LinkedIn's Successful IPO Validates Social Media as Investment

On May 19th, LinkedIn listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LNKD, at a price of $45 per share. The stock peaked at $122.70 on the opening day, showing investor excitement in the business social network model that LinkedIn dominates.

Webvent offers a hearty congratulations to our Advisor Eric Ly, who was a co-founder at LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) and the founding CTO. He helped create some of LinkedIn’s core product features, and built the team that created LinkedIn’s third-party platform.  His work helped LinkedIn to achieve a quickly-growing user base now reaching more than 103 million.  Mr. Ly is now CEO and Founder of Presdo Match, a revolutionary product that creates social networks around conferences and trade shows and enables event exhibitors and attendees the opportunity to develop valuable business relationships through face-to-face interactions.

LinkedIn is the first of several anticipated social media IPOs, so watch for Zynga, Facebook, and Twitter yet to come.

Production Checklist for Successful Webinars

Even though webinars are rising in popularity in all sorts of industry areas, how many have you participated in that have been done really well? What do you want the participants to learn and how can you set up the expectation for engagement that keeps them listening. And even more important, how can you boost webinar attendance rates?

Last week I was happy to attend Hubspot’s webinar about quick tips on producing your first webinar. The entire process of webinar production, from selecting your webinar platform through post webinar actions were included in this highly interactive online event. The most challenging subject for all attendees was how to promote and boost your webinar attendance rate. Check it out and learn best practices for crafting and promoting your webinar to drive the most leads and informed attendees.

http://www.hubspot.com/how-to-produce-a-webinar-thanks

Here at Webvent.tv, we strive to embed these and other best practices into our webinar network platform, to create the easiest way to produce webinars within a community.

Why Does Webvent Share Revenue With the Community Owner?

Community owners are the experts who know their community and deliver relevant content to their audience. They are the ones who make the investment to build and maintain the community, whether it is part of their daily job, part-time activity, or personal interests. These passionate people know and love the community's topic.

Vibrant communities require commitment from a dedicate core group, and these people should be rewarded for their time and passion. We think that many communities can benefit from a live, online component - where people meet and interact when the cost in time or travel makes face-to-face meetings impractical. On Webvent.tv, community owners can run high-quality webinars to engage and attract attendees into their community, while providing sponsors the opportunity to present themselves to these attendees. We share the revenue generated from sponsorships with the community owner, because 'paying' community owners for their time and passion leads to more interesting content, spurs quality conversations and connections, and most importantly: it builds the community.

by Nick Kuppers, CEO Webvent.tv

How Dutch Schools World Wide Connect

The NTC (Nederlandse Taal & Cultuur) Schools community is a network of Dutch schools outside the Netherlands. These schools offer extracurricular lessons in the Dutch language and culture for children in the age of 4 to 12.

In February, the community kicked off on the Webvent.tv platform with their first webinars in the U.S. region. On the first Thursday of each month, teachers, parents, and school directors gather around a specific topic, which is presented by one of the schools. Topics include things like: how to optimize homework, how to get sponsors, and how to organize a Dutch culture day. The most recent webinar was presented by the NTC school ‘t Klokhuis, located near New York City.

One of the directors told me that Webvent is a great platform to get together, collaborate, and learn from each other on a frequent basis. Once a year in June, teachers and board member gather in person in the Netherlands during a live event with training and workshops. But travel time and cost make it hard for everyone to attend each year. For me, it has been 5 years since my last live event, and the most valuable part of being there is to connect with teachers and hear their stories.

“We love the live component in the community NTC schools world wide and how the community is organized. We can upload and download documents, refer to recorded webinars and during webinars we get to know each other better which makes it easier to connect anytime for any specific question. We all have the same objective, which is to improve the quality of the Dutch education for our children”.

http://ntcschoolsworldwide.webvent.tv/

Ingeborg van Rooij, is Secretary of the first Dutch school in Boston, Community owner of NTC schools world wide, and Community Manager at Webvent.tv

Webvent.tv: Matching Online and Offline Social Business Networks Through Web-based Conferences

Every business revolution brings a new way to reach potential customers. Before the Internet, vendors mailed out thousands of letters, and then followed up with cold calls to prospects. The Internet revolution brought a Web site for everyone, and it became easier to find and reach potential customers through search and email. Today we are in the social revolution, where individuals and organizations present and promote themselves to the world through online social networks.

Technologies come and go, but in business the social behavior patterns of people has been the same for decades, especially for businesses that sell their products nationally or internationally. These businesses network through trade shows and conferences, they sponsor analysts to create white-papers, they participate in Request For Proposal processes, and they pitch their companies and products directly to potential customers. Today our challenge is to provide technologies to accomplish sales goals through social networks.

We aim to do this, not by replacing in-person meetings or events with a different distribution medium (the Internet). Webvent.tv supports moderated communities (collaboration) that produce webinars, break-out sessions, and one-on-one communication, enabling connections year round, and thus increasing the visibility into potential business opportunities for all parties involved. Revenue generated from leads and sponsorships gets shared with community owners, rewarding their efforts and knowledge as moderator, while providing new income opportunities for subject matter experts to create a business for themselves around a topic or product.

Eventually, the whole social graph around the topic or product will collaborate and contribute to the success of that community for all parties involved: buyers, vendors, subject matter experts, influencers, event planners, government, media, etc. The social networks that we are creating online today simply mirror and enhance the social networks we have seen in the physical world for many years.

2xhib Is Now Webvent.tv

If you haven't noticed yet, we officially changed our name from 2xhib to webvent.tv, which means we will be opening up our first platform for collaboration to the public soon. Keep watching :-)

Open invitation to Subject Matter Experts to Generate Income Trough Web Events

Are you a subject matter expert (SME)? Would you like to create a series of Web Events around your area of expertise, complete with vendors, speakers, and industry members, while generating income in the process?

If your answer is “yes” to these questions, I invite you to register on www.webvent.tv and create a business community for free.

Creating a community on 2xhib.com provides vendors in your industry a year round opportunity to present themselves to the world through videos, images, downloads, and chat, in one central place. It provides visitors a rich media experience and interactive self-education opportunities, while having complete control of how they engage in those presentations. This is extremely valuable for companies who want to affiliate themselves with your name and expertise, and wants to reach out to your followers. It is also valuable for companies who are making a jump to another geographical market, or for companies who do not have huge marketing budgets to be present at every trade show or physical event. And it is a way for you to offer a vendor neutral overview to your followers or clients, who can search and compare the different vendors, access their content, and get feeds of updated information. Buyers (e.g., line of business managers looking for solutions or making a short list of potential vendors) will flock to your efficient and educational forum.

By running Web Events periodically, presenting topics of interest to your audience, you drive traffic to your community. The community engages in two-way communication and networking, while making the visitor metrics collected in your directory of vendors more valuable.

The more key vendors who join your community, the more buyers will visit your community, the more valuable the visitor metrics will become, the more lead reports will get purchased, the more revenue you generate.

Be among the first to join and share in the revenue. Until January 1st, 2011, 50% of the revenue of every lead report purchased from a community on 2xhib.com will be shared with the community owner (see terms on our website). Don’t miss the opportunity, and register your community today or take a tour on 2xhib.com. If you do not create the community of your choice, sooner or later somebody else will.
There is no maintenance, and no risk. We host the technology to run a community, and your vendors maintain their content. You focus on attracting virtual offices into your community, and running periodic Web Events and Webinars. Leads will follow quality content. There is no financial risk: the SME or community owner do not have to invest in technology to run the business community; vendors only pay if they decide to purchase a lead report from their virtual office in that community; and buyers can decide to share their contact information, or not, with vendors they visit.