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IAEE is Getting Social with LinkedIn and Facebook
By Joyce McKee | April 10, 2008
It is a wonderful surprise to get a release from IAEE, the International Association of Exhibitions and Events, that they have groups on these two social media networks.
I am a LinkedIn user and have been for quite awhile.
My profile is at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joycemckee
I have sent off my request to join the IAEE Group and am waiting for a response.
In the meantime, if we can be apart of each other’s networks, send me an invitation.
I would count it a privilege to help you in any way I can.
Also, I am interested in any stories you might have about how LinkedIn has helped you.
I know a few folks who have used this tool to their advantage.
I am sure there are more stories we need to hear to help us better utilize the power of social networks.
Until later…
Joyce McKee
Topics: Trade Show News |
April 10th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Joyce, I share your enthusiasm at seeing the IAEE take to the social networking waters. I think what’s happening at a very macro level is that social networking paradigms are transforming the ways people connect, for professional purposes and otherwise. This can’t help but affect tradeshows and conferences, whose very raison d’etre is to connect people.
Not so long ago, you might have gotten a brochure in the mail to let you know that a tradeshow you might wish to attend (or had attended in the past) was coming up again. You’d mark your calendar, write your check, pack your bags, and hope to collect a few auspicious business cards while you were there. And that was generally how you expanded your professional network and stayed “connected” to your industry.
Things are obviously a little different now, in ways too numerous to even begin to list. But I would say that for all that is NEW in the ways we network and connect, we have been reminded of the importance of meeting people face-to-face, of shaking hands and of the value of occasionally looking people in the eye with whom we are doing business. Thus, “events” continue to thrive, and they will always thrive — except that the dynamics that control who you are likely to meet on the tradeshow floor and what happens after that have been radically transformed.
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