Be the Voice

How to "Web 2.0-Enable"
your Live Event

By David Spark, Founder of Spark Media Solutions, LLC

Many people will bring their digital cameras to the event. Inevitably they’ll take pictures, post them, and want others to see their photos. Offer them a place to post the photos. I’d recommend Flickr because it’s the most popular social photo sharing site, it’s owned by Yahoo! (if you have a Yahoo! account you have a Flickr account), and you can tag photos with keywords like BlogConferenceSF2007.

Let everyone know that you’ll be using Flickr to post photos using the tag name you settled on for your event. Encourage everyone to do the same. If everyone uses the same photo sharing site (e.g. Flickr) with your chosen tag name, a single search on that name, BlogConferenceSF2007, will display all the photos from the event even if people are posting from different accounts.

Don’t forget to take photos of the evening parties. Those are usually the ones everyone wants to see.


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