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Technology Trends & Tips
Jim SpellosMPI 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 10 - 2010
1) 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 ListThe 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
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, CMPPresident, Meeting U.
www.meeting-u.com twitter.com/jspellos