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.

718-224-5516jspellos@meeting-u.com

www.meeting-u.com twitter.com/jspellos