Thursday 20 September 2012

Using Social Networks For Organising Events

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Organising events using social networks can be one of our advantage to make an event to be successful. Using social networks to organise events can be a great experience for both event organisers and the attendees. What is interesting most about organising events using social networks is that you can reach your stakeholders faster and at the same time. Social networks improved our ways of organising events, unlike in the olden days where many people were  relying most on using invitation cards when they invite people to attend their events. This doesn't mean that people are no longer using invitation cards, some they are still using them but i think the easiest way is to adapt the use of social networks when organising events. The use of social networks can help event organisers to reach many people as possible.

As an event organiser i think it is very helpful to consider the following social networks tools when organising an event:
  • Facebook- by creating a Facebook page for your event where you can post  updates about the event
  • Twitter- by tweeting before the event and during the event to inform those who did not attend the    event about what is happening in the event.
  • Blog- by  posting event updates and uploading pictures and videos.
  • Myspace- by creating your own events and add events to send them to your friends.
  • Linkedin- by using Linkedin Event Application, this will enable you as an event organiser to share your events on this application.read more
 

Using social networks for organising events will help you as an event organiser to keep in touch with all the attendees and stay connected to you through the use of social networks. For me social networks can be regarded as the top event planning tools. 
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13 comments:

  1. Unknown20 September 2012 at 13:28

    Uisng social media for event should not be the 1st priority for events companies becasue not all of us like social media and people still prefer to see ad and posters around the streets.

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  2. Unknown21 September 2012 at 04:46

    Nowadays we rely on social networks to get our messages conveyed to our stakeholders. The only advantage is that you reach a large number of stakeholders faster. The moment you press a publish button is the moment you reach thousands of stakeholders.

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  3. VINCENT'S BLOG22 September 2012 at 01:39

    social networks are the in thing and if you feeel your target market is mainly based on social networking sites then you can use it to organise events but make sure that it works.

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  4. thomas22 September 2012 at 04:56

    Organising events through social media is a good thing, seeing that it saves the event organiser the hustle of going from place to place and it is convinient because the organiser can engage with variuos stakeholders at the same time.

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  5. moimane25 September 2012 at 01:47

    Social networks can make most success of events because they can help one to inform, teach and persuade target audience about the event.

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  6. Sizzle25 September 2012 at 03:25

    Social networks make it is easy and convenient to get messages across. It is used by almost every person these days so if you want to get a message across to many people, social networks should be at the top of your list.

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  7. Refi M25 September 2012 at 06:46

    I think that it could work but traditional media is still the way to go if you want to get your message across. Not everyone believes in social networking and in fact some people don't even know how to use social networking sites.

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  8. vongani25 September 2012 at 07:31

    I think that could work as long as you send clear messages that will make your audience understand.But sometimes you have to meet the demands of your audience as some are not the regular user of social networks.

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  9. ZAwiSA Africa26 September 2012 at 02:59

    social media is one of the useful tools whn planning an events but organisations should know their audience and the social media they use,so that will be easy to communicatie

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  10. Dudu ngobeni26 September 2012 at 04:11

    i agree with what you wrote on this blog,like mthokozisi said,it is crucial to use social media when planning an event.

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  11. Unknown27 September 2012 at 00:21

    Technology has reall ytaken over. social networks have made our lives a bit easier because now imagine that we dont need to make endless and costly calls when organising events. but we must not forget that some people still prefer theold way of doing things like posters.

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  12. Bornwise Chauke27 September 2012 at 04:30

    new technology has came to enhance our interaction capabilities in our daily lives, can you just think imagine how things were before the technological advancement. everything has to delay but we are now able to interect and semulteneously share everything we like whilst at work, home and anywhere around the world.

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  13. tsholofelo2 October 2012 at 00:41

    Its a best way to go socila network get things out there on a very huge platform

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