Webinar #3 Digital Tools

Webinar #3
Digital Tools: Using
Event Tech to Enhance
Attendee & Exhibitor
Experience
Technology Opportunities
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Venue Sourcing
Meeting Design
Lead Retrieval
Marketing & Promotion
Social Media
Mobile Event Apps
Registration & Ticketing
Attendee Engagement
Live Streaming
Event Surveys
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Venue Sourcing
ON-SITE – A sales acceleration and lead generation software that allows
customers to visualize meeting space.
EVENTUP – A comprehensive marketplace for event venues providing
access to locations of all types nationwide.
LIQUID SPACE – a workspace ecosystem at your fingertips.
Locate, book, check-in and share great spaces to work, wherever you are.
CVENT – Offers software solutions to event planners for online event
registration, venue selection, event management, mobile apps for events,
e-mail marketing and web surveys.
LANYON STARCITE – Offers advanced Strategic Meetings Management
(SMM) software for companies.
EVENUES – Develops, aggregates, and operates an online
public marketplace and booking service for meeting, event and unique
spaces.
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Meeting Design & Layout
ROOM VIEWER – Offers quick, easy and cost effective ways to prepare
event diagrams.
VIVIEN – An intuitive, 3D event design & planning software for event
professionals.
SMART DRAW – Helps organizations of any size save time
and achieve bottom-line results by providing easy-to-make charts, graphs
and diagrams.
PARTY CAD 12 – A 3D event design software for the Windows operating
system.
SOCIAL TABLES – The leading provider of cloud-based hospitality
software that positions venues to work more collaboratively and efficiently
with their event and meeting customers.
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Lead Retrieval
BARTIZAN CONNECTS – Their iLeads app is a cloud based tradeshow
lead capture app that lets you digitally collect and manage information
from all of your trade show sales interactions using your own smartphone
or tablet.
iCapture – Works on any mobile device for lead capture, badge scanning,
business card scanning, drawings & giveaways and more. Integrates with
many automation tools like Constant Contact, MailChimp, Salesforce,
Infusionsoft and others.
G2Planet – The event lead generation and management tool can gather
data from any type of attendee badge and can be used in trade show as
well as sports or culture events environments.
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Marketing & Promotion
FEATHR– Digital tools for event sales & marketing. Provides analytics,
promotion and monetization.
LANYRD – Allows you to add events, discover new and exciting
conferences and track your friends to see what events they are attending.
EVENTKLOUD – distributes personalized content, encourages
engagement & utilizes data-driven audience intelligence to make your
event marketing campaigns consistently smarter.
BRANDSCOPIC – Captures event recaps and media from your field staff
or integrates with advanced capture technologies.
SPINGO – Combines research by event specialists with user-submitted
content to produce a robust and comprehensive event search engine.
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Social Media
TWEETWALL – Full service Social Media Wall provider including
comprehensive moderation, customization, sponsorship and advertising
options for meetings and events.
POSTANO – A social media aggregation and display platform.
EVENTIFIER – Collates all the event related content from various social
media streams.
TINT – A self-service platform that allows organizations to
create social hubs in minutes.
HOOTSUITE – A social media dashboard to manage and measure your
social networks.
BONFYRE – A free application that allows users to
create private networks, share photos and send messages to others.
TAGBOARD – Uses hashtags to search for and collect public social media
within seconds of being posted to networks like Twitter and Facebook.
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Mobile Event Apps
• CROWD COMPASS
• CORE APPS
• DOUBLE-DUTCH
• EVENTBASE
• EVENT EDGE
The Event App Bible
http://www.eventmanagerblog.com/free-ebook-event-mobile-apps/
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Registration & Ticketing
EVENTBRITE – An online ticketing service that enables users to create,
promote, and sell tickets for events.
EVENTJOY – A mobile-first ticketing company that is redefining how people
organize and experience events.
TICKETBUD – An online event registration and ticketing service that puts all
event organizers in complete control of how they pay for the ticketing of their
event.
TICKETLEAP – An online ticketing platform enabling event organizers to sell,
market and manage their events in one place.
EVENTBEE – Provides web-based event management software that enables
maximum ticket sales to event managers.
THUNDERTIX – An event ticketing software and box office management
system.
CVENT – An event management platform enabling planners to manage all
aspects of an event, including registration.
XING EVENTS – Offers conference and seminar organisers event
management software for online ticketing and event registration.
REGONLINE – An event management software solution for organizing
events, meetings and conferences.
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Attendee Engagement
FEATHR – Helps conference organizers and attendees connect, network, and
keep in touch with speakers and other attendees.
Thuzi – Their Event Pass platform seamlessly covers the full experiential
marketing spectrum, from pre-event registration through comprehensive inevent consumer engagement strategies including mobile applications and
social media amplification. They provide brands and event owners an
optimized platform for full data and content asset leverage of the experience
both during and long after the event.
LIVECUBE – Utilizes engagement technology to motivate audiences with
points, badges and real-world rewards.
INXPO – Helps brands interact with employees, customers, prospects and
partners in a social environment by creating a two-way dialogue.
SLI.DO – A web application for speakers and event organizers to engage
their audience with real-time questions, comments and polls.
SOCIALTAGG – An integrated event platform redefining how people check
into and network at events.
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Live Streaming
PERISCOPE – Allows your attendees to broadcast live video of your event
from their phones to their followers.
LIVESTREAM – A live video-streaming platform, allows users to watch, like
and share live events via a suite of hardware and software tools.
6CONNEX – Software designed for virtual destinations that enables virtual
trade shows, events, and career fairs.
ON24 – Provides webinars, webcasting and virtual event services and
solutions.
CINCECAST – Provides cloud-based conferencing and webcasting solutions
to produce and share size- independent original file content.
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Event Surveys
EXHIBIT SURVEYS, INC. – Exhibit Surveys continues to be the leader and
innovator in the field, with a complete range of measurement and research
services to fit the evolving needs clients of all sizes over a broad spectrum of
industries. We also maintain the most comprehensive database of audience
profile and exhibit performance statistics.
SURVEYMONKEY – A cloud-based online survey and questionnaire tool that
helps users gather survey-related information.
SNAP SURVEYS – Providers of survey software and feedback management
solutions.
QUALTRICS – Industry-leading provider of Online Survey Software.
TYPEFORM – A cloud-based application for users to create and respond to
surveys and other types of forms on any device.
SURVEYGIZMO – An online survey software tools platform enabling
researchers to build forms, collect data and analyze.
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Beacon Technology
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Smart Networking
Triggered Audience Response
Automated Session Check-In and CEU Tracking
Opt-In Lead Exchange & Information Acquisition
Exhibitor Booth Heat Mapping
Automated Onsite Registration
Second Screen Engagement
Poken.com
Tapcentive.com
Loopd.com
http://www.eventmanagerblog.com/using-beacons-event-experience
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A Seamless Platform
of Tools & Technology
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Features
Benefits
Key Takeaways
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Event Technology is only valuable if
people are engaging with it
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Keep the human element at the forefront
Use technology to build a bridge
between between attendees, exhibitors
and your organization
http://bit.ly/event_tech_tools
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Richard Anderson
randerson@shepardes.com
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