Hello, Conor here again, For this week’s blog post week I will be blogging about how “The use of Internet has Revolutionized Event Management”
“The next big thing is getting smaller and smaller” A quote from Matthew Bryan Beck from redwrite.
An example of this is the new Apple Watch from Apple. Personally I constantly use my mobile to find out information on social media from Snapchat to Facebook. I rarely use my laptop anymore only for typing up college assignments. Wi-Fi has also changed the mobile industry. You can now almost travel anywhere and still get internet access on any portable device.
This summer I was approached by The cork Decades Festival . A comity made up of 6 volunteers whom run and organise this event which takes part in Cork City each summer. The event runs over two nights. Venues around Cork City tuner back time with brilliant hits from the 70s,80s while dressing like the groovy 90’s. I was delighted to be given the chance to come on board. My role was to run all their Social Media platforms, for example, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and snapchat.
Events have now been revolutionized by the use of internet on smart phones as before with old media ( TV,Radio, Newspapers) you were not quite sure whom you were targeting. Now with the use of Facebook and Twitter analytics, I was able to get the message out to the exact audience notifying them when the event was on. Now with the use of internet we are able to content with more people online then ever before.
Early this semester in Corks Institute of Technology My class and I were given a talk by Jackie Dawson, working as a PR consultant. Every Summer she helps run the PR for The Heineken Kinsale seven. Jackie spoke about how the use of internet has changed event management through the use of websites, social media, online video content and email as crucial tool. Caleb Gardner also spoke of the importance of email in a recent talk in Cork’s Corks Institute of Technology “It is like inviting someone into your home” email is still a very personal Medium.
I have taken a piece from Social Media Today an article written by Chris Horton which shows some interesting figures,
“Virtually every day, new evidence emerges of the consumer shift to mobile. According to new data from Gartner, by 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating revenue of more than $77 billion and making apps one of the most popular computing tools for users across the globe. To put these huge numbers in context by comparing them to the current world population of approximately 7.1 billion and counting, by 2017, every man, woman and child on the planet will have downloaded 37 mobile apps. In reality, considering that a large swath of the world’s population still does not have access to mobile apps or capability to download them (as is case with my six-month-old daughter), this means that those of us who are wielding smartphones and tablets will be downloading A LOT of apps. Looked at another way, by 2017, mobile apps will have gone completely mainstream, giving businesses a new way to connect with consumers”
I found these figures to be incredible after reading this article. Laptops used to be the consumers “first screen”, but in today’s society the first thing we do when we wake up or go to sleep, is check or mobile phones. God forbid we might not see the latest trend on twitter or photos from the last night out. The mobile world is truly changing. People clearly are spending more time on their mobile phones then on computers. According to the Social Media Examiner, Pinterest users are 92%, Twitter users are 86%, Facebook is 68%, and Tumblr is 46% mobile. According to these numbers, it is important companies recognise this when creating social media message so that it caters for the mobile users.
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Here is a video from YouTube of how The future of Social Media is now Mobile.
An example of how companies benefit from social media:
25 Ways The Internet Has Changed The World For Better Or For Worse
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