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Whether you attend industry conferences, or even local Chambers of Commerce meetings, what you do after the event can be as important as what you do while you there.

Here are a few hot tips for your post-live-event social networking efforts.

Upload Photos To Facebook

As soon as possible, upload photos you took during the event to your Facebook profile and fan pages. Create an album for the event. Add captions that make people smile – not just reporting the news. You may also want to link to the websites of the people in the photos to help them get more exposure. Be sure to tag your friends who appear in the images. This will make sure your photos show up on their profile – otherwise the images are virtually invisible to everybody else.

Tag Photos Other People Took

To be honest, tagging photos is a bit of a hassle if you took a lot of pictures. But this is an opportunity for you more than it is a challenge. Since a lot of people still don’t take the time to tag photos, or they may not be friends on Facebook with those in the pictures, you have a chance for added visibility.

When you’re looking through photos from an event and you see someone who hasn’t been tagged – go ahead and tag them. This will help the person who didn’t have the time to tag, will give the tagged person more exposure, and your profile picture and name will appear on the tagged person’s wall for connecting them. Just be sure that the person actually IS in the picture!

Upload Tips Video From The Event

Hopefully, during the event, you shot some video using a Flip or some other camera. Perhaps it was just a quick pan of the crowd, or maybe you created a tip video like this one.

Of course, it won’t do you any good if the video remains on your camera. So be sure to upload the video to YouTube, Facebook, etc. Make sure it’s uploaded directly to Facebook, by the way – not just posted as a link from YouTube. This is the only way you can tag the video with people inside (just like the photos above).

Create A Mashup Video Of Event Photos

A day or two after the event, you should see enough photos online to do this big post-event strategy. Using your images, and those that have been publicly posted, create a mashup video.

This can be done with simple tools like Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, or Camtasia. But I prefer the speed and style of Animoto. Use their music, or upload your own royalty-free music clip and let Animoto do its thing. They have a free version, and a paid version (which I use so I can make longer videos).

Here are two examples of videos I’ve made with Animoto.

This one is from Willie Crawford’s Birthday Bash, March 2009

And this one from Adam Urbanski’s Info Profits Success Bootcamp

Both of these videos were made in mere minutes with Animoto. And the second one features a song written and performed by my mastermind partner Bobby Medina.

Take Action Revise Later

My final tip for you is to make sure you take action and revise later. Speed is a critical element to the success of these strategies. If you wait more than a week to get these things online, they will lose a lot of their impact. When people get home, they are most excited about the event they just attended.

Got another tip for making the most out of an event once you get home? Post it below!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Hope to see you at a live event soon, and get our pictures together. To see where I’ll be next, check out my internet marketing events schedule.

By Bob Jenkins

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