Promoting Events With Social Networking
There is no doubt that the internet today is the most used communication technology used after telephony and is expected to surpass even conventional telephones and mobile phones within a few years. The huge popularity of the internet as a communication platform can be estimated from the fact that mobile phone technology is now incorporating the internet within itself so that people can communicate through emails, chats and social networking platforms from the mobile itself. As the reach, speed and ability of mobile phones to grant efficient internet access increases, they will slowly see a transformation from mobile phones to convergence devices that have full internet facilities to impart every communication facility and can be used to place calls too!
Many adults have not yet grown used to the various uses of the internet like chatting, micro blogging and social networking; for them, email is still the only useful service provided by the internet. While the current generation of business professionals may still be on email, this scenario will soon change as their place is taken by newer, the internet frenzy generation that starts its day with a smiley on the internet messenger and ends it with a ‘good by’ on social networking. Pretty soon the global workforce will also align itself with the communication abilities provided by the internet. As the reach of the internet increases to the workforce, things like internet chatting, social networking, blogging and even micro blogging will become a part of the business and will assist in providing excellent communication.
Business meetings, seminars, conferences and training sessions are an important part of a business. As important it is to organize these events, it is also important to inform or promote these events so that people know the various details about such events. Internet facilities like social networking can work wonders in helping you promote events without fail. Given below are some of the social networking websites that you can use to promote events:
* Facebook – One of the most popular social networking websites, Facebook is your best bet for promoting any event. Being an easy to use website and having facilities other social networking websites can only dream of, Facebook is something that has created fans from ordinary web surfers. A general purpose social networking website that has its use as a chatting as well as blogging application, Facebook also provides its users with the facility to post events and allows everyone to know about the event instantly.
* MySpace – The biggest competitor of Facebook and having a strong, dedicated membership of more than 200,000,000 users, MySpace is known for its MySpace pages. Used largely for the promotion of various events, MySpace is the perfect place to promote an event be it a business meeting or a party.
* LinkedIn – A comparatively new yet very efficient entrant in the social networking arena, LinkedIn works just like Facebook and MySpace but caters better to the professional users. By creating your profile that is complete with your experience, credentials and other details to the number of employees you have worked with, LinkedIn is the perfect place to choose for promoting an event related to business like meetings, seminars, conventions and conferences.
While there are many similar applications to promote your events online, these three would be your best bet because of their large reach.