social media

HOW TO: Use Foursquare for a Conference (or an Exhibit Booth)

May 19, 2010 by Kari Rippetoe

Tuvel Communications is the online PR firm for the NAB Show, and in addition to being the “voice” behind the show’s social media outposts (Twitter, Facebook pages, LinkedIn group), we also devised and implemented creative pre-show and on-site social media promotions to engage attendees, drive registrations and generate excitement.

This year Foursquare became a major player in the social media game, and although we did not implement a full-scale location-based program, we did monitor how people were using Foursquare at the show, plus we came up with a last minute on-site contest that utilized the geo-location social network. What we learned was quite interesting and makes all of us here at Tuvel very excited about the possibilities Foursquare presents for the event marketing and conference business(s).

Marketers: Do You “Like” Facebook’s Open Graph?

April 29, 2010 by Kari Rippetoe

With last week’s pivotal announcement of Facebook’s Open Graph, the “one graph to rule them all” as it’s been referred to rather humorously (and yet, at the same time quite ominously), the Interwebs have been all abuzz with talk of how this will affect the web as we know it. While the ubiquitous term “Web 2.0” refers to the next generation of the web – an increasingly social entity due to social media and networking sites like Twitter, YouTube, and of course Facebook – the question on many minds is how the web will evolve with the introduction of Open Graph and whether it will now become one big social network.