We’re suspending the #eventtable Twitter chat for a short while, but don’t touch that dial: we’ll be back soon, with a new focus that will make the weekly conversation even more useful for the event and social media worlds.
While the chat is shut down, we’ll continue reposting some of the best blog posts we can find on the connection between events and social media.
Since we launched it early this year, the chat has covered a wide menu of topics that have pointed to the moment of transition in which we all find ourselves. The meetings scene is shifting rapidly. Social platforms are coming on strong—except that the platforms themselves are evolving at such a rapid pace that today’s hot new innovation is more than likely to become tomorrow’s ancient history. All the while, we see meetings, marketing, and communications professionals trying to sort out the do’s, don’ts, and emerging practices for building strong online communities.
The Conference Publishers launched #eventtable to provide a useful service to our professional community, and to learn alongside our peers. The learning has taken hold beyond our wildest dreams: we’ve begun reconfiguring our services, and the change runs deep enough that it’s looping back to transform the chat itself. We’ll use this short hiatus to map the weekly chat lineup more closely to our shifting sense of what this brilliant online community needs. And then—here’s a concept!—we’ll hold a couple of open chats, to get your feedback on whether we’re on the right track and, no doubt, what we’re missing.
So stay tuned. We won’t be gone for long, and we think you’ll like what you see when we return.