@kylemj6977 Check with Social Media For Nonprofits. They’re online, Twitter (@SM4NP), FB and LinkedIn. When I volunteered with them, we had a live Twitter feed during the DC conference on a screen at the front of the room which was nice. I wish that I could give you more specific help but I’m in the same boat with my conference. I’m thinking of using Pinterest to showcase the winners of the awards program. 

@grahamtomorrow I appreciate your response but I wasn’t looking for a mobile app for a business – just social aspects for a conference.  Thank you, regardless, for the reply.

@kylemj6977 Also, if you are going to incorporate Twitter, think about putting people’s handles on their nametags for easier identification. And even though QR codes aren’t widespread, it might be useful to have one or two for the schedule and Twitterfeed.

I’ll try to do some research over the weekend too if I get my presentation done.

@kylemj6977 I just remembered reading about a conference that used a bingo-like or passport program to get attendees to visit the exhibitor area. I believe that they received a prize or were entered into a drawing after visiting so many of the booths. This would be a good use of Foursquare if it can be used in that tight of a radius.

Or you could create badges / patches for them to pick up in areas like benefits, recruiting, on boarding, crisis mgmt, conflict resolution, etc. (A couple of my friends are SHRM folk.)

Thanks, Debbie.  You are all giving great ideas and making me feel like I am on the right track.

Briefly, Kyle, I’ve got an idea to share that I tried and got positive feedback on. It was more of an experiment on my own part and not something that was adopted at the event but I think you’ll get the idea.

I created a Facebook page for a conference I was speaking at – more as a way to show the conference sponsors how they could use FB to get the dialog started before the event, have attendees have interactions during the event, as well as have a place for people to leave their feedback for each of the seminars that happened after the event.

Here’s a link to the page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Environmental-Action-2011/293849347309174

Hey @Kyle -

A friend of mine is speaking at a conference today in NYC and it occurred to me that they might have some leading edge technology going on that might be helpful for you. You can check out their entire site at http://www.toccon.com/toc2012 and you can see what my friend, Jesse McDougal is speaking on here http://www.toccon.com/toc2012/public/schedule/detail/22250

I hope this helps…

Great thread and wonderful discussion! Keep it coming. This is gathering great information for future references. @kylemj6977 @bobfarnham @charlynshelton-socialmediainterpreter @debbielynnava @kc_kreative

@bobfanrham Couldn’t you also do the same thing with a group, the advantage to that is if they join the group, the will always get an email too. ?

I agree that it is a great discussion and is proving to be VERY helpful!  Thank you all for your responses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!