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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

I joined the social media platform Mastodon a year ago. Given recent turbulent social media trends, I’m glad I took the plunge. It was the first major social media platform where the majority of posts were public and searchable. (In What do I mean by that? Since then, Twitter began a slow decline.

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7 Tips for Driving Attendee Engagement at Virtual Events

Smart Meetings

Hashtags across social media platforms for cohesion and to aggregate conversations. Social media: Promote the event across your social media channels , including reminders of which sessions are upcoming, where attendees can access critical resources, and highlights from the sessions. How to Spread the Word.

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Half of Gen Z Wants to Work in Hospitality

Smart Meetings

Gen Z, defined as those born between the years 1995-2010, is the largest age group in the United States, estimated at about 61 million. The majority of Gen Z-ers have never experienced life without mobile phones, and many take for granted the ability to stay in perpetual contact with one another, usually via social media.

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Field Report: How Brands at VidCon 2024 Captured the Spirit of Online Communities

Event Marketer

What started as a YouTuber-centric convention in 2010 has expanded over the years to include all kinds of content creators, from TikTokers to OG Instagram influencers to gamers and streamers. The digital content community descended upon Anaheim, CA, June 26-29, for the 13 th annual VidCon, a celebration of all things online video.

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eXTwitter gets desperate

Conferences that Work

Although Twitter started showing the occasional “Promoted Tweet” in 2010, it wasn’t until around 2014 that ads became a regular feature of a user’s timeline. And that’s what Elon has done in the last two weeks. How advertising on eXTwitter became so bad A quick history.

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How Community Data Informed Reddit’s First Experiential Space at CES

Event Marketer

Through the years, redditors have kept their fingers on the pulse of the latest trends in tech—often predicting the next big thing through subreddits like r/electricvehicles (started in 2009) and r/bitcoin (established in 2010). For its first activation at CES, held in Las Vegas from Jan.

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Paje Consultancy launch Learning and Development partnership with beam

Prestige Events Magazine

Paje Consultancy was set up by Mandy Jennings in 2010, who has a breadth of sales, conference and marketing experience with major hotel and venue operators. Paje are specialists in the meetings, events, and conference market, who offer bespoke training for venues, hotels, and agencies.