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Online Survey: Social Media – real Trend or just Hype? amiando is handing out its extensive survey to event organisers, in order to find out how the event industry will be using social networks in 2013. Take part in our survey and have the chance to win one of [...]
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We published our Green Events Report 2013 today! Are green and sustainability issues getting more important? What are the main reasons for event professionals to not act green? The Green Events Report 2013 is based on a survey amiando conducted and, in which various event organisers worldwide participated. The report outlines the most important [...]
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Which ticket prices are suitable for different event categories? When are the most tickets sold? We analysed data from more than 180,000 organised events and are pleased to present our new publication series, amiando Insider Knowledge, which includes helpful tips that will ensure successful event planning. Three facts out of the [...]
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About the guest author: Marc Knoll is an online marketer, blogger and technology enthusiast. His blog trendblog.net focuses on digital marketing and technology. Follow him on Google+. With more and more smartphones coming out equipped with Near Field Communication chips, or NFC, more people are getting aware of the existence of this promising technology. But only a few actually [...]
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How Does the Event Industry Use Social Networks?
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amiando has grown significantly in the last years and, together with this great picture of the team wearing the new amiando shirts, we present you some fun facts today:
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Events of the week
Swiss Testing Day 2012
This Event is organized by SwissQ / Swiss Testing Day and takes place in Zurich on March 14th. With 750 attendees, the Swiss Testing Day is the largest software testing conference in Europe.
Look at the agenda
Uponor Kongress 2012
The Uponor Kongress 2012 takes place in St. Christoph, Austria, from March 18th to March 23rd. Topic of the congress is energy-efficient buildung restoration and many renowned experts will be present. There will be several workshops and plenty of opportunity for discussions.
Check out this event’s amiando page
REConf 2012
From March 12 to March 16 the REConf 2012 takes places in Munich. Organized by HOOD GmbH, the REConf (Requirements Engineering Conference) is the largest conference in the German-speaking area that deals with Requirements Engineering. The most important tool manufacturers and service providers in the Requirements Engineering business will be there and present their range of services and products.
Check out this event
Have an eventful week, everyone!
amiando
Have you already seen our latest Whitepaper on successful Facebook Marketing for Events? If not, check it out – it’s free and within five hours after publishing we had almost 1.000 downloads!
In the eight pages, you can learn
- how to effectively use Facebook fan pages & Facebook events
- how to sell tickets for events directly in Facebook
- how to set up Facebook ads for events
- how amiando helps to harness the great potential of the world’s largest social network
The complete white paper is available for free on our website:
http://info.amiando.com/facebook-marketing-for-events
event spotlight
After the great success in 2011 Startup Camp Berlin is held for the second time on March 16. and 17. 2012. Half workshop half conference, this startup event, which is hosted by the Entrepreneurs Club Berlin and media.net berlinbrandenburg, gives young entrepreneurs the chance to realize their ideas and projects by providing a platform for idea and knowledge exchange.
Part of this year’s Startup Camp Berlin is the bitcrowd campchamp 2012 pitch competition – submit your idea and win a prize worth about 40.000 €. The prize includes:
- 40 days of development time for your prototype or minimum viable product by Berlin’s best agile software agency bitcrowd
- 16 hours of first-class legal advice by the Berlin based legal firm lindenpartners
- 6 months of office space for 3 team-members at Humboldt Innovation, the technology transfer office of Humboldt University.
Young entrepreneurs, founders and startup enthusiasts don’t miss this great event in the heart of Berlin!
Get your tickets now.
amiando
We say “welcome” to Susanne our new Chief Sales Officer. We are happy and proud to have her on board now.
Susanne brings leading industry credentials to her new role. After working for Streamevent she became Sales Director at Getty Images. Between 2009 and 2011 she headed the office of Getty Images as Country Manager, reporting directly to the European Senior Vice President.
She now joins amiando as Chief Sales Officer with overall responsibility for the international sales team. “I’m really looking forward to an exciting new challenge at amiando and to becoming part of this successful and ambitious team” Susanne said today.
“We are very pleased and proud that Susanne has chosen to join the amiando family” says Felix Haas, Co-Founder and CEO of amiando. “With her impressive sales and management experience she is exactly the right person to lead our international sales team into even more comprehensive business growth world-wide.”
Welcome to the amiando family Susanne!
Events of the week
German-Libyan Forum 2012
The German-Lybian Business Forum 2012 takes place in Tripolis, 
Lybia on February 27 – March 1. This event is organized by the German African Business Association, which aims to assist in establishing direct contacts between Lybian partners and companies which want to enter or re-enter the Lybian market after the fall of Gaddafi’s regime.
Read more.
eEvolution Conference 2012
On March 1 and 2 the 6th eEvolution Conference is held in Hannover, Germany. This year’s conference slogan reads “Efficient usage of eEvolution” and the conference is packed with great expert speeches on innovation, trends and latest developments and it offers great networking opportunities with customers, developers and partners.
Link to the registration form.
London Bass Guitar Show
The London Bass Guitar Show takes place on March 3rd and 4th, 2012 in the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London. This exciting event offers a combination of globally recognized players, international insustry experts and loads of sneak peeks of the latest bass instruments on the market.
Check out this event.
amiando
Today we introduce three brand new features/product improvements.
Tracking your Sales Channels
Would you like to know where attendees registered for your event? On your own website, on Facebook, or at the event venue itself?
Under “Revenues” you now have the possibility to view all of the different sales channels. The sales channels are also listed in your own reports, which you can export in Settings under “Data Export”.
Improved cancellation management for you as the organizer
For the question how should amiando handle cancellation requests from your attendees, you can now choose the new option “Forward to the event organizer”. When you use this option, you have the possibility to set your own conditions for cancellations. The cancellation order is then processed by amiando. This option can be found under “Payment Handling” in your event.
>> You can see here how it actually works
Conference2go: The new amiando App
Do you want to offer your attendees an iPhone App for your event? Then check out our new conference2go Application, the new iPhone App for conferences.
- Direct connection to your attendees at any time
- Structured overview of your event
- Easy Social Media communication
- Comprehensive cross-marketing opportunities
- and many more…
>> Learn more about our new conference2go iPhone App
Events of the week
“Events of the week” is a new category on our blog. From now on we will post every Monday a choice of interesting events which take place in that particular week.
This week we will start with the Mobile Developer Conference 2012, the Sports Business Summit (SpoBiS), and the Decanter Great Spanish Fine Wine Encounter.
Mobile Developer Conference 2012
The Mobile Developer Conference (MDC) 2012 takes place for the fourth time in Hamburg, Germany on February 13. – 14. The conference is all about mobile platforms, the most relevant mobile operating systems and marketing of mobile products.
Find out more about the Mobile Developer Conference 2012
Sports Business Summit (SpoBiS)
This year’s SpoBiS, the largest sports business conference in Europe, takes place in Dusseldorf, Germany on February 13. – 14. With more than 1,500 participants, 130 speakers from Germany and abroad and 14 forums on special interest topics, this event offers everything a sports manager could ever wish for.
Click here for more information about SpoBiS
Decanter Great Spanish Fine Wine Encounter
The Decanter Great Spanish Fine Wine Encounter is held on Saturday 18 February 2012 in London. This event showcases a stunning array of Spanish wines, giving you the chance to discover Spain’s greatest wines and the regional variations of each wine-producing area. If you’re a wine lover you shouldn’t miss the grand tasting.
Get your Ticket here.
amiando
The twentieth anniversary Charities and Associations Exhibition –
CHASE 2012 – will take place on February 15-16, 2012 at the Business Design Centre, London.
The exhibition celebrates its anniversary with a packed programme of networking opportunities, business leads and fresh, relevant seminars for today’s not-for-profit leaders and you can meet
amiando there.
We are very proud to announce that we are the official
online registration sponsor of CHASE 2012. Of course, we’ll be also exhibiting there and we warmly invite you to attend the exhibition FREE and visit us at
stand 26.We look forward to meeting you at stand 26.
amiando,
featured article
We’re very proud to announce the official launch of our new
amiando conference2go iPhone App.
In collaboration with
Trippe:Beratung GmbH, we are now offering our customers a mobile App which can be tailored to individual conferences. conference2go gives attendees easy mobile access to all the relevant information surrounding an event.
In addition, this App offers event organizers numerous opportunities to better portray conferences, as well as their exhibitors and sponsors.
Event hosts can book the conference2go App through amiando for a launch price of €997.
“In the face of the new mobile age, amiando is proud to be able to offer its customers an innovative and affordable solution for mobile conference organization. conference2go provides attendees with relevant information, facilitates mobile networking and serves the event organizer as a real-time communication channel. This is an exciting opportunity for any professional conference”, says Felix Haas, CEO of amiando.
Read the full press release on our new conference2go App in our
newsroom.
Screenshots of a sample conference:
