Please join us for our Water Cooler chats, hosted in conjunction with Engage365, on FRIDAYS at 12 pm CST/1 pm EST. That’s today!! We’ll be talking a lot about all the various interesting issues around using social media at events… but as usual, we’ll also talk about anything else that’s on your mind. So come armed with serious questions / topics / issues / problems or just drop in to shoot the breeze on Friday afternoons. Can’t wait to chat with you!

Last week, we had a great discussion about how organizations and planners should think about how they are trying to reach their intended audience for events and consider other marketing vehicles alongside social media channels; particularly since social media works only as well as the community you already have in those spaces. We also provided some recommendations for good AMS/CMS/CRM consultants in response to a viewer query…

This week I’m joining KiKi L’Italien on the Association Social Media Sweetspot, a live webcast at 12:30 pm ET. We’ll be shooting the breeze about event social media stuff that has happened in the last week, and specifically discussing a couple of posts by Jeff Hurt (An Open Letter To Association Board Members, Committees, Executives and Two Reasons Why Crowdsourcing Your Conference Content Won’t Work) that sparked huge discussions in the comments. Read ‘em and come and share your thoughts in the SweetSpot chat or the Water Cooler immediately following it!

Don’t forget, any chat can be replayed by going to the “completed Events” tab in the CoverItLive window below! See you on the chat this week!