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Among the more successful Social Networking sites is LinkedIn, which is like a professionals’ version of Facebook (more business oriented, less social). Among the categories listed on their site is a major section titled Conferences and Event Planning, which includes Conference Planning, Conference Venues, and Event Marketing and Promotions.

Margaret Core shared her success with marketing her BIO 2008 Convention using LinkedIn, saying “We have more than 500 new email contacts because of the Linked In page we created for our convention.”

Read the full post at:

Still Loving Linked In

(By the way, she also had a group page up on Facebook - you can see the details by following the links in the above post).

Simon Ford has a great article on how to use the latest social media trend of microblogging to market your event.

Basically, microblogging involves posting updates in real-time, either text, photos or video, using services like Twitter, or the ’status update’ features of social sites like Facebook. Using these types of services means the information is more readily accessible because people can both post and see these updates on their cellphones.

So, how is this used to market your event?

Read the full article at:

Marketing Events by Micro-Blogging

There are some great ideas in that article, like how to incorporate microblogging with Google Maps or putting a watch on Twitter updates to find people that may be interested in your event. Visit the above link to get the full story.