Recently, Corbin Ball shared his expertise regarding meeting curation with Midwest Meetings magazine. He identified six apps that will help spread the word about your meeting, tell a story and/or collect data across social platforms.
I will share in today's blog five of those apps, the number of users on the channel, whether there is a cost involved, what platforms these apps run on, and how they can be scaled up with other interactive technology tool rentals. But first, let's define the term "content curation". Here is a quick definition:
Content curation is the process of collecting, organizing and displaying information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest. People or systems that implement content curation are called curators.
A photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections for an event. Users can browse other boards, "re-pin" images to their own boards, or "like" photos. It is easy to create separate boards for speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and attendees.
Number of Users: 70 Million
Platforms Supported: iPad, iPhone, Android Devices and Desktop
Cost: Free
A slide hosting service that allows users to upload PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or OpenDocument presentations. Slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded into other sites.
Number of Users: 3.5 Million (but may be more due to their acquisition by LinkedIn)
Platform Supported: Desktop
Cost: Free
As an event planner, you can upload the presentations to a Video Wall rental unit, email the presentations to attendees or embed the code into your website. All of these actions are green and will allow your speakers' presentations to grow legs beyond the initial presentation.
Allows you to follow any live conference from anywhere at any time. It allows you to follow conferences on a real-time basis and find videos, presentations, photos and social feeds about that conferences all at one location.
Number of Users: 2.5 Million
Platform Supported: Desktop
Cost: Free
This is a great tool to bring in virtual attendees into the conference, promote your conference and speakers ahead of time, and encourage your speaker to invite folks via their social channels. Potential attendees can register right from this site. In addition, you can use Plasma Displays to show content to attendees outside the meeting room.
