Thanks to all you joined us Wednesday for the Social Media in Events Webinar, hosted by James Spellos and Jordan Schwartz, along with special guest Alan Levine. For those who could not attend, we recorded the entire session:

Resources

We also promised to provide links to the various resources we mentioned during the webinar. They are below. There are two in particular that I’d like to draw your attention to:

• TwitterDinks (at right), a brand new Twitter visualization from Pathable co-founder Shelly Farnham. It’s a beautiful ambient representation of Twitter accounts, with density of leaves on a tree representing number of tweets, the presence (or absence) of heart fruits representing the tone of the tweets, and similar representations for individual tweets, numbers of followers / friends, etc. TwitterDinks is in private beta at the moment, but can request to be notified when it is released publicly by e-mailing shelly@wagglelabs.com.
• Pathable Tracker: A free tool from Pathable that lets you track all the tweets associated with a hash tag, automatically calculate reach and download the full set of results as a CSV file for analysis in Excel, archiving or other purposes.

Twitter Tools

• TwitterDinks: visualization
• VisibleTweets: visualization
• Almost.at: visualization
• Twazzup: visualization
• Pathable Tracker: Exportable archive of tweets for a hash tag

Conference-wide social networking tools

Conference-wide social networks, or “white label social networks”, let you build a community for your attendees on your terms. By providing a space where attendees can get to know each other before the event, our findings show you can increase attendee satisfaction and intent to return. You can restrict the communities to only those who have registered for the conference, brand them, integrate them into your existing web presence, etc. Pathable is one such service, but we covered several other examples, as well.

• Pathable: Social network for attendees, can be embedded within an existing event web site
• IntroNetworks
• Ning: See Eventpeeps for example
• MediaWiki: Attendees collaborate on conference material. See  for 2009 ALA Conference as example

Other Resources for extending community

• Flickr: Tag-centric photo sharing
• Second Life: Virtual 3D world (can be used for virtual conference viewing)
• Storymap: Collaborative photo album creation
• Del.icio.us: Social bookmark sharing