the original social: an etouches product
DESCRIPTION
eSocial is part of the etouches’ Pro line and provides attendees with a centralized website in which to connect with other attendees before, during and after the event. The eSocial site allows attendees to see who else is coming, schedule appointments and message one another. Event planners can use eSocial for hosted buyer programs and matchmaking, while event marketers can offer the site as a sponsorship opportunity and include banner ads and other sponsor-specific branding elements. eSocial can be used to support any networking program and can allow attendees to opt into pre-designed networking activities, as well as allow attendees to create their own.TRANSCRIPT
Introducing eSocial: the original socialSuzanne Carawan
Vice President, Global Marketing etouches
The Original Social
• Networking
• Education
• Events are about people!
The Original Burden
• Organizers and planners forced to try and make people connect
• Mindset focused on logistics
• Mindset focused on creating environment with:
Education
Food & Beverage
Fun Activities
• No time to focus on the people and no tools!
eSocial: Facilitating Connections
• Social + mobile (mocial) has led to an increased need for live events
• Facilitating connections is time consuming
• eSocial allows organizations to become the facilitator to provide a new value to event attendees by providing a self-serve method of connecting people together
eSocial: The Umbrella
• eSocial’s structure sets the stage for new social tools to be bundled in and interactions to take place from centralized etouches’ interface
• etouches’ extending past logistics and into new ways to increase user experience
• Post on pre, during and post
What Is This
PRODUCT DEFINITION
Use Case: Attendee
• See who’s coming
• Set up meetings and small group outings before the event starts
• Look at one place for total schedule
• Use eSocial for one place to request/accept program-based (organization-driven) and personally-based invites
Use Case: Administrator
• Facilitate professional and personal meetings between various attendee groups that participate in the event
• Allow attendees to easily connect before/during/after the show without giving away directory list
• One centralized place for “people interaction”
• New opportunities for revenue
What Does eSocial Do?
4 Main Pieces that Make eSocial Special:
• Drag-n-Drop Interface
• Directories
• Personal Schedule
• Message Center
Drag-n-Drop Interface
• Move towards standardization of eHome UI across product line
• Allows you to add pages and modify page layouts (right/left columns, header/footer)
• Reorder and edit pages
• Pull in dynamic content from eSocial (e.g. Messages) and static HTML content
• More opportunities to customize/personalize site and sell off sponsor space, etc!
Directories
• Default Attendee Directory:
Decide which fields to show
Decide how to filter & set visibility
• New! Create-your-own Directory using filters and setting visibility based on attendee categories
Personal Schedule
• Updated schedule interface will display:
Personal selections made in eReg
Meetings requested or accepted
Blocked/reserved times
Message Center
• Following selecting person/people within directory, can request meeting
• Email templates are used to send invites and invitee may accept/deny/tentatively accept with comments
• eSocial offers one place to pick up messages and respond
• New! One-to-many invites for meeting types approved for that attendee category
Let’s See It
DEMO
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions and please visit
www.etouches.com for more information, our webinar archives
and to sign up for demos & free trial accounts.
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Global Marketing & PR
Suzanne Carawan
Vice President, Global Marketing
Direct: 1-203-403-9013
email: [email protected]
Twitter: @suzannecarawan
LinkedIn: /suzannecarawan
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