A top reason for attending an event is to connect with likeminded individuals. In this session, you will learn how to empower attendees to make new connections and strengthen existing relationships to foster and expand their professional and personal networks using DoubleDutch.
Perfect For: Sales Kickoffs, Incentive and Rewards Trips, Corporate Internal Meetings, Training or Seminars, Roadshows, User or Partner Conferences, Financial Services Client Events, Conferences, Medical or Scientific Conferences, Expos or Tradeshows, Executive Summits, Customer Advisory Boards
4. How do you currently
facilitate networking
at your events?
5. How Does DoubleDutch Think About Networking?
● Using technology to facilitate conversations
• Assisted serendipity!!
● To enable parties to make lasting business connections to further their
individual business goals/desired ROI
6. Which Features Can Achieve Rich Networking Data?
● Following/People Recommendations
● Topic Channels
● 1:1 Meetings
13. Putting the Data to Work - Long Lasting Connections
Send attendee links to people’s profiles that they followed or mentioned
Follows (per user) and @mentions
Find sessions that attendees had in common and surface lists
Bookmarks (per user)
How many meetings scheduled/accepted/cancelled? Continue the conversation!
Which companies or attendee groups are meeting?
1:1 Meeting Data
Find what people are talking about and what they are interested in. Alert your marketing teams of themes
All Comments/Updates/Likes (Per User)
14. Putting the Data to Work - In Person Connections
Find your top channel members and connect them outside of the app
Set up extra space for meet-up groups based on interests
Create tables at breakfast or cocktail hours for missed connections in the app
Channel Engagement (All Time Per User)
1:1 Meeting Data
15. In Summary
● Map networking goals!
● Elect goal-minded features
● Generate data
● Act
What will you do at your next event?
Encourage them to brainstorm what they can do with it
Sift out their action items
Pie in the sky
Long lasting connections
Interact with the app to post best practices and findings
Top 5-10 list of actions relevant to the goal
Versatile on who you’re addressing
Pepper in some references to the different marketing personas and what data they could use
Business cards