refreshing social media
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This guide has been made with the double purpose to give instructions on how to use social media for and at the Fresh Conference as well as to give some examples and tips for your own conference social media strategy. Social Media for meetings and events are immediate channels that drive the conversation through networked collaboration and active participation. While most meeting and events organizers use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest and all the other channels to share information about their conferences, we decided to ask to our community to become the evangelists for the Fresh Conference.TRANSCRIPT
Using Social Media for and at The FRESH Conference13-15 January 2013
reFRESHing social media
Guidelines for The FRESH Conference CommunityTeam, speakers, sponsors, participants, supporters...
Social Media for meetings and events:
The Fresh Conference is an annual conference dedicated to meeting professionals.
This guide has been made with the double purpose to give instructions on how to use social media for and at the Fresh Conference as well as to give some examples and tips for your own conference social media strategy.
Social Media for meetings and events are immediate channels that drive the conversation through networked collaboration and active participation.
While most meeting and events organizers use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest and all the other channels to share information about their conferences, we decided to ask to our community to become the evangelists for the Fresh Conference.
The FRESH Conference Community is a group of:
a skilled and passionate international team
influential thought leaders as speakers
the most innovative companies connected to the meeting industry as sponsors
a tribe of meeting and event professionals.
You can join us, personally attending our annual conference or at the main conferences and trade-shows (FRESH Dinners) and virtually through social media.
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Our Social Media strategy
The aim of this guide is to give the right information to our community on how to use social media to interact with us and with the other members to share their info, but also to share our case with other meeting professionals to provide food for thoughts and to receive feedbacks.
Reading this guide you will find several social media profiles.We chose to dedicate some social media channels (profiles and pages)
to the meeting owner, the Meeting Support Institute and
some others specifically to the FRESH Conference.
We did it to become more “findable” and to facilitate relevant and valuable interaction with our colleagues.
So don’t worry about who to follow, choose the communication channel that best fits your preferences.
Suggestions for your conference
First of all create a website, a blog or a landing page for your conference.
Then add the social media buttons in a visible place of the main page to facilitate your visitors to like, follow or share your conference. Then set up all the social media profiles according to your audience preferences and your conference objectives.
Differentiate the content shared in the social media channels as much as possible and do it in different moments, depending also on the
different time zones of your audience.
Linkedin for conference
How can you use itLinkedIn is the most important social network for meeting professionals. With 85 million LinkedIn users, we can assume that virtually the majority you want to connect with in the Meeting Industry is there. For conferences Linkedin is a superb tool.
Steps to take1. Set up a Linkedin profile for the meeting owner and create a community
connecting with the target audience of your conference.
2. Set up a company page for the meeting owner and promote it posting an update about it even throughout other social media.
3. Create a product for your conference in your company page. You can link the website, add a promotion with a discount code or a prize and do not forget to ask for a recommendation by your speakers, sponsors, previous year attendees or team and supporter. Visit ours: http://linkd.in/SRGYZS
4. Join Linkedin groups focused on topics related to your conference and joined by the target you selected as your future attendees (remember to respect the etiquette of not posting promotional updates in groups. Share only valuable information of interest for the specific group).
Our profile is: MEETING SUPPORT INSTITUTE
Interact with us!Scan the QRcode or simply click the links to connect with us or follow us.
You can connect with the Meeting Support Institute Linkedin profile here:http://www.linkedin.com/in/meetingsupportinstitute
And follow the Meeting Support Institute company page here:http://www.linkedin.com/company/meeting-support-institute
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Linkedin tips:
Connect with our Linkedin profile or follow our business page: there you will find some of the most important updates and news we share.
Suggest and re-share all the contents that are valuable for you or for your network.
Recommend to us interesting meeting and event professionals to connect with and introduce Meeting Support Institute to those meeting professionals you think can be interested in what we do.
If you think it is useful, in the business page of the Meeting Support Institute recommend the Fresh Conference, you can find it in the products section.
We are part of many Linkedin groups related to the Meeting Industry. Support us by sharing the news or commenting our discussions in your specific groups.
Twitter for conference
How can you use itFor conferences, Twitter is today one of the most popular and effective tools in spreading the message beyond the meeting itself.
Steps to take1. Set up a Twitter profile for the conference (140 characters) and make it
informative even if it is short. 3 info are essentials: date of the conference, place and website.
2. Create a community connecting with the target audience of your conference and share useful content with it (not only promotion!).
3. Create a hashtag for your conference (simply writing #conferencename in a tweet, like #FRESH13). Use it in all the tweets you send and invite your twitter tribe to use it for joining the conversation.
4. Use the hashtag to follow what people say about your conference and interact with them, to obtain analytics or to keep your attendees informed with a twitter wall.
5. Give credits to your supporters, speakers and sponsors including their account in the text of your tweets and retweet them.
Twitter Follow
FRESH CONFERENCE:
@freshconferenceThis account is dedicated to the FRESH conferenceYou can connect clicking here:twitter.com/Freshconference
or scanning here:
@freshconference profile
or scanning here:
@msimeetings profile
MEETING SUPPORT:
@msimeetingsThis account is dedicated to the Meeting Support InstituteYou can connect clicking here: twitter.com/MSImeetings
Twitter tips:
Tweet about and with the Fresh Conference using the official hashtag #FRESH13 and our accounts @freshconference @msimeetings; we are always available.
Retweet all the info we share that are useful to you, but don’t do it immediately, if you wait 1hr or more you enlarge the audience significantely
Mention us in your #FF Follow Fridays or create a list “cool conferences to attend” ;) and add us!
Recommend to us interesting meeting and event professionals to follow
Use also other hashtags while tweeting about FRESH to engage other eventprofs. Examples : #eventprofs # m e e t i n g p ro f s # M P I # P C M A # m e e t i n g p l a n n e r s #eventplanners as well as the event/tradeshow happening at that moment eg. #EIBTM25.
Let’s have a conversation!
#FRESH13
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Facebook for conference
How can you use itFor many meeting professionals Facebook is mostly a personal social media. However, for conferences, they love to use it to stay tuned with all the content to share: they also reshare useful links and they love to tag themselves in the event pictures.
Steps to take1. Set up a Facebook page and/or an event page for the conference
2. With your personal account, invite your meeting profs friends to like your page or share it as your profile status.
3. Be sure to link the social media buttons of your conference website to the facebook page.
4. Allow comments to everyone but moderate the posts of other Facebook users to your wall.
5. Share valuable content possibly different from what you shared in the other social media. Do not TAG anyone in the pictures you share, on the contrary ask them to TAG themselves. Engage!
Our page is: MEETING SUPPORT INSTITUTETo be informed and updated about the latest news you can LIKE THE PAGE here:
www.facebook.com/pages/Meeting-Support-Institute/304309966344329
if you prefer to be a “true MSI friend” connect here: www.facebook.com/meetingsupportinstitute
We also have a Facebook event:
THE FRESH CONFERENCEwww.facebook.com/events/219660344832914
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MSI Facebook page
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The FRESH Event Facebook page
Facebook tips:
Support our updates liking and re-sharing them when you think they are interesting or useful.
Invite those meeting and eventprofs friends you think could be interested in what we do or in confirming their participation to the Facebook event.
Recommend to us other connections of colleagues who could be interested in attending the Fresh Conference
Post news, pictures and videos about you and the Fresh Conference on our wall.
Share your most memorable moments before, during and after the Fresh Conference and tag yourself.
Are you a speaker or a sponsor? You can post videos, abstracts and previews of your FRESH presentation or about your company.
Engage the community with quiz, polls and games.
Google+ for conference
How can you use itFor many meeting professionals Facebook is mostly a personal social media. However, for conferences, they love to use it to stay tuned with all the content to share: they also reshare useful links and they love to tag themselves in the event pictures.
Steps to take1. With your personal account set up a Google+ page and/or an event page for
the conference and share it with your meeting profs circles.
2. A page cannot add to a circle a personal profile. Google+ has the same limits as a Facebook page; therefore be sure to link the social media buttons in your conference website.
3. Create a Community for your conference and interact with the members: open hangouts to discuss and share info and to receive useful input from meeting professionals. Keep it alive!
4. Share useful and unique content, interact with members, +1 their good posts and moderate your space.
Google+
Our page is: MEETING SUPPORT INSTITUTETo be informed and updated about the latest news you can add to your CIRCLES THE PAGE here: plus.google.com/u/0/103947607566331856243/about
Join The FRESH Conference Google+ Communityplus.google.com/u/1/communities/100014935488480502194
This Google+ Community is for people that are professionally active in designing effective meetings. It is the place where we can discuss, meet and connect with other meeting professionals about the Fresh Conference and meeting design.
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the Meeting Support Institute page
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the FRESH Conference Community
Google+ tips:
Support our updates giving “+1” (the same as the “like” button in Facebook) and re-share them when you think they are interesting or useful.
Invite other meeting and event professionals to join the conversation adding the the Meeting Support Institute page to their circles or to be member of the Fresh Conference community.
If you are already a member of our community share your experience and expertise with the other members, keeping the conversation alive.
Post news, pictures and videos about your most memorable moments before, during and after the Fresh Conference.
Our speakers and sponsors are welcome to share content about their FRESH presentation or about their companies.
Engage the community with quiz, polls and games.
Pinterest for conference
How can you use itPinterest is a pinboard-style social photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies, and more. Pinterest drive a lot of traffic to your conference website.
Steps to take1. Set up your conference “business profile” adding an effective description
with the date of the event, the logo, the website and the location.
2. Create well-organized and relevant “boards”; categorize them according to the needs of your conference and include descriptions with keywords. We have one board for The FRESH Conference news, one dedicated to our sponsors, one for the past edition of the conference and one for the social media posts.
3. Create a network following other meeting professionals Pinterest users or their boards and start pinning and re-pinning. See also the Pinterest etiquette.
4. You can pin (pin is a share button) a website adding a pin button to your browser bookmarks bar. Some social media content and non-html websites are not pinnable.
Pinterest Our account is: THE FRESH CONFERENCE
You can follow us and our boards here: http://pinterest.com/freshconference
At the moment we have 4 boardsFRESH Conference NEWSFRESH Conference Social Media postsFresh Conference SponsorsFresh Conference - past edition (January 2012)
...and of course pin us and re-pin our pins you like!
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the FRESH ConferencePinterest profile
Vimeo and YouTube for conferences
How can you use itYoutube and Vimeo are powerful channels to share video contents.They have the double function to give you visibility and to enlighten the sharing of bulky content. You can embed videos in your website and share in other social media a simple link to this content.
Steps to take1. Set up your Youtube and/or Vimeo channel with logo, description and link to
your website
2. Upload your content. You can share:
Interviews with speakers and preview of their presentation before the the conference
The presentation speakers give at the conference and other video comments
Partners and sponsors promotional videos and interviews
VimeoOur channel is: MEETING SUPPORT INSTITUTETo see the video we upload visit: vimeo.com/msimeetings
YouTube
Our channel is: MEETING SUPPORT INSTITUTE
To see the video we upload visit: www.youtube.com/user/MeetingSupport
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Slideshare for conferences
How can you use itYou can use SlideShare to share any presentation files or documents related to the conference. You can then embed them in your event website and/or share the link in other social media.
Steps to take1. Set up your Slideshare with logo, description and link to your website
2. Collect all the slides from the speakers attending your conference, presentations from your partners and sponsors, any other useful abstracts or documents and upload them to SlideShare space.
3. Link social media channels among them. For example in your Linkedin profile you can show the slides you’ve uploaded in your Slideshare channel.
4. Embed the slides in your conference website and promote the page on the other social media channels.
SlideshareOur account is: MEETING SUPPORT INSTITUTE
You will see the slides of our speakers soon after their presentation and download or read the documents we share like this guide:
Click and follow:www.slideshare.net/MeetingSupportInstitute
if you follow us you will receive an alert every time we upload something new.
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The Fresh Conference will take place in Copenhagen, 13-15 January 2013 + 1 optional day of training the 16th.
If you can come, don’t miss it.If you cannot come, attend it remotely connecting to:
www.thefreshconference.com
Thank you for downloading the guide: your prize is a 20% discount on the registration fee using this code: smc-FRESH13-buyer-20%
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