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The 22 Best Virtual Event Platforms

Webbiquity

All types of events, including trade shows and industry conferences, can now be produced and attended remotely. Host virtual conferences, trade shows, job fairs, and more. A tool to manage and produce conferences, workshops, and other virtual events. Total reviews: 339. Average user rating: 9.53 (out of 10). Total reviews: 156.

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How Brands Can Build Online Communities That Aren’t Lame

Contently

“We just really need to build a community around _.” ” This is the fill-in-the-blank cliché that marketers and entrepreneurs bandy around at every tech and marketing conference. On Wednesday, the PandaConf stage was the de facto home to those who had actually built communities. Find your hero.

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Meet your community by hosting an IRL Meetup

Biznology

Reaching out to local communities and stoking fandom in real life. Fans of the show have our own IRC channel and even our own social network on Mastodon. Well, when it came to Goethe, I was trying to make a community of influencers. Remember the money you spent at X conference a couple years ago? This is a thing.

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Social media manager vs. community manager: What’s the difference?

Sprout Social

Does the person who post as your brand on Facebook also work to develop the community that the company is part of? Running a brand’s social media accounts is a lot of work. As the social media industry has evolved, each role in the marketing team has developed along with it. Should they?

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The Ultimate List of Marketing Conferences Through 2019

ClearVoice

Consider this scenario: You are super stoked to attend an upcoming marketing conference. You buy a plane ticket, spend $2,000 on a conference ticket, and another $1,000 on a hotel. But when you get there, the conference sucks. Find the details you need for 20+ top conferences through 2019 all in one place. Converge 2019.

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Three Things Twitter’s Marketing Team Needs to Do

Webbiquity

Though it’s still one of the top three social networks for B2B marketers, Twitter is struggling. Event marketers in particular have been an active segment: virtually every live event, from 90-minute presentations to week-long conferences, now has its own hashtag. Twitter is sort of an always-on, worldwide networking event.

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What vertical networks mean for the future of social media

Sprout Social

Would you rather give that presentation in front of a stadium of random people or a cozy conference room filled with fellow fanatics? This premise is essentially the case for the growing number of vertical networks that are taking off online. Vertical social networks aren’t overnight sensations. it’s a new year.