EventMingle Creates Call Center Lounge
EventMingle creates online community for 9th Annual Call Center Week.
Bend, OR, May 12, 2008 --(PR.com)-- EventMingle today announced it has been selected as the official online social networking application for the 9th Annual Call Center Week, being held June 22-26, 2008 at the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. Call Center Week is produced by IQPC and is largest event with senior level practitioner speakers providing real world insight on what it takes to achieve world-class call center status. This event is the fastest growing call center event around with over 900+ previous attendees.
For this conference, EventMingle has created a custom online community for their attendees, speakers and exhibitors called Call Center Lounge. You can find it on the web at:
http://www.eventmingle.com/event/CCW08/default.aspx
Call Center Lounge offers participants these features:
• Matching and Collaboration Tools – Call Center Lounge will match attendees, speakers and exhibitors based on their personal profile and goals for the event. Call Center Lounge promotes networking among all participants.
• Custom Daily Planner – Participants can manage all of their schedules and tasks by building a custom Daily Planner they can print and take with them to the event. The Daily Planner includes all meetings, breakout sessions, people to meet, exhibitors to visit, products to see and a list of people who have asked to meet with them.
• Internal E-mail System – Attendees, speakers and exhibitors will use Call Center Lounge's built-in e-mail system to communicate without revealing personal contact information.
• Advanced Search Features - Participants can search for people based on location, title and interests. Attendees also can meet other people who plan to attend a specific conference session or Exhibitor. Exhibitors can connect with attendees interested in their specific products and services, find Speakers who are covering their products and can also identify other Exhibitors who would make a good business partner.
• Detailed Online Exhibitor Directory - Exhibitors can publish extended information, including a searchable product directory, current news releases and scheduled booth events. Exhibitors also can give attendees the ability to schedule appointments with booth personnel.
• Press Center - Attendees can use the Call Center Lounge portal to view all recent news releases from exhibiting companies.
• Message Forums - The message forums allow people to discuss exhibitors, news releases, products, special events, exhibitor giveaway items and questions about the conference as well as logistic questions about hotels and transportation.
Lisa Schulman, Sector Manager for IQPC states, "With Web 2.0 and new social media we are looking to increase the level of personal networking that occurs online before the event starts. EventMingle allows us to create a conference community for our attendees in which they can reach out and make introductions based on definable goals they've developed. Since participants start to interact weeks before the event we're able offer a networking experience like never before. Added to that each participant can use EventMingle's custom Daily Planner to organize meetings, sessions and tasks, participants arrive organized resulting in a better overall conference experience."
“We’re very pleased to be working with IQPC again to enable Sponsors, Exhibitors and Delegates to network and plan their activities before traveling to the event. We built and customized the Call Center Lounge so these call center professionals and business leaders would have a unique community for discussing best practices for building world class call centers. We believe this community will help extend the event by allowing all participants to meet online now, before they arrive in Las Vegas.” Stated Jim Harrer, cofounder, EventMingle.
About Call Center Week
Call Center Week is produced by IQPC, one of the largest conference companies, and it is the industry's leading event where contact centers can come to learn how to implement best practices and achieve customer service excellence. Whether it’s learning from the leaders, networking with peers or meeting the vendor that's going to kick start the next best call center idea - Call Center Week gives attendees the time, space and structure to have it all. For more information about Call Center Week, please visit
http://www.callcenterweek.com
About EventMingle
EventMingle is the first Web-based, online social networking technology designed to cater to the tradeshow industry. EventMingle enables attendees, exhibitors and speakers to collaborate online prior, during and after the event. EventMingle improves networking among all participants while helping participants create an “action plan” prior to leaving for the event. EventMingle was launched in December 2005.
EventMingle is a wholly owned subsidiary of Specialty Match Network, a privately owned company based in Bend, Oregon. See http://www.EventMingle.com for more info.
For more info about EventMingle, contact Jim Harrer, 949-607-0980
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For this conference, EventMingle has created a custom online community for their attendees, speakers and exhibitors called Call Center Lounge. You can find it on the web at:
http://www.eventmingle.com/event/CCW08/default.aspx
Call Center Lounge offers participants these features:
• Matching and Collaboration Tools – Call Center Lounge will match attendees, speakers and exhibitors based on their personal profile and goals for the event. Call Center Lounge promotes networking among all participants.
• Custom Daily Planner – Participants can manage all of their schedules and tasks by building a custom Daily Planner they can print and take with them to the event. The Daily Planner includes all meetings, breakout sessions, people to meet, exhibitors to visit, products to see and a list of people who have asked to meet with them.
• Internal E-mail System – Attendees, speakers and exhibitors will use Call Center Lounge's built-in e-mail system to communicate without revealing personal contact information.
• Advanced Search Features - Participants can search for people based on location, title and interests. Attendees also can meet other people who plan to attend a specific conference session or Exhibitor. Exhibitors can connect with attendees interested in their specific products and services, find Speakers who are covering their products and can also identify other Exhibitors who would make a good business partner.
• Detailed Online Exhibitor Directory - Exhibitors can publish extended information, including a searchable product directory, current news releases and scheduled booth events. Exhibitors also can give attendees the ability to schedule appointments with booth personnel.
• Press Center - Attendees can use the Call Center Lounge portal to view all recent news releases from exhibiting companies.
• Message Forums - The message forums allow people to discuss exhibitors, news releases, products, special events, exhibitor giveaway items and questions about the conference as well as logistic questions about hotels and transportation.
Lisa Schulman, Sector Manager for IQPC states, "With Web 2.0 and new social media we are looking to increase the level of personal networking that occurs online before the event starts. EventMingle allows us to create a conference community for our attendees in which they can reach out and make introductions based on definable goals they've developed. Since participants start to interact weeks before the event we're able offer a networking experience like never before. Added to that each participant can use EventMingle's custom Daily Planner to organize meetings, sessions and tasks, participants arrive organized resulting in a better overall conference experience."
“We’re very pleased to be working with IQPC again to enable Sponsors, Exhibitors and Delegates to network and plan their activities before traveling to the event. We built and customized the Call Center Lounge so these call center professionals and business leaders would have a unique community for discussing best practices for building world class call centers. We believe this community will help extend the event by allowing all participants to meet online now, before they arrive in Las Vegas.” Stated Jim Harrer, cofounder, EventMingle.
About Call Center Week
Call Center Week is produced by IQPC, one of the largest conference companies, and it is the industry's leading event where contact centers can come to learn how to implement best practices and achieve customer service excellence. Whether it’s learning from the leaders, networking with peers or meeting the vendor that's going to kick start the next best call center idea - Call Center Week gives attendees the time, space and structure to have it all. For more information about Call Center Week, please visit
http://www.callcenterweek.com
About EventMingle
EventMingle is the first Web-based, online social networking technology designed to cater to the tradeshow industry. EventMingle enables attendees, exhibitors and speakers to collaborate online prior, during and after the event. EventMingle improves networking among all participants while helping participants create an “action plan” prior to leaving for the event. EventMingle was launched in December 2005.
EventMingle is a wholly owned subsidiary of Specialty Match Network, a privately owned company based in Bend, Oregon. See http://www.EventMingle.com for more info.
For more info about EventMingle, contact Jim Harrer, 949-607-0980
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