10 May 10 Landry & Kling Announces Seasite.com Online Community Powered by i-Meet
Social Media Strategy Launches for Planners and Suppliers; Technology Partnership Connects Customers, Embraces Open Communication
MIAMI–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Cruise event specialists Landry & Kling Inc. have announced a strategic partnership between their company Seasite.com, the first cruise portal for meetings and events, and i-Meet.com, the professional and social network for meeting and event planners and suppliers.
“Facebook and Twitter are important to our overall social media strategy, but with our new Seasite online community, we’re giving our customers and users an expanded experience in i-Meet’s global community”
The partnership introduces a unique, online community on i-Meet.com for Seasite.com users and prospects worldwide. Leveraging i-Meet’s fast-growing network and social media platform, Seasite’s online community will feature industry leading technology, group special interest “hot spots”, and provide a way for people to connect and interact with over 20,000 industry professionals around the world.
“Our customers have expressed an interest in a community-based social platform to complement Seasite’s cruise sourcing and planning tools,” said Jo Kling, CEO of Seasite.com. “We are excited to be partnering with i-Meet and its meetings industry-specific social network approach; we can now deliver a unique experience to our customers that’s in line with the way people do business today.”
“It’s really a very natural progression to introduce social networking to cruise meetings customers,” said John Pino, i-Meet’s Founder and CEO, “and marrying Seasite’s cruise sourcing technology with an online communications and collaboration channel enabled through i-Meet’s global community of planners, buyers and suppliers will create advantages for everyone.”
“Facebook and Twitter are important to our overall social media strategy, but with our new Seasite online community, we’re giving our customers and users an expanded experience in i-Meet’s global community,” said Jo Kling “This is an industry first that will allow our users to network with other professionals and communicate what’s on their minds.”
The partnership will allow the growth of active mini-communities for i-Meet and Seasite.com members based on their areas of interest. The groups will be hosted and administered by Seasite’s expert cruise industry professionals. “Friend-ing” others, “following” suppliers, and subscribing to and publishing blogs will round out the experience.
About Landry & Kling and Seasite.com
Landry & Kling Inc., cruise event specialists since 1982, recently introduced Seasite.com, the first online cruise platform for meeting professionals. Seasite is an industry sourcing tool to search, select and plan group cruises, with access to 35 cruise lines in one site, meeting-friendly search criteria, e-RFP’s, meeting/function room capacities, dining details and other unique tools available nowhere else. Visit www.seasite.com or www.landrykling.com.
About i-Meet
Created by the Founder of StarCite, www.i-Meet.com is focused on building the industry’s most relevant worldwide online community for the meeting and event industry. With 20,000 members from 130 countries around the world to date, i-Meet brings social networking, web 2.0 tools, work flow and relationship opportunities, and industry intelligence to its members and suppliers. Visit i-meet.com.
Contacts
i-Meet.com
Chip Stockman, 610-999-2186
cstockman@i-meet.com
or
Seasite.com
Maureen McKeon, 305-661-1880
mmckeon@seasite.com
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26 Mar 10 Do You Tweet? Part 2
Promoting an upcoming event is a critical skill for a meeting and event planner. Social networking applications, such as Twitter, can make the promotion process faster and more exciting. Most people agree that once you catch on the joy of the tweet, there is no going back.
Twitter users can send a tweet to an individual, a group, or make a public tweet that is available to anyone. Confidential information must be kept private, so tweet thoughtfully and with care. Once you’ve opened your Twitter account and sent out a few experimental tweets, the next step is keeping track of incoming responses. Many people find Tweetdeck a useful tool.
Tweetdeck is an application compatible with PCs and iPhones that allows users to sign in, check their tweets, and organize followers into groups. Twitter doesn’t allow sorting followers into groups, one of the main advantages of a Tweetdeck account. It allows users to separate messages to business clients from those sent to friends or family members.
Become a follower. More and more people are joining Twitter; your clients, vendors, and professional organizations may be among them. Stay professional and use complete words at least when texting clients. Your sister might understand “How r u?” but texting abbreviations could leave your clients unimpressed.
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24 Mar 10 Do You Tweet? Part 1
Meeting and event planners are always on the lookout for ways to spread the work about upcoming events. Social networking is more important than ever before and includes more than just face-to-face interaction. Facebook, Live Journal, blogs, and Twitter are wonderful methods of connecting with clients. Twitter probably generates more and quicker responses to a question or announcement than any other method of communication.
Tweets, the 140 character text-based posts sent to the author’s followers, are quick, concise time savers. It is much easier to text a tweet to a large group than to send a comparable number of emails. The tweet can share a thought, ask a question, or even direct the group to a blog post announcement of an upcoming event. Retweeting, passing along a message to someone not part of the core group, spreads the word of your next meeting even further.
Twitter is more efficient than email. You can send a message to an individual just as you can in an email, or to your followers, which is comparable to sending carbon copy (cc) email to a group. Notices of incoming tweets speed to your group’s computers or cell phones and many people check for tweets many times a day.
We'll continue to explore the Twitter revolution in Part 2.
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21 Jul 09 What is “Business as Usual?” No, really!
Many meeting and event planners are self employed. While this is always appealing to people who love independence and “setting their own hours,” there is much more to it than meets the eye. Here are three things you may not have thought about, even if you have a business degree.
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This can be one of the hardest-hitting realities you will face. You can’t simply hang up a sign, sit in front of your phone all day, then complain later when you have no business. You have to take matters into your own hands. These are the places you will need to turn to for getting the word out: (more…)
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