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.

In case you haven't noticed, I'm a big fan of Dennis Shiao and his blog, It's All Virtual. As the Director of Product Marketing at INXPO, a leading provider of online events and Social Business TV, Dennis is also editor, curator and author of the INXPO blog, Casting Calls.

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. 

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!)

To build relationships with attendees and/or brand ambassadors for your event, it's important that you share information that is relevant, interesting and useful to them. Blogging is one of the best ways to do this while at the same time showcasing your event.

"But what do I write about?" is what most people ask. It may be hard to believe now, but once you start to write on a regular basis, you will find there are an infinite number of event blog topics and the more you write, the easier they will be to find.

Below are 25 ideas to get you started on your event blog.

1. Solicit Thoughts, Ideas for Upcoming Events
Crowd source for real or just gauge interest. This can draw some very useful responses for future posts and for future events.

2. Pictures
Make sure you get lots of photos at all of your events. Photos from previous events help to add interest to your blog and give attendees an idea of what to expect.

3. Profiles of Future Attendees
Attendees appreciate getting to know people before the event. Focusing on attendees helps to let them know they are valued.

4. Interviews of Attendees, Speakers, Organizers
Written interviews can be as easy as emailing 5 or 6 questions to the right person adding an introductory paragraph and posting in question/answer format.

5. Video Interviews of Attendees, Speakers, Organizers
Grab your camera and ask a few questions. Uploading video to blogs has never been easier.

6. Top 10
Reasons to attend, facts about your event topic, ways to network (you get the idea).

If you want to get better publicity for your events, you need to reach out to bloggers, according to Michele Price.

How To Claim Your Business on Facebook Places

Excellent information here from Mashable.  If you want to be found, both brick & morter-wise and online, you need to have your physical location recognized by the most important search engines.  Make sure that your business is on Google places AND follow these steps to ensure you are on Facebook places as well.

I don't remember which of Amit Verma's Modern Life blog posts first caught my attention. What I do remember is that it was inspiring and amazingly insightful and it caused me to want to know more about the writer.

If you haven't yet, you should really check it out.  Alltop collects headlines of the latest stories from the best sites that cover a topic and places them on web pages organized by those topics. 

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