I’m here in Seattle this week presenting at a conference on business blogging. It seems that I have been doing a large amount of traveling recently. This trend continues as it looks like i will be traveling to Miami in December to present on a panel at the IAEE about using social media to promote your trade show or convention. This is becoming a more popular way of promoting conventions, events and trade shows. People are using applications like blogging, YouTube, and other web applications that are consider social media tools. I’ll be talking with other industry leaders in the social media field on the panel to discuss how you can promote a convention or trade show using the tools available. Lots of convention and event planners are scrambling to get the upper hand in getting attendees and exhibitors to learn more about their event and the facilities where there event will be held. It should be a well attended session.
The event in December is well known to industry people involved in conventions and trade shows. The International Association of Exhibitions and Events Expo Expo is set to be held on December 9-11, 2008 in Miami, Florida at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Registration is set to open August 4, 2008. This is one of the largest events or the convention industry and if you decide to go, look me up! I’ll be looking for you too.
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July 18th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Jim is right on target! In four months we are launching a Mega-Portal Social Networking/E-Commerce website that is currently over 10,000 pages. It is ‘interest specific’ in content and contains a virtual convention center (exactly as you would enjoy one on the ground), web-inars, blogging opportunities, video promo areas for product events and new releases, etc. This IS the way to get the word out to captive audiences for interest specific conventions, seminars, workshops and tourism related gatherings