Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Fri, Apr 26, 2013 @ 02:09 PM
If you are an event or meeting planner, your time has come. The age of the Internet has made connecting people together more important than ever and that's exactly what YOU do.
Now I know that things are moving fast these days and we are all very busy, but have you stopped to ponder the tenor of the times in which we live and how it relates to event professionals?
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Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Fri, Feb 15, 2013 @ 12:55 PM
Imagine a beautiful car with no wheels, or a gorgeous home with no doors or windows and you have an idea of the effectiveness of a quality blog with no social media interaction to support it.
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Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Thu, Jan 24, 2013 @ 04:58 PM
The Twitter community for event professionals known as #eventprofs has given birth to a BlogTalkRadio show hosted by Lindsey Rosenthal of Events for Good and Liz King of Liz King Events.
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Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Mon, Oct 29, 2012 @ 08:03 PM
The following is a guest blog article by Lindsay Fultz of LoveIt. If you are interested in guest blogging for Sound n' Sight, please read my guest blogging guidelines. And if you have any thoughts, please comment. Lindsay and I both would love to hear what you have to say!
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Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Wed, Sep 26, 2012 @ 12:28 PM
"My attendees don't do social media." I hear it all the time, though less often as we move more deeply into the 21st century.
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Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Tue, Aug 28, 2012 @ 07:50 PM
What if you could attend an event virtually through a robot that could go where you want to go, see what you want to see and facilitate face to face networking with the people you want to meet?
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Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Tue, Aug 14, 2012 @ 05:56 PM
The following is a guest blog article by Rachel Besonen of Dickens in Lowell. If you are interested in guest blogging for Sound n' Sight, please read my guest blogging guidelines. And if you have any thoughts, please comment. Bob and I both would love to hear what you have to say!
With just about a year of event planning and production experience, I’ve quickly accomplished and learned a lot. One of the things that I have learned is that events are about the experience. In looking at the websites of other event professionals during my job hunt, I have noticed one crucial commonality between them: they all place a heavy emphasis on photos and videos. When I realized that, I also realized that I never simply “looked” at those websites—I experienced them. The most visually stunning have left me breathless, awe-inspired and envious.
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Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Thu, Aug 09, 2012 @ 09:15 AM
A few weeks ago, my friend #eventprofs Community Manager Adrian Segar and I held a Google Hangout On Air to share everything we know about moderating Twitter chats. Between the two of us, we've probably moderated hundreds of them.
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Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Mon, Aug 06, 2012 @ 11:36 AM
Not long ago, my friend Julius Solaris, well known for founding the 85,000 member Event Planning & Management Group on LinkedIn and for his EventManagerBlog, shared a tool with me that he has created for event bloggers: the Event Manager Theme.
It's a responsive WordPress blog theme specifically designed for people using a blog to market an event. I was impressed and would certainly purchase it if I were planning a new event. (I wish I'd had it for Event Camp Europe!)
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Posted by Jenise Fryatt on Thu, Jul 19, 2012 @ 11:04 AM
UPDATE: The time for our "Hangout about Moderating Twitter Chats" is now scheduled for 12 pm est, July 24, NOT 3 pm pst.
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