Online Event Communities

Picture the reception area of your event. Some attendees are flipping through the program to pick out their next breakout session. A few attendees cluster around a popular speaker to discuss his presentation. Another group shares copies of the handouts from a session they loved. And the exhibitors mingle and smile, sharing industry insights from their perspectives.

Now imagine that scene happening weeks before and weeks after your three-day event.

With a Conference 2.0 Online Event Community, your industry’s professionals can gather online to discuss ideas, access resources, share content and make connections. We build it around your events to give year-round life to your organization’s most important gatherings.

Your online event community will:

• Create connections by helping attendees network and find others with similar interests
• Spark conversations between attendees and with speakers and exhibitors
• Engage, engage, engage with a central hub for education and networking before, during and after the event
• Save time for participants by helping them create a personalized event itinerary and even a list of people to meet
• Give exhibitors with increased visibility and more opportunities to stand out

"I'm impressed with the Conference 2.0™ feature that lets you connect with speakers ahead of time as well as to ask questions afterward."

President - Wendy Soucie Consulting (Social Media)

Live Events Meets Technology

Your Online Event Community is the logical upgrade to the live events you put on every year and the online resources you offer your members and attendees year round. It’s the perfect marriage of the things attendees love about live events and the technology-driven environment in which we live.

Broken down, your Event Community is:

• Your library
• A conference planner
• Your industry trend analyst
• Your hottest marketing campaign
• Your best networking tool
• Your social media aggregator
• Your year-round community
• Your super-secret revenue source

Live Event Communities

The best way to learn about how other organizations are using Event Communities is to see for yourself!

Jump into this live sites to see it in action.

• National Association of School Nurses
  The medical industry community engaged over 825 members. It boasts a interactive program and personalized itinerary builder.

View our entire portfolio

Making the Most of Your Online Event Community

We know you're probably not a online event community pro... That's Ok. It's our job to get your site set up and you feeling comfortable before we shift into high gear.

We'll brand your conference community site so it strengthens your association brand. We'll coordinate with you and your registration system to import contact information for your attendees, speakers, exhibitors and sponsors into the platform. Then, we’ll give you the grand tour. A big part of the success of an Event Community is teaching you how to maintain energy and excitement for your participants. We will guide you through ideas (Big Ideas, even!) that will set you up for an active, engaged community.

Engaging Your Participants is Critical

Your Event Community is more than a web site that aggregates information about your event. We provide a communications and engagement plan that drives attendee interaction and conversation.

Match Making

Our platform matches like-minded people using "tags" (such as “meeting planning” or “marathoner” or “SEO expert”) that your participants assign to themselves when completing their profiles. Attendees can even connect with sponsors and exhibitors through "tags" and the exhibitor directory.

Education Central

Not only is your Event Community a repository for all your resources, we provide attendees the ability to find and download content through the agenda of sessions as well as through a powerful, full-text search engine. Plus, you can give community members the ability to upload and share resources of their own.

Learning from Your Community

By providing a single community for attendees, speakers and sponsors to network and access session materials, you can learn more about your audience.

• Who's engaged
• What sessions are popular
• What topics people are interested in
• How your attendees value content