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IMPORTANT: PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TOPICS WILL BE VOTED ON BY THE PARTICIPANTS EVERY WEEK TO DETERMINE THE Chat Schedule. THIS WILL ENSURE THAT TOPICS ARE RELEVANT TO THE MAJORITY OF PARTICIPANTS.

PLEASE ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT TOPICS SHOULD BE RELEVANT TO ALL EVENT PROFESSIONALS - THIS INCLUDES PLANNERS, A/V TECHS, CATERERS, ENTERTAINERS, EDUCATORS, ETC.

1. AV tips and best practices for meeting/event planners

2. Ways to cut food/beverage costs

3. Room layouts/setups and their best use for what type of meetings/events

4. Tips for audience response systems

5. How to create an excellent attendee/customer experience

6. What are going to be the biggest external factors to our business in the next 5 years and what can we do about them?

7. Where next? What does an event professiona want to do next? Senior Event Planner? What are some of the other career pathways

8. How about a series to share good speaker names. Each session could be on a different type of speaker. eg. leadership, motivation, change, etc...

9. What are the pros and cons of each speaker bureau? What makes the best Bureau sales agent? (that might be two different ones)

10. How to increase the value of your relationship with sponsors/exhibitors with little/no cost.

11. Exhibitor Advisory Councils - How do you get the most out of them?

12. How to combat the negative perception of events among media and public at large.

13. How has the current economic climate affected your pricing structure and how long do you expect the new structure to last? What are you doing to combat your shrinking margins and protect your five year plan?

14. How has pricing affected your current preferred vendor relationships? Do you find that you are using non-preferred companies to save your clients money?

15. Event collaboration product demos: Social Collective, Crowdvine, Pathable

16. Ways to engage speakers beyond in-person  11/5

17. How to establish collaboration pre-event

18. How to support collaboration post-event

19. Where/how to find good speakers

20. How do you compete with preferred vendors when you are not one?

21. How can Social media drive event registration? eg: http://www.eventvue.com/blog/2009/09/01/announcing-eventvue-discover/

22. Creating a hybrid event. What's involved?

23. Defining an event versus experience.

24. Using social media for tradeshows.

25. Event design, what is it, best practices.

26. Pick the brain of senior meeting planners.

27. Going green - tips, tricks and suggestions for events.

28. How can crowdsourcing be used to improve events?

29. What can we get from speakers besides an in-person speech?  11/5

30. What should the full cycle of an event entail: pre, during, post (maybe three different chats)?

31. Which is more important a speaker's content or their presentation?

32. What are the most effective ways to reach new clients... is it new media, is print dead, direct mail, partnerships, bridal shows, etc.

33. How can Twitter Lists improve events?

34. What are your favorite resources for how events are changing?

35. The one fun and cool event technology you love: ranging from AV to virtual platforms to attendee managment to social media to community management to...well, you get the idea.

36.  Using Google Wave for Events and business

37.  Best Practices for Back Channel conversations for Events

38. Rating Speakers

39. Finding Speakers

40. Tips on Using Social Media Before, During & After Event

41. Twitter Moderating For Events - How to Handle Live Feedback

42.  Event PR - Best Tips

43.  Attracting and Working With Sponsors and Exhibitors

44. Personal Branding - Ways to be a Trusted Agent for your brand or company.

45. What does it take to put together a hybrid event?

46. What sources do people use to gain event knowledge?

47. Does hybrid help or hurt f2f attendance?  Why?

48. What are all the different types of Hybrid?  When to use which?