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Convention Centers S AGENDA CIAL Are Twitter and Facebook for gossip and family pics only? Think again. By Marc Boisclair or most conventioneers, Rahaf Harfoush has yet to attain household-name status. But at this year’s InnoTech Conference in Portland, OR, in April, Harfoush, the self-dubbed newmedia strategist behind the Obama campaign’s Twitter strategy, created a nearfrenzy. “As she began her presentation, which was about using social media, people got very excited and the Twitter comments from inside and out of the room just exploded,” says InnoTech Executive Director Sean Lowery, also of Portland’s Prospera Events. As Lowery and fellow staffers F watched their laptops in amazement, the tracking screen lit up. “It was really neat to see the instant reaction to the speaker,” he says. “People inside were tweeting the highlights of Harfoush’s talk as she spoke, among themselves and to those outside the room, while others were responding that they were bummed because they couldn’t make it in. We were very excited by it all—even more so by the positive reaction.” CENTERS OF ATTENTION Indeed, few planners would gripe at witnessing a wave of good tweets engulf 44 I SM I September 2009 I SuccessfulMeetings.com http://www.SuccessfulMeetings.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Successful Meetings - September 2009

Successful Meeting - September 2009
Table of Contents
Incentive Travel Report
Convention Centers
Shiny & New
Social Agenda
Meetings Merchandise
Rocky Mountain Resorts
Greater LA
Phoenix/Scottsdale
Caribbean
Monaco
Hawaii: Incentive Planner's Handbook
Hawaii Table of Contents
Paradise Found
No Task Too Big
Golf, Hawaii-Style
Nevada
Nevada Table of Contents
Las Vegas: New and Now
Meet Me in Las Vegas
That's Entertainment
Suburban Sancuaries
Meet Me in Reno-Lake Tahoe

Successful Meetings - September 2009