conference using social Media.
Its a great idea to promote your event on social media. The only thing you have to think before starting to promote is, Are your target participants using social media?
If your answer is yes, then you might use the following methods.
1) Create a new twitter account and start providing updates about the event. Follow people you feel might be interested in your event based on their profile. Don’t start off by following hundreds at a time.
2) Create a special page for your event on facebook and promote the page among relevant groups.
[http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
3) http://upcoming.yahoo.com lets you post about events for free. Post about your event and let people know through yahoo groups.
4) Start a meetup group on http://meetup.meetup.com
5) Publish your event on http://www.eventful.com. Eventful integrates with GPS applications like Where (for iPhone) that displays events close to you, based on your GPS location.
5) Write an informative whitepaper / e-book in pdf and post it to http://scribd.com
6) Make a podcast (informative audio) about your event and
7) Submit press releases to sites like
Make a slideshow with http://slideshare.net and post it.
9) Make a video (or/and screencast) about your event and post it to youtube and other video sharing sites like Revver, Vimeo, Veoh, Blip.tv
10) Write a news/article and submit to relevant sites that allow user/reader submissions.
Last but not least, you can inform your fellow linkedin pros through groups, Q&A.
If you have a website, add a blog and write about the event, so people have a place to get further information / contact you. You could even add a feature to sell tickets on your site/blog, if its a paid event.
Time to show-off/share your ideas. Use the comment box below. Feel free to shoot me if you have any questions.
Good luck,
Shri 
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http://linkedin.com/in/ShriNageshD
Web2.0 Technology Trends 2008
Wikipedia definition of the term “Web 2.0″: It describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web culture communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web. According to Tim O’Reilly:
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform”
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has questioned whether one can use the term in any meaningful way, since many of the technology components of Web 2.0 have existed since the early days of the Web.
ReadWriteWeb.com posted this presentation on 7th Mar’2008 on the Web2.0 technology trends 2008.
Later on 29th May’2008, ReadWriteWeb republished an updated version of the latest web technology trends, 2008.
Its amazing how web2.0 has changed our web experience, the ease of interaction, socializing, communication, broadcasting and data dispensing.
Are you leveraging the power of web2.0 effectively. What are your thoughts?