Infographic: Business Motivations and Social Behaviors of In-Person and Online Events

UBM Studios today announced a complete social media and ‘business games’ suite that is integrated into its virtual event platform.  By combining the right content, recruitment and management of audiences with this integrated suite of social and community tools, UBM Studios is now helping organizations connect their prospects and remote employees more effectively than ever through the next generation of virtual business environments. Social technologies continue to offer organizations a new way to deliver their messages, connect with individuals, foster education and improve communities – changing the way businesses interact with their customers. According to an August 2009 survey by Mzinga and Babson Executive Education, 86 percent of professionals in a variety of fields said that they have adopted social...

In preparation for the Virtual Edge Summit 2011, VEI published an infographic summarizing key virtual event stats. The goal of that infographic was to help those in the process of considering, researching or validating digital solutions for their organizations. In this infographic, our goal was to demonstrate the market potential of virtual environments. To determine the potential of digital solutions for meetings and events – either as a stand alone or augmentation of physical events, we pulled numbers regarding the current value of the worldwide (WW) and US physical events market Within this, we delved into the industries most likely to adopt virtual environments. Note, while the CWT Survey includes pharmaceutical/medical meetings as a subset of the larger corporate market, we wanted...

PR Newswire’s Virtual Event, “Engage CSR 2010,” discussed the growing importance of communications and measurement of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in today’s business environment.  The virtual event, which took place on June 30, 2010, brought together CSR managers as well as PR and IR professionals to showcase the growing importance of communicating corporate social responsibility initiatives to shareholders, customers, employees and partners via traditional media as well as the growing world of social media. UBM Studios provided the 3D platform for the event. Panel discussions featured experts from Microsoft, Intel, Campbell’s Soup, Merck, UPS and other Fortune 500 companies; sustainability sites, and NGOs.  Panels were interspersed between keynote address webcasts given by world-class marketing and sustainability leaders. Attendees learned what...

Social27, the three year-old, social CRM agency based in Bellevue, WA offers a virtual event platform that enables a host of virtual events including tradeshows, product launches and training seminars. Services also include event marketing and consultation as well as creating high quality media content. Social27’s Ike Singh Kehal, formerly with Microsoft’s Partner Program, envisions the platform as mirroring the physical experience as closely as possible in order to make the event producer’s job a little less cumbersome. “Because at the end of the day,” says Singh Kehal, “this [the virtual trade show environment] is what they’re going to be selling to the potential sponsors, we wanted to make it as simple and obvious as possible.” It starts with the...

An innovative meeting planning and travel firm this month is embracing the world of Virtual Events as a new and exciting part of their business. While travel and live events may be victims of an economic slowdown, offering clients a professional Virtual Events option may be a winner. Learn more about how and why Corporate Planners Unlimited, Inc. CEP Dan Parks (avatar above) opened the virtual doors to a new and improved Virtualis Convention Center this January, and how Parks’ partnership with famous Second Life virtual world in creating a dynamic virtual world as useful to business people as they are engaging for gamers. (Also, get a full summary of Virtualis features, cost structures and even a virtual tour.) CPU’s...