April 9, 2007 6 Comments

3 Quick Things to Do After an Event

Easter Shirt I thought I’d write a quick post following PodCamp NYC to suggest a few things one might do when you get back from an event. Here’s my reasoning: you’re bound to get a surge of new traffic on your blog, and you’re bound to make new friendships and connections that you’ll want to shore up via the various social software tools. So, here’s what I have.

  1. Write a new blog post, and in it, suggest how people can SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE to your blog (so that people can stay connected to the conversation after the event.)
  2. Go onto popular photo sharing sites like Flickr and search for photos tagged with the event’s most likely tags. Add these people as contacts so you can follow their photo-displayed lives and stay in touch visually.
  3. Kiss you family and reconnect. Never forget this one. Goes along with “do your laundry,” but sometimes, we get excited about what we want to do next and we forget to lovingly engage the people who empower us to go off and do things.

That’s all. I hope you’re well, that you’ve had a great event, and that we continue building our relationship in the future.

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  1. Things to Do After a Conference
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  3. The State of Things
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  • Anonymous

    4. Rest and Recover and Recharge. It is important to find the time to rest and recharge your personal batteries after running in overdrive for an extended period of time. Try to find the time to re-energize yourself. It is needed. And along the way, remember to drink plenty of water and hyrdate yourself.

    5. Identify the people who you wanted to meet who were at the event and who you couldn’t meet and reach out to them TODAY. Now that you have a shared common experience it should be easier to communicate with these people.

    6. Pretend this is your Ground Hogs Day. Look back at the event and think about what you might have wanted to do differently. WRITE THIS DOWN and look at this prior to attending the next itteration of the event.

  • http://pulverblog.pulver.com Jeff Pulver

    4. Rest and Recover and Recharge. It is important to find the time to rest and recharge your personal batteries after running in overdrive for an extended period of time. Try to find the time to re-energize yourself. It is needed. And along the way, remember to drink plenty of water and hyrdate yourself.

    5. Identify the people who you wanted to meet who were at the event and who you couldn’t meet and reach out to them TODAY. Now that you have a shared common experience it should be easier to communicate with these people.

    6. Pretend this is your Ground Hogs Day. Look back at the event and think about what you might have wanted to do differently. WRITE THIS DOWN and look at this prior to attending the next itteration of the event.

  • http://www.ldpodcast.com Whitney

    Jeff has great points. Reflection, after actionreports for those putting on the event are all important- you can never get any better until you’re willing to look at what went really right and what went , well, wrong, or less right than you hoped.
    I think the time invested in connecting with people afterwards is vital- and it should be fun, not a chore. And remember even in the non-online world, social and interactivity are what it’s all about. So go have lunch with someone you met if they’re local- have coffee- you’ll get more out of that than any number of emails or phone calls.

  • http://www.ldpodcast.com Whitney

    Jeff has great points. Reflection, after actionreports for those putting on the event are all important- you can never get any better until you’re willing to look at what went really right and what went , well, wrong, or less right than you hoped.
    I think the time invested in connecting with people afterwards is vital- and it should be fun, not a chore. And remember even in the non-online world, social and interactivity are what it’s all about. So go have lunch with someone you met if they’re local- have coffee- you’ll get more out of that than any number of emails or phone calls.

  • http://prblognews.com Mark Rose

    Hey Chris:

    Thanks for all your hard work and inspiration at PodCamp NYC. It was a real eye opener for me. I want to support the PodCamp movement. See my review at http://prblognews.com Thanks!!

    Mark Rose
    Editor, PRBlogNews

  • http://prblognews.com Mark Rose

    Hey Chris:

    Thanks for all your hard work and inspiration at PodCamp NYC. It was a real eye opener for me. I want to support the PodCamp movement. See my review at http://prblognews.com Thanks!!

    Mark Rose
    Editor, PRBlogNews