Who are the most important people to your conferences success who are not part of the planning team?
You guessed it (or just read the title) - Invited speakers, panelists, experts all draw crowds wanting to learn from the experts. With so many conferences and so many experts, it is critical that you help your chosen speakers rise above the crowd, as promoting them will pay dividends promoting your conference.
So how can you promote your erudite and learned virtuosos? One way to do this is make it easy for them to do it themselves! Add bonus, your speakers will take some of the planning load off you so you can focus on the fun part of planning your conference.
With the Message Blocks platform you can easily invite your speakers. Once invited, your speakers will be able to append their social media profiles from Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook as well as add an awe inspiring photo and their chosen bio.
Delinquent speakers? No problem! You can add their social media links for them.
One of you regular speakers? Once added as a speaker to your team, their up-to-date profile will be available for all subsequent events.
Your speaker wants to share their offerings / presentations? just upload their file right in the agenda when they’ll be presenting. Love being prepared? You can even upload it ahead of time and only have it available to your attendees on and after a certain day.
Message Blocks helps you heard your clowder of cats. Once a speaker is attached to the mobile friendly agenda, your speaker and panelists can easily see where and when they need to be present to wow your crowd.
Have profoundly engaging speakers? Give them the superpower of being able to directly engage with the entire audience with an audience response systems (ARS). Use the similar survey function before the conference to give your speaker insight into what the audience might want to learn about and surveys following the conference to give you speaker feedback. With such easy access to their bios, sessions and data, your speakers will feel more empowered and help grow your conference themselves. It’s a win-win!