So, you’ve managed to net yourself an industry expert speaker or two who’s interested in speaking at your event. Working with guest speakers can be complicated—you need to sign contracts, negotiate payment, AND give them their freedom (while also steering them to remain relevant to your event). In short, the next step is to ask yourself how you can avoid making them hate you before you’ve even begun.
Back in the 1960s, sociologist Marshall McLuhan expressed some downright revolutionary insights. Technology, he explained, would one day advance in such a way that the whole world would be interconnected. Communicating with someone on another continent would be just as simple as walking over to the neighbors’ house to borrow a cup of sugar; perhaps more so. To give shape to his theory, he coined the term “global village.” In essence, McLuhan conceived the notion of a worldwide communications network; a tight-knit global community which transcended physical distance. With the birth of social media, it’s safe to say that his…
Today, we’re very excited to announce something that we’ve been working on and have been looking forward to announcing for quite some time—Tweetwall (now named Everwall) and Eventbrite have partnered!
Both Tweetwall, and Eventbrite are determined to make your events the best they can possibly be, for us, it’s about making events more social and engaging, and for Eventbrite, it’s by making it easy for your attendees to register and attend your event.
It’s no secret that events are social in nature. Whatever the event may be, tens, hundreds or thousands of people are gathering together to interact and learn about a specific cause, idea or business. What’s changing about the event industry is the rise and influence of social media. We’ve come up with a few tips to make your event more social, and increase interaction in the virtual world. 1) Create a #hashtag for your event You always need to have a unique hashtag for your events—it’s no longer an option to not have one. There are many ways to come…
Hello all, Joel here, the founder and CEO of Tweetwall Everwall (See: the Tweetwall name change announcement). I just wanted to quickly post a little bit about what this blog is, what kind of content will be on it, and what our goals are for it—a manifesto of sorts, if you will. The events industry is huge, multi-billion dollar huge, but since starting Tweetwall in 2008 what we’ve noticed is that even though the industry is huge, there’s not a whole lot of content out there catered to helping event managers make their events more social and engaging. This blog…
