Networking support at online events.
Conferences, conventions, trade shows.
A major function is networking.
How can it work online?
Consideration of how networking could work in large online events.
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What generally happens in these events?
- Big auditorium presentations
- Small localized displays, exhibit booths, poster presentations
- Small meetings or workshops with selected persons conferring or working together
- Opportunities to interact with the media
- Networking
- Hanky-panky
Networking support at online events
- Virtual Trade Shows: Pros and Cons
- One of the cons is networking support: you don't bump into people in the hall
- What can replace the hall and the cocktail model?
- User profiles with interest measures
- Interest measures
- Big data handling
- Search support
- Clustering
- Suggested contact list
- Interest group sessions
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Supports for networking art online events
User profiles with interest measures
- Prepare a list of interests commonly recognized in the business
- Ask them to list their interests.
- For their interests on your interest list get responses on a 7-item Likert scale
- Not interested to Strongly interested
Big data handling
- A computer handles networking in a database (imagine a spreadsheet).
- A row for each person and columns for attributes (interests and contact information).
- For a big meeting, the database must be able to scale up to handle everyone.
- The software for that is something like Amazon Aurora Serverless.
Search support
- People who want to network will seek ways to do it.
- Digital-savvy people will expect to use search for networking.
- They will search for people who share some of their interests.
- That is an AND relation across their chosen interest subset.
- The capability is in the database system.
- The only need is an entry panel and instructions for using it.
Cluster analysis
- Event management could take its own initiative on networking.
- Perform a cluster analysis based on similarity of interests.
- Use the clusters to suggest a list of possible contacts to each person.
- Note that the list could still be used after the event, with email addresses.
- (An advantage over the hall and cocktail model.)
- and to choose topics for breakout rooms.
Suggested contact list
- Use the clusters to suggest a list of possible contacts to each person.
- Note that the list could still be available after the event, with email addresses.
- (An advantage over the hall and cocktail model.)
Interest group sessions
- Use the clusters to suggest a list to choose topics for breakout rooms.
- An online event need not end after a few days,
- Thus interest group sessions could continue indefinitely.
- As could other uses for the registration database.
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