Technology Trends & Tips Jim Spellos MPI Arizona Sunbelt Chapter April 8, 2010
A Glimpse of the Future…
It’s All About the Phone!
How Do You Prefer to Connect with Your Customers
Top )Google 2)Facebook 3)Yahoo 4)YouTube 5)Wikipedia 6)Blogger 7)eBay 8)Craig’s List 9)MySpace 10)Live/Bing
Let’s Do The Wave! How About Google Buzz? Google’s latest social media offering.
3 Cool Industry Tools Poll Everywhere Spotme VirtualVisit.
Great Couples in Presentation History 1995 – 35mm Projector & Screen 2000 – PPT & LCD 2010 – Prezi & Pico???
How Did We Get Here – A Quick Social Media History SN & BBS’s 1995 – eBay & Craig’s List The New Millenium ‘03 – LinkedIn & MySpace ‘04 – Facebook & Ning ‘06 - Twitter
5 Smart Facebook Practices Presence – Establish Event page Promote - Create PPC ads Interact – Chat, attendee posts Integrate Apps – Polls, RSS social, Eventbrite, Live streaming Update Update Update!!!
Do Ya Tweet? 140 – the magic number What’s a hashtag? How can it be used at events? #Eventprofs – Industry discussion #azmpi – Chapter’s hashtag #Eventprofs – Industry discussion #azmpi – Chapter’s hashtag
Alt-Social-Networking Visible Tweets Eventbrite Delicious Pathable & IntroNetworks. Old school Web 2.0 is still in session – Don’t forget about Blogs & Pods!
5 Things I Bet You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Google Send a survey Customize a home page Text Google Calculator & conversions Search box definitions.
Let’s Get Visual! Bing’s visual search Get your Goggles on! oMoby – Google Goggles for the iPhone!
App-mania Do you like your reality augmented? Who’s the Mayor of Xona? Don’t type it…Swype it! Mashups – Combining 2 web tools to create a new app or service.
Remember - It’s All About the Phone! Runtriz Fonenet Mymobilemeetings. What’s your organization’s mobile strategy? Is your website optimized for the smart phone?
What’s the coolest thing you learned about today?
Thank You! James Spellos, CMP President, Meeting U twitter.com/jspellos