With more than 500 million active users, tradeshow managers already know that they should be using Facebook to promote their shows and engage attendees, exhibitors and sponsors.

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With the recent release of its mobile app for the iPhone, Meeting Professionals International (MPI) affirmed its commitment to expanding ways meeting and event professionals can access the career enhancing content being developed by the association.

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Learn how our surveyed trade show attendees view their show experience.

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With continued global focus on the 'greening of meetings', technology is fast becoming the 'x-factor' in the success of future business events.

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This article reviews the way attendees are shopping at trade shows. It recaps the latest trends in mobile adoption at tradeshows, and looks at some examples of how smart marketers are catering to attendees with tradeshow mobile solutions.

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I purchased my first mobile, the size of a house brick, in 1989. It cost the same as a small house, and had to be carried in a briefcase.

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As a follow up to the last post, the creaters of MeetingApps.com wrote a more-detailed description of what their web portal offers! If you are a meeting planner, you must check out their website as you will find tools to make your job much easier.

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This year, hundreds of new mobile phone applications designed for meeting planners, meeting attendees and exhibitors were introduced to the market, and many more are on their way.

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Why you NEED an iPad if you are in the trade show business. The iPad will change the way that we experience and participate in events. There is no better device to consume content and trade shows have never been more content rich than they are today.

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Mobile phones are changing the meeting experience, from how we interact with a destination to the way we register on site. Here are five new applications that illustrate the trend.

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SCVNGR, a Cambridge-Mass.-based company whose technology uses geo-social technology, has built a game platform that's part scavenger hunt, part mobile tour guide, part Foursquare-esque networking tool.

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How a cutting-edge technology show created a new way for attendees to navigate the event.

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Bill Kilburg was wowed by an event app he used as an attendee last winter. He could quickly consult the schedule, confirm seminar locations, read speaker bios and send messages to other attendees -- all by running one application on his smartphone.

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When Apple's iPad launched in April, it was marketed primarily as a consumer device for reading, playing games and viewing media. But as the tablet computer's popularity has grown, so too has its usefulness in other arenas, including business.

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Super Planner is a new iPhone business app for the professional planner. Developed by Howard Givner and acclaimed by Event Solutions and BizBash Magazines.

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Much of the reason for the continuing excitement about smartphones and tablets is due to the availability of free and inexpensive "apps" – small applications that let users customize their travel, restaurant and business tools.

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Technology forecaster and business strategist Daniel Burrus believes that meeting planners who aren’t developing mobile technology apps (short for applications) are making a big mistake.

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Michael Pinchera reviews some of the tantalizing apps for Android and Apple devices, for driving meeting and event success.

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The iPhone has opened numerous doors for increased productivity on the go and as apps are introduced with little end in sight, there are seemingly more possibilities to shuttle that productivity to the tradeshow industry

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EventMobi’s mobile app gives attendees the ability to access event information on their smart phones.

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