Special Thanks this week to:

Dan Parks uses his training in Computer Science to enhance his company’s list of services by expanding meeting industry options, supporting such clients in both worlds including Trend Micro, L’Oreal, Saint Gobain, Microsoft, TelePacific, Cable & Wireless to name a few.

He is a New Media, Virtual Meetings & New Technology Consultant. An Extreme Early Adopter, who predicted the important changes the meeting industry would be making with new security issues and financial restraints imposed on all business.

His company integrates innovative social networking elements in events and meetings for their clientele, which has placed them in preferred positioning in the meeting, events and travel management arenas.

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It’s Official!Using Twitter at Meetings and Conferences Improves Attendee Learning and Engagement

Education Professor Christine Greenhow, Michigan State University, conducted a study on Twitter as a new form of literacy. Her results showed that adults who tweet during a class and as part of the instruction:

• are more engaged with the course content• are more engaged with the instructor• are more engaged with other students• and have higher grades than the other students.

“Tweeting can be thought of as a new form of literacy,” Greenhow said. “The students get more engaged because they feel it is connected to something real, that it’s not just learning for the sake of learning. It feels authentic to them.”

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We’ve found that most event organizers struggle to sell out their events. This problem occurs largely because traditional marketing strategies like paid advertisements and email blasts are no longer effective. People hear about events through their friends; people attend events with their friends. That’s why we build Planana – to help event organizers leverage social media to promote and sell out their events.

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