#solaris blunder

[moraymoth]

SOALRIS DREAMSWAP REFERENCE

MEAN SQUAD (SHARED WITH @weirdplexbutok)

Names: Eclipse (Nightmare), Blade (Cross), Blunder (Error)

Age: around 23-26 depending on what setting

Pronouns: He/They (NM), He/Him(Cross), He/Him(Error)

Sexualities: Gay Male(NM) Bisexual(Cross), Pansexual(Error)

Phobias:

Nightmare - Thanatophobia(Death), Autophobia (Abandonment), Trypanophobia (Needles), Thalassophobia (Deep Water), Acrophobia(Heights)

Cross - Cartilogenophobia(Bones), Phasmophobia(Supernatural), Autophobia(Abandonment), Rejection + Loss

Error - Haphephobia(Touch), Aerophobia(Flying), Pyrophobia(Fire), Claustrophobia(Small Spaces), Formidophobia(Scarecrows)

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Eclipses Past:

Eclipse grew up in a small village with his friend, Solar. Solar and Eclipse were close and always seemed to get along out of the sight of the villagers. Eclipse always had admired Solar and his 'honesty', what he didn't know is that Solar was telling villagers behind his back to fuck up his life. Solar wasn't as honest or truthful as Eclipse had known, Solar wanted power. More than half the week Solar would disappear in the villages, leaving Eclipse to sit alone at the tree and work out on the branches of the tree. Usually, villagers would stop by and pull his hair and hit him with bats. He was surprised to see it wasn't going to happen that day, as Solar approached the tree. He sent Eclipse to go get something from the bakery. Once Eclipse had returned, Solar was holding one of the untouchable gold apples and scarrscarfing it down. Eclipse had dropped the delivery and rushed over to stop him, but just as he approached - he had been flung into a wall. Picking up the apple that had come with him, he took a small bite from it. He felt his veins weaken as Solar stared down at him. Solar had two pairs of golden and bronze wings before he flew towards Eclipse and slammed his head into the wall. Eclipse was already feeling weaker than before, and this did not help. Solar dug into the others' skin and began ripping out some of his ribs, in which Eclipse shrieked while Solar taunted him. Eclipse used the magic from the apple to pull himself into a portal, stumbling and weak on the floor. He did not look very well, as blood poured from the wounds and his head.

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Blades Past:

UNKNOWN

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Blunders Past:

Blunder was a next-door neighbor to Cyanide. Occasionally, Cyanide would stop by Blundrrs house bearing gifts or peaking through hid windows. Blunder always felt unsettled by the other but labeled him Blue. For awhile, Blunder dealt with it and then went to confront Cyanide. Cyanide didn't appreciate that the other didn't like the fact that he just wanted to be friends, as Blunder got ready to move the next day. Blunder stopped by Cyanides house to say his goodbyes, going but as he opened the door there had been cyanide laying opened on thr counter, with Papyrus on the floor. Blunder stepped back, Blue coming from the room and waving. Blunder immediately booked it, and Cyanide chased him - begging for forgiveness. To this day, Cyanide searches for Blunder to ruin his new life for running away.

[hungwy]

"Lem noted that the critic who promulgated the Freudian idea actually blundered by basing his psychoanalysis on dialogue from the English translation [of Solaris], whereas his diagnosis would fail on the idioms in the original Polish text." This is such an embarrassing blunder

[crusherthedoctor]

Sonic Heroes: Sweet or Shite? - Part 1: SILVER

There are some heroes I like. And there are some heroes I don’t like. But why do I feel about them the way I do? That’s where this comes in.

This is a series in which I go into slightly more detail about my thoughts on the heroes in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and why I think they either work well, or fall flat (or somewhere in-between). I’ll be giving my stance on their designs, their personalities, and what they had to show for themselves over the course of time. Two things to keep in mind:

1. These reviews will be focusing mainly on game portrayals. Though alternate media will occasionally be mentioned, it'll be for the sake of adding onto a point if a portrayal is similar enough, or to compare and contrast if a portrayal is different enough.

2. These are just my own personal thoughts. Whether you agree or disagree, feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions! I don’t bite. :>

Anyhow, for today’s installment, I decided to challenge myself by starting off with a complicated one. Born from the future, and never content to stay put in said future, it's the saviour whose debut came from the most unfortunate game... Silver the Hedgehog.

The Gist: Once upon a time, in the distant future, there was an idealistic young hedgehog named Silver, gifted with the power of telekinesis for reasons unknown. With his amazing potential, he was truly destined for a wonderful, prosperous li-just kidding, it was shit.

“All two of us.”

For as long as he knew, the world was forever plagued by Iblis, the terrible Flames of Disaster. Cities stood in ruin, flames stood high, the floor was lava... it was a bitter life to be certain, all thanks to Iblis. Not even defeating the titular creature did much good, since it would simply come back to be a shitty boss fight another day. What was he - and his friend, Blaze, a character we definitely never saw before and definitely didn't have a completely different backstory before - to do?

Trust the first person he sees, of course. Even if they look like they might be related to the same Flames of Disaster that he fights so constantly.

If he had eyelids, he'd be winking at the camera.

This mysterious fellow, Mephiles the Dark, informed Silver that if he were to wipe out Iblis for real, he would need to take a trip into the past, and eliminate the root of the problem... Sonic the Hedgehog? That was what Mephiles claimed, yes. What was his proof? There was no proof.

That was good enough for Silver.

Oh look, it's Fleetway Sonic.

After an elaborate series of events, which should sound exciting but really isn't because it was just Silver going “Iblis Trigger grrr” in varying tones of voice, he was finally able to corner the blue hedgehog... twice! And despite having less fighting know-how than the hero who saved the world plenty of times, he effortlessly came close to killing the blue hedgehog... twice!

This looks like a jobbing for...

Why twice? The first time was halted by Sonic's friend Amy Rose, who Silver had met beforehand after she mistook him for Sonic, an understandable mistake that even the keenest of eyes would be forgiven for making.

The second time was also interrupted, this time by Shadow the Hedgehog. There's only room for one controversial non-blue male hedgehog in this franchise, sonny boy. Actually, his reasons were more benevolent than that: he wanted to show Silver the truth about what was going on, by time travelling to the incident that gave birth to Iblis. Why was one able to to this, so long as more than one Chaos Emerald was present? No one knew.

That was good enough for Silver.

“I challenge you to a dumb-off.”

As it turned out, Iblis was one half of a sun god called Solaris, the other half being the aforementioned Mephiles. The Duke of Soleanna wanted to reunite with his late wife by harnessing Solaris' power, which succeeded from a certain point of view since he's dead now too. The resulting blunder split Solaris into two halves. One half was all brawn, with little capacity for intelligence. The other half was Iblis.

Understanding the error of his ways, and after making peace with Sonic, Silver went back to the future to try something different, which consisted of doing the same thing he always did. Luckily for him, the script decided it would work this time, albeit at the cost of Blaze sacrificing herself... Maybe? Sort of? It’s not entirely clear what happened to her, and it’s not like this was the last we ever saw of her.

~La laaaaaa, la laaaaaa, la laaaaaa, heading to a better game, la laaaaaa~

But ohhhhh nooooo, turns out THAT didn't solve anything either! In the present, Sonic was killed by Mephiles, after the latter realised he should probably do that already if he wanted to make any progress at all with his plan. This incident led to Iblis being brought into the present, and they fused to become the omnipotent Solaris once more. Such power... such divinity... such devastation...

Actually, he was really easy. The antlion from Underground Zone was harder.

Manchild robots - 1, god of time - 0.

With their super forms in tow, Silver, Shadow, and the revived Sonic joined forces to defeat Solaris, with Sonic in particular going the extra step in retconning Solaris out of existence entirely. Since time itself reset, meaning Iblis was no longer a memory, Silver's timeline was given a second chance. What was he to look forward to in this new, promising future?

Shit.

The Design: Let's take a closer look at Silver's appearance, shall we?

Or rather, a certain thing that's wrong with it.

He's holding up fifteen fingers.

Yes, you all know what I'm pointing to: the hairstyle. Let it be known that I'm very aware of the intention behind this design choice. It's supposed to be based on the Japanese Red Maple Leaf, which holds a lot of relevant symbolism for Silver's character. This is a fine idea in theory, and I can respect the intent and the creativity.

But here's the thing: If it looks like a ganja leaf, people are going to say it looks like a ganja leaf. I know some fans will gnash their teeth at me saying this, but the fact of the matter is that intentions and ideas, no matter how good they may be on paper, don't always translate well into the final product. Unleashed Secret Rings Black Knight Sonic '06 in general is certainly no stranger to showcasing examples of that, and Silver's hairstyle is no exception. There are ways to incorporate symbolism in a character’s design without making them look like meme bait in the process, and no amount of “umm ackshually” will change that, I'm afraid.

That said, there's another reason why I'm staying clean of Silver marijuana: it doesn't work for a hedgehog character. With the other hedgehogs, their hairstyles are simple and get the point across: Sonic's goes without saying, Shadow's is more angular to befit a slightly rougher hero, and Amy's is a cute bob cut of sorts. But Silver? Even without the ganja, you've still got the two tentacles making up the back of his head.

I'd rather not be reminded of hentai quills, thanks.

“I thought Crusher-san would like it :’(”

I do find it hilarious that they went through numerous designs for Silver, and this was what they chose to go with. Some of his prototype designs may have fared better had any of them been used instead... but we didn't end up with any of those ones. We ended up with this one, therefore I'm judging this one.

But don’t worry, it’s not all bad with Silver...

The Personality: As far as actual character goes, Silver's personality is as straightfoward as most characters in the series, yet it's no less interesting, because it took a while for it to fully evolve to what it currently is. The seeds of his character - a good-natured yet awkward and rather insecure kind of guy, who doesn't fully understand how the present time works - have always been there, but it was often downplayed in earlier titles due to him being hungry for Iblis Trigger blood... or being an arsehole for no reason.

Although to be fair, everyone in Rivals is an arsehole for no reason.

Eventually though, after the writers gave him a Snickers, these traits got more opportunity to shine. Mostly in side media admittedly, but it's been noted in the games as well. With no Iblis to angst over, he's proven to be a surprisingly bubbly chap, who just wants to know how you're all doing, fellow anthro kids. And whereas his naivety was previously used for intended tragedy to benefit the evil plan of a guy who thought taking the -istoph- out of Mephistopheles would make him inconspicuous, now it's been used for a bunch of low-key contexts that do a much better job at endearing him to the player.

Finally, something I can relate to.

Hell, he even seems to have learned from the Mephiles incident, as he was quick to make it clear to the next shadowy deep-voiced anthro with demonic eyes he met that he wasn't gonna fall for any of them fibs no more, ya hear?

“YouTube and Twitter don’t count.”

All in all, it works well enough, in my opinion. His personality does pave the way for some funny and wholesome moments, and since they’re no longer trying to build him up like he’s Shadow 2.0, he's nowhere near as much of a tool as he was before. So I guess you could say... I like it?

Does this mean I can say that I like the character as a whole then, design and '06-induced idiocy aside?

Well, not quite...

The Execution: This is where the complication part comes into play. We know now that I like his personality, not so much his design, but that's only the half of it. It would be more accurate to say that I like his personality... and dislike everything else.

Aside from that, obviously.

For starters, the creation process for his character and story was summed up with, in their own words, “Think Trunks from Dragon Ball Z”. So he comes off as rather lazy and uninspired. Now I'm not expecting my Sonic characters to be 100% unique, there's always going to be similarities to other franchises no matter what you do, even if subconsciously or by complete coincidence. Taking inspiration in itself is no big deal at all.

But... was that it? Copying a DBZ character to such a blatant extent? Was there no other thought put into it?

Naturally, this ties into an overarching problem: the franchise's mid-00's habit of trying way too hard to be the anthro Dragon Ball Z. Sonic has had DBZ influences since the early days, with the Chaos Emeralds and Super Sonic, but it didn't assimilate itself into every waking aspect of his universe. It was merely an additional flavor that added to the complete package, in the same way that a Death Star with a moustache didn't mean the franchise was suddenly Star Wars the Hedgehog.

But come the turn of the millenium, nearly every main title in the series ended with Super Sonic and/or Super Shadow saving the day, while everyone else either stood around being useless, or only helping in ways that no one actually cares about. Including the in-universe President apparently, since only Sonic and Shadow were featured in the photo on his desk.

Amy smiled. “I guess the rest of us can go fuck ourselves, huh?”

This reached its peak with - of course - Sonic '06, with Silver in particular being an obvious result of this then-ongoing trend. And yes, it would be unfair to use him as a scapegoat, considering it was already a problem long before he turned up. But moreso than even Shadow, it's an era that Silver is forever a relic of, for better or for worse.

But it doesn't stop there. Since Silver is considered a mainstay character, his gimmick of being from the future also creates problems of its own, because in order for him to make further appearances, he keeps turning up for little explained reason, and thus he suffers the Deadly Six problem of being shoved into places where he doesn't belong, for fanservice's own sake. Take Sonic Colours DS for example, where he went back in time JUST to check out Eggman's theme park... Okay...?

On one hand, I’d visit it too, since it's made by Eggman. On the other hand, I’d stay clear of it, since it's made by Eggman.

And when there IS a justification with more weight to it? It's just recycling the '06 routine of trying to avert his ruined future, which isn't much better. The cause may differ depending on the story, but if his future is a permanent shitehole for one reason or another, he might as well cut out the middle man and stay in the present altogether, since that's where his friends are anyway. But they seem intent on not doing that, despite the future schtick being a noose around his neck at this point.

In hindsight, maybe this was a hint to how the rest of the arc would turn out.

And then there's his dynamic with a certain purple cat... No, not Big. The other one.

“I’m here, by the way.”

Simply put: I don't like this dynamic. At all. Or rather, I don't like how they keep milking it. Blaze's backstory was radically changed to justify her presence in Silver's future, and it really shows, since she barely even shows up half the time, as if the developers themselves forgot she was in the game. But her backstory has since been restored to her original alternate dimension interpretation, so hanging around with the grey hedgehog is all good now, right?

To be brutally honest, I probably wouldn't care for this dynamic regardless. But I would be more willing to tolerate it, and I'd refrain from groaning every time they're seen together... if they weren't intent on playing it up so much in spite of '06 being wiped out, sometimes with a bit of commentary involving their thoughts and memories, which only succeeds at making things more confusing. If Blaze is around, Silver will be nearby, and if he's not at first, he will be soon enough. This franchise does have a problem in general with restricting who's allowed to interact with who (I personally believe Sonic Heroes may have led to this, or at least it accelerated it), but I'd argue it's at its most insufferable here, with Blaze's potential and her entire world taking a backseat to being the sidekick of Ganja Man.

And you might say “Well, it's part of the franchise now, so you'll just have to accept it”. To which I ask: Have you accepted Two Worlds? Have you accepted Solo Sonica? Have you accepted Sonic's friends not doing much as of late?

Yeah. That's what I thought. “It’s just how it is” doesn’t mean you can’t criticise it.

Meanwhile, Marine is lucky enough to get so much as a shout out.

So yeah, I have quite an extensive list of grievances involving poor Silver. But... very little of it has to do with him, right? They're all indirect problems that he just so happens to be linked to, as opposed to someone like Chris Thorndyke, who is genuinely a shit character through and through. This is more comparable to Tails being bitchy in Lost World, or Amy being manipulative in Chronicles, or Sonic being a smug dumbass in IDW, or Shadow not wearing a Hawaiian shirt in Boom. Frustrating, regrettable, but not really the character's own fault.

Yet even after all that, there's one last kick in the teeth... How do you fix all this? And how do you fix it when he's since gained a sizable fandom, many of whom like him for these very attributes? If you leave it as it is, you're stuck with this big, awkward mess that everyone pretends to ignore. If you try to do something about it, you'll get complaints about disrespecting the True Silver Spirit, and you’ll get questions about why you didn't create a new character instead... And if you did use a new character for the sake of a clean slate, THEN you'd get complaints about not using Silver.

It's a tough call to be sure, and it's such a shame because like I said, I do appreciate his personality, so I can't say he's bad outright. But with all this... clutter, I can only put him in the average category. So, in he goes.

Crusher Gives Silver a: Thumbs Sideways!

Well, I'm glad this one's out of the way. Putting my thoughts into words with Silver was harder than it should have been. I do slightly regret starting this series off on a rather downer note, but rest assured, it's a lot more positive from this point onwards, since while I have higher praise for some heroes more than others, the hero characters as a whole fare a lot better than the majority of villains not named Eggman.

I guess you could say that I hope to show why Sonic's friends aren't as shitty as the haters would suggest. ;)

[kagrena]

hurricanes and solar flares I can feel you getting closer and the new day came nothing’s the same nothing’s the same

-- Solaris, Anastasia Minister

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“Take my hand.”

Usually, she would lead. It was where she felt safe, comfortable, in control. Untouchable, perhaps, if she were being completely frank with herself, and being completely frank with herself a habit she was still in the process of learning. 

“Like this?” 

A strong hand takes hold of her fingers with a gentle ease. It is softer than she expected. It causes a slight tremble to run down her spine. She pulls it into position.

“Yes. Exactly like that.”

Across the room a small contraption sat on a bare floor. A box, whose insides were a fraught tangle of wires, hums a tune through a tinny speaker that she knew so well she could wrap herself in it like a blanket. Low voices, whispered dissonance, a rhythm that comes and goes like the tide, that left her imagining she was the last woman to watch the sea leave.  

“I’ve never done this before, you know.”

“You have not danced?”

“Well, not properly properly danced. Never really learned any steps, or any of that.” A quick grin comes to her partners face. “The sort of dancing I know usually involves a bottle of whiskey, first, before blundering around on the dancefloor.”

“We could do that afterwards, if you’d like.”

Her partner blinks. Perhaps in surprise.

“Oh, I was-- I’m joking, Kagrenac.”

“And? I’m still interested.”

“Well, I want you to show me your world first,” says her partner. “It’s endlessly fascinating.” 

“Easy to say, when you’ve spent the last two thousand years in a box.”

“A box.” Her partner snorts. “You people, you can fit an entire orchestra into a box. You could fit the most moving poetic epic that has graced our ears into a box. How is that not incredible? How is that not completely astounding?” 

She thinks about this, as her arms gently guide another into the correct shape, the right form. She wonders to herself about what boxes can and cannot do. Could a box contain all of her? Could a box hold her in place? 

“I suppose it is,” she says, eventually.

There is a moment of silence, a gap between tracks, as the spindle of a wheel struggles to reset itself into the correct place. They let the silence have its space as she shows her the next steps. The footwork is tricky.

It makes her feel useful, to do this. Safe, comfortable, and in control. Less like a woman, shattered, who had stitched herself back in shape with clever theories and skilful craftsmanship, but was still bent in the wrong way. To know that she can show her partner, a woman crafted of myth and legend and martyrdom, a woman who spoke as if she could spit fire, the vanguard of her time, something as mundane as a dance. 

When the needle clicks into place, and the song loops again, her partner asks her a question:

“Why are you interested?” 

“In you?”

“Oh, no, I mean, well, my life.” 

“Your life is interesting.”

“You already know how it goes. You practically recounted half of my life as if you had to recite it. You know how it all… ugh, well, you know all of that mess.”

Her partner stops, at that moment. 

Her hand was still in hers, her fingers still twirled up in hers, her pulse still resting on her skin, a skittering thing. She wonders who is really safe, here, in this box, which is cold and bare and without much of anything. She thinks of what comfort smells like, and how it is not here, in this empty box, to which she has brought music to for the first time in two thousand years. 

“I don’t know your life through your eyes. I would like to, though.” 

“Why?”

“Believe it or not, you are really interesting.”

Her partner laughs at that, although she does not quite catch the joke. A smile, broad enough to grasp in two hands, if she were feeling bold, grows on her partner’s face, as they lean closer. Enough for her voice to lower. 

“Kagrena, you’re something else, you know?”

“Am I?”

“Yes,” she says. “Yes you are.”

You still don’t quite understand the joke, and yet you find a smile of your own beginning to dance on your face.

 -----

Later, half a bottle of whiskey later, as Kagrenac finds herself struggling to hold anything even resembling poise or balance or elegance in place, she asks her - Can I call you that? Can I call you Rena? 

It feels comfortable. Not untouchable, though, not the cold comfort of a watchtower where the faces of others are distant speckles. It is something far closer to warm, strong hands encircling your own.

Yes, Kagrenac says.

[unmeisenshi]

Team Genesis: 👀 + Most embarrassing blunder in a mission.

Answer Honestly: Accepting!

“It had to be the one of the first missions we were on.  Solaris was with us, and we found our guy.  We had him cornered, and Solaris instructed us to throw a petrify orb at ‘em.  Urie wound up and accidentally hit our Charizard friend instead!”  Miles then burst out laughing.

Urie his his face behind his hands.  “Look, it was a mistake.  Can we just drop it?  I don’t really appreciate the teasing...”

“Oh, I’m only messing with ya. We all make mistakes, Urie.  You just gotta learn to laugh at them instead of getting hurt.”

Urie thought about it, and couldn’t help but chuckle.  “Well, Solaris’ face was pretty funny to look at.”

[latin-dr-robotnik]

Ah, shit, it’s 06′s anniversary again and I almost forgot. 

Originally wanted to write something about some popular ship you may know, but whatever.

So, what can I say? Only recently I’ve started to have much more fun playing Sonic ‘06, and that’s because Project 06 on PC is really pulling the game from whatever pit SEGA left it to rot and polishing it up to make it shine, at least gameplay wise.

About the original game, I came across its existence around 2010, when that old “Sonic 06 is a bad game and here’s why” video was published. Back then it felt like 06′s pure glory was completely unleashed (heh) on YouTube, and you can guess how, over the coming years, my opinion on the game would be influenced by wacky glitch videos and the two mammoth-sized (by early 2010′s standards) reviews by Clement and Johnny. 

I’m not the first one to say that Sonic ‘06 in general is a very mixed bag for me, there’s lot of good and bad to take from this game, and I constantly find myself looking at it, searching for something to elaborate and maybe even praise. The plot is a very good example of this: I love Silver’s absolution (heh) arc and the fact we are still seeing the aftermath of his separation from Blaze to this day; I also like a lot Shadow’s dark story, with its twists and turns (also twisted Mephiles, totally a pun); but then Sonic’s story shows up and I completely despise everything about it, it’s just dumb, the way is directed is dumb, the way Elise is written is dumb, the entire thing is just dumb incident after dumb incident until the Final Story where Mephiles snaps and puts a fucking end to that madness, Jesus. Also, what the hell was going on when they made the three trials? What a waste of time, and the Trial of Love (the one thing that could make or break the lore up to that point) was awfully unfinished. I don’t even approve the way they solved that mess of a plot by erasing it all. Even with all the shit I just gave it, the general plot deserves a place in “canon”, it makes everything more spicy to piece together for Sonic lore nerds.

Rant aside, another thing I always agreed with was the argument of the soundtrack being absolutely top tier. In fact, ‘06 has some of my all-time favorite tracks, like Flame Core - The Cavern, Soleanna New City, Aquatic Base - Level 1, White Acropolis - Snowy Peak and, of course, Solaris Phase 2. Vocal tracks like Dreams of an Absolution and His World are also somewhere along the top portions of my personal lists, and my 14-year-old self always loved to loudly sing Crush 40′s rendition of All Hail Shadow. I could even make a case for My Destiny, but I’m still warming up to that track.

So, in conclusion, another ‘06 anniversary, another chance for me to write about it. Is it a total trainwreck? Well, from a development standpoint of course it is, but I like to think the game has a lot more to offer besides “WORST GAME EVER!!11!! OMEGALUL”. It’s a fascinating game to study, as there are some very high highs, very low lows, and we could sit here talking about all those things in detail. But like Josh from TGC said last year (and I recommend watching that entire video, the lead up to that ending is just as brutal as the ending itself): the damage was done, on November 14th, 2006 this game killed not only Sonic’s shaky reputation after Heroes and Shadow, but also the Adventure formula and even went as far as to poison Sonic’s past. That’s a black mark the franchise could never wipe off its name, and I’d argue the possibility of another blunder of that caliber it’s something every fan fears everytime a new game is announced. 

This game’s anniversary is just so bittersweet on all fronts.

[imaginepiner]

Trove fall terraformers

#TROVE FALL TERRAFORMERS PATCH#

#TROVE FALL TERRAFORMERS FULL#

That was a pretty big deal considering afterwards, people(Alad V) didn't even know for sure if the moon ever existed, until now of course. The moon was sent to the Void by Lotus/Marguilis, not the Orokin in general. The moon is actually a perfect example of the problem. Well, it was described that sending anyone let alone children, to the void was generally against the strict guidelines of the Orokin. Subsequently, I assume that as long as you can somehow 'seal in' normal reality you're just fine. I think it was more than the Zariman failed - in the Rell comic you see a massive hole in it that's presumably letting the void in. How could they build towers in the void when sending a ship to the void drove the crew insane and gave children super powers? Even more interestingly, the lore for the Tenno, added well after the corrupted/orokin towers, implies that going to the void was dangerous in the first place, so the Orokin themselves would not "cross the fold". Again what we are doing with tens of thousands of empty Orokin towers is beyond me, but quite simply, there are no more Orokin construction projects.

#TROVE FALL TERRAFORMERS FULL#

In extermination(which actually used to stop spawning enemies) we are told that the tower is full of the corrupted and must be cleared out before it is any use to us. It is a relic from before the game had any story whatsoever. There was literally no way to control the infested, this is why the derelict is what it is, and basically why Tenno pilot the Warframes in the first place. The corrupted shouldn't even exist as far as lore is concerned. The Queens, the only known remnant of the original Orokin hierarchy, would be likely the most familiar with the extent of that knowledge that had ever existed. Grineer are clones, so I always felt it was more appropriate that they could respawn ad nauseum, but the whole story line with the Queens seems to indicate that Immortality is both rare and difficult to achieve. Index/Rathuum both do seem to imply that both Grineer and Corpus can replace advanced soldiers rapidly, thought it begs the question why we receive assassination missions at all if this were the case. The Tenno, Ostron, Solaris, Corpus, and Grineer are all Orokin. Hunhow has no reason to distinguish between humans now and then. Orokin is actually literally everyone besides Sentients, though it usually refers to the hierarchy of old before the war. There is some indication what occurred to him was similar to what happened to the Tenno, but they haven't expanded on it. same goes for orokin ships in the void - there's simply no way that there can be tens of thousands of corrupted (it would imply repeated strategic blunders on both sides), and it's more likely that you've been killing the same 50 dudes all over and over again with the caveat that the orokin designed the security system to stitch together and redeploy the corrupted as soon as possible and as fast as possible.Ĭanonically, you can justify killing the same dudes over and over again as many times as you please, except maybe for the grineer, who are even canonically cannon fodder anyways.Įveryone had hundreds of keys when the story was debut.

#TROVE FALL TERRAFORMERS PATCH#

the index brokers seem to be immortal, so it stands to reason that the corpus can patch you together almost instantly no matter how many croutons you've been chopped into (for a big fee ofc), and probably have some kind of hospital/factory hybrid dedicated to that purpose. Sorry to go off-topic but vor has a void key which could be a surrogate for oro (though it only finally corrupted him after he got cut up on ceres), hunhow calls alad explicitly "Orokin named Alad V", most grineer bigwigs are heads on/brains in mechanical bodies (vay hek going the extra mile). It would have been really cool to figure out where Cetus is based on that. I'm genuinely bummed you weren't onto something there. Whilst there might have been a completely different battle, that's entirely speculative compared to the one we know about. In turn, this means that Sentient battle mentioned in the Sacrifice and the battle on the plains are likely different battles. But alas, it's missing the specifics of chalk cliffs which make up most of the coastline. And some of the geography checks out with the plains - rolling hills, flat-bottom dry valleys, even a large river mouth onto the open ocean. I actually thought we'd managed to locate Cetus based on that thought.Īnyway, the Sentient battle does have confirmed location: It's the Sentient battle of Hull, which is in England, specifically Yorkshire. * Or you know, most Bones were from previously defeated Sentients ? Like the ones fought during the War ? We also dont know where the "Sentient Battle" Isah speaks of in "The Sacrifice" was.ĭamn.

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10 Excellent Tools You Must Apply In Web Performance Testing

Web Performance Testing Tools – Looking to test the heap pressure limit and execution of your web applications? Here are ten of the best web execution testing devices to guarantee that your application performs even in outrageous pressure and pinnacle traffic conditions.

This rundown incorporates authorized just as open source web performance testing apparatuses, yet you can discover free preliminary forms of most authorized instruments. Attempt your hand with these preliminary forms before you settle on your official conclusion. We should investigate them

Web Performance Testing Tools

WebLOAD

WebLOAD is a heap and web execution testing apparatus for web applications that empowers pressure and burden testing utilizing Adobe Flex, Ajax, HTML5, Oracle Forms, Microsoft .NET and different advancements. You can create load from on-premises machines or from the cloud.

The device is entirely simple to utilize, and it highlights programmed relationship, DOM-based account and playback, and different highlights. In view of JavaScript, the instrument underpins extensive scale testing with intricate and overwhelming client load conditions.

The instrument produces an unmistakable investigation of a web application's exhibition and usefulness, and it has a committed, solid customer base. It has additionally won a few honors. All the more essentially, it has a quite alluring evaluating and authorizing model.

WebLOAD has a broad scope of highlights and backings different web advancements, enabling you to perform load testing and copy gigantic client loads. You can rapidly manufacture tests, produce load and dissect the outcomes with a rich arrangement of reports that distinguishes explicit execution issues.

The heap situation is produced in JavaScript so you can make upgrades according to your necessities. The standard language is upgraded with inbuilt burden testing strategies and articles that offer HTTP usefulness, DOM usefulness, load techniques and the sky is the limit from there. The device additionally incorporates robotized relationship to discover and supplant session IDs, time and other powerful qualities.

Apache JMeter

An open source load testing device, Apache JMeter is additionally based on a Java stage. In spite of the fact that it is considered for the most part as a web exhibition testing apparatus, you can likewise coordinate it with the test plan. You can make load test and utilitarian test designs too. The apparatus can be stacked into a system or server so as to evaluate its execution under different working conditions.

Apache JMeter was first presented for web application testing, however today it is utilized for various different purposes too. It is especially valuable to test the execution of Java objects, Perl Scripts and Servlets and different assets.

The instrument can likewise test the execution of static assets, web dynamic dialects like ASP.NET, Java, and PHP, databases, questions, FTP servers and substantially more. It can mimic a substantial burden on server gatherings, singular servers, items or systems to evaluate its quality and execution under various sorts of burdens. You can utilize the JMeter to produce a graphical examination of your web application's execution or to test your server, article or content conduct under substantial simultaneous burden.

Apache JMeter can load and test the execution of a few sorts of servers/conventions:

·         Web-HTTP, HTTPS

·         FTP

·         Cleanser/REST

·         LDAP

·         Database by means of JDBC

·         Message-situated middleware through JMS

·         MongoDB

·         SMTP, POP3, and IMAP email

·         Local directions and shell contents

·         TCP

Different highlights of this instrument include:

100 percent Java virtue

Convenientce

A full multithreading system for simultaneous inspecting by different strings and examining of different capacities at the same time by string gatherings

·         A GUI structure that empowers quicker investigating and test plan creation

·         Storing and disconnected examination

·         Test outcomes replaying

·         Pluggable samplers for further testing capacities

·         Pluggable clocks for a wide decision of burden insights

·         Information representation and examination modules for personalization and extensibility

·         Capacities to give dynamic test information or information control

·         Scriptable samplers in JSR223-perfect and BSF-good dialects

HP LoadRunner

Hewlett Packard's LoadRunner is an available web exhibition testing apparatus that can comprehend and decide the execution of a framework under burden. A key favorable position of this instrument is that it can deal with and create a huge number of clients at the same time. It empowers you to assemble all execution related and foundation-based data.

LoadRunner comprises of different separate instruments: Virtual User Generator, Load Generator and Analysis, and Controller. It works by making a situation that contains the content that will be executed. The quantity of virtual clients required is additionally created, alongside different essentials for running the test and producing the normal outcomes. The quantity of virtual clients to be created could go from a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand.

The situation could be manual or objective arranged, in which the instrument naturally produces the situations dependent on recently determined objectives by the analyzer. The arrangement of activities to be performed are recorded onto the virtual client content. A heap generator is then used to run the clients, producing the essential dimension of burden on the framework. The procedures to be estimated are spoken to as exchanges. When the heap is created, the framework conduct is checked and broke down.

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·         Judicious Web Performance Tester

The Rational Performance Tester from IBM is a computerized web act testing apparatus for web and server-based applications in which there is an info and yield process. The instrument produces a demo of the first exchange procedure, assembling and dissecting factual data to build proficiency. Any server or site spillage can be promptly distinguished and corrected, and it tends to be utilized to make a blunder free, viable distributed computing administration.

The device can recognize the nearness and underlying driver of bottlenecks in framework execution. It consolidates a few conveniences includes alongside point by point examination, streamlining test creation, lead age, and information accumulation procedures to guarantee that their web applications can suit the required client loads.

NeoLoad

NeoLoad by France-based Netosys is a Java-based web execution testing instrument that can be utilized for estimating and dissecting a site's act. It can likewise be utilized to dissect further strides to be taken dependent on the execution of the site and final product of the tests. This, thusly, improves and enhance the execution of your web application.

The instrument works by expanding the traffic on your site and after that breaking down the execution of the application under substantial burden. You get the chance to comprehend the limit of the application and what number of clients it can deal with at the same time. Written in Java, NeoLoad is accessible in French and English. It reenacts client action in web and portable applications too, and screens the foundation conduct. You can look over cloud-based burden generators for the execution test.

NeoLoad can be utilized for robotizing the total Web 2.0 suite, which incorporates Flex, Silver Light, Web Services, Web and Multimedia. The client can decide the quantity of burden generators that are required and the LGs from LAN. They can likewise reenact 2G-4G and WiFi versatile systems with varieties in flag qualities.

The device can be coordinated with outsider devices like Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Introscope and Site Scorpion for a profound jump investigation on servers. In any case, SLA setup isn't accessible on this instrument for breaking down the outcomes. At last, it is an exhibition testing answer for portable and web applications that can be utilized for running cloud-based tests. In the event that you or your execution group needs a device that can investigate and co-relate test results with crude information, NeoLoad would be an extraordinary decision. The instrument is perfect on working frameworks Solaris, Linux and Windows.

LoadUI

The following open source pressure test and web execution testing device in this rundown is LoadUI, once more to gauge the execution of a web application. The device works really well when it is coordinated with the soapUI practical testing instrument. It is a standout amongst the most intelligent and adaptable testing apparatuses as well, enabling you to make, refresh and design your tests while the application is tried. It gives a visual guide too for the client with a simplified component.

LoadUI is a long way from a static act apparatus. It offers propelled report creating and investigation producing highlights that let you inspect the genuine execution of the web application by including new information even as the application is being tried. You don't need to restart the device each time that you change or alter the application. LoadUI gets refreshed naturally in the interface. It is a cross-stage instrument, so it should work for any major working framework. It is additionally accessible for nothing, given that it is open framework.

WAPT

This specific web execution testing instrument can be utilized for intranet applications and sites. WAPT is short for Web Performance Testing Tool, and it goes about as a scale or breaking down device for estimating the yield and execution of a web application and related interface. 

The apparatuses help measure the execution of any web-related interface, web administration or web application. You can utilize this apparatus to test the application execution in various situations and burden conditions.

The apparatus gives point by point data on the virtual clients and its yield to the clients amid burden testing. It is considered by numerous individuals to be a standout amongst the best and most practical apparatuses for investigating the execution of web administrations. 

The WAPT instrument can likewise test the similarity of a web application with working frameworks and programs. It tends to be utilized for testing the similarity with Windows applications in specific cases.

[yamuna009]

Oracle Financials Interview Questions

Q. Make another GL module in a similar machine

I have to make another arrangement of database Oracle Finance and program in a similar machine having the Sun Solaris framework.

Will I simply duplicate the volume of the program and information?

Or on the other hand, do I have to make another establishment?

On the off chance that I have to make a duplicate of the GL module set database, is it conceivable on the off chance that I just duplicate the information, and make another pointing map from the program?

An: In request to make another arrangement of database Oracle Finance and program in a similar machine, you should make another occasion. You can make a new example in a similar machine.

Q. Prophet Receivables – Interface

Would you be able to disclose to me which tables get hit in the 'Receivables' module when the receivables interface is run from Order Entry?

A: We have the RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL table to be populated. From that point, AR picks information for making a receipt utilizing "autoinvoice".

While Autoinvoice gets information from ra_interface_lines_all, it likewise picks information from ra_interface_salescredits_all and ra_interface_distributions_all on the off chance that it is available.

Q. Prophet Financial issue

I have introduced two cases (test, vision) of Oracle Financial 11i for vision example and everything appears to be alright. In any case, in testing a case subsequent to logging utilizing sysadmin/sysadmin ini IE5.0, a blunder comes after the applet has begun.

I discover this mistake:

"Application FND-01516: invalid username or secret key or database

The tns80listnerAPP_TEST isn't beginning."

How might I understand this?

A: You have quite recently discovered that the database would not begin accurately in getting the mistake in distinguishing control document;

Go to the COMMON_TOP/administrator/introduce catalog

/u202/train/d01/prophet/prodcomn/administrator/make

To understand this, run "adcrdb.sh". This made the control document.

Restart the database, and afterward, take a stab at interfacing with applications that will finish the association.

Q. Client versus Diary Entries Balances

This is the situation I have:

At the point when a receipt is made in AR AND the client changes to the AR (1070), it charges to an option that is other than 1070.

The client balance is expanded to mirror that he owes us cash however the Journal sections for 1070 stays at 0.

I accept the Aged VS and the diary passages for a client ought to be equivalent. I am mindful the receipt ought to have utilized 1070 yet it didn't, which implies a client blunder.

Do you realize how to fix this sort of mistake?

If it's not too much trouble note that it is past the point where it is possible to drop the receipt. There are different kinds of client botches that can toss out the JE VS AGED too.

A: The circumstance you referenced is the reasons why you ought not to change solicitations that are represented. This can likewise happen when the J/E is changed since the AR move to GL makes unnoted J/E. Changing the said solicitations puts GLA and the sub-record out of synchronizing.

You have to set the diary hotspot for receivables with the goal that the update banner isn't empowered.

In AR, don't change solicitations that are there. Rather use DM and CM usefulness to alter solicitations or make new ones.

Q. Prophet review potential outcomes

I like to know whether there are functionalities in Oracle Applications that will permit me to review the entrance clients to have certain structures.

Are there explicit solicitations that will permit me to look into all the clients that can characterize sellers, or do I need to characterize questions on the database tables?

A: You can choose unmistakable user_id from fnd_user where user_id in (select created_by from po_vendor_sites_all).

On the other hand, you can play with the client and obligation tables to see who approaches the duties. You have to PO super client and PO client, and different obligations that approach the structure to enter sellers. On the off chance that a client doesn't approach a 'duty used' to enter sellers, he can't enter merchants utilizing his login.

Note that po_vendors are at a nonexclusive level (no_org_id) while po_vendor_sites is at org_id level.

created_by and Updated_by are who segments that permit you to see who made or refreshed the information.

Q. Resource number age

In our framework, resource numbers are programmed created individually. Be that as it may, now and then, it skirts the grouping. For instance, we have shut a period with a last resource number 326, and when we open the following time frame, it gives an advantage number of 329. It implies we missed resource numbers 327 and 328. Some of the time, it additionally happens even without shutting the period.

How would I fix this?

A: You should check your Fa_distribution_history table to check whether you are missing holes there and afterward follow it to where resources where made, either in FA or in PA.

Q. What is the Flex field? What are the various kinds of Flex fields?

Flex field is utilized to catch data of your Organizations.

Q. Distinction between KFF and DFF.

KFF

Extraordinary identifier

Put away in fragment Column

DFF

Is utilized to catch extra data

Put away in quality Column

Q. What number of KFF are in GL. AP , AR.

1. Module KFF

2. GL Accounting FF

3. AP No KFF

4. AR Sales charge Location FF

5. Region Flexfield.

Q. What is the image of DFF in the Forms?

Square Bracket [ ].

Q. What is the structure of KFF in the Accounting Flexfields.

1. Organization

2. Cost focus

3. Record

4. Item

5. Future use.

Q. What the number of fragments are in AFF.

max 30 portions and min two.

[takingcontrolme-blog]

Oprettelse af et websted med PHP

  - & gt; Der er forskellige former for PHP, og der er desuden enorme kontraster mellem dem som mellem PHP 4 og PHP 5, hvor et andet OOP-show syntes sammen med forbedret MySQL og SQLite-forstærker og andre mindre højdepunkter. - & gt; PHP-poster har et par udvidelser som .php, .phtml eller .php5, og de kan indeholde PHP-kode, men desuden HTML, JavaScript eller CSS. & gt; PHP kan gøre en masse hjælpsomme ting, for eksempel at producere dynamisk sideindhold, lave, åbne, gennemgå, komponere, slette og lukke optegnelser på en server, indsamle strukturoplysninger, få og sende behandler, herunder sletning, ændring af oplysninger i database, der bruger til at styre klienten, scrambling information og giver billeder, PDF-dokumenter, Flash-film, XHTML og XML-indholdsdokumenter. - & gt; Uanset muligheden for, at PHP er den mest fremtrædende programmeringsdialekt, der anvendes til oprettelse af websteder, har den nogle svagheder: kompleks opgaveforespørgsler involvering, open source kode, manglende fejlfinding apparater, bundle administration, rentabilitet, det viser altid tegn på forandring , uregelmæssighed og sprogstruktur. - & gt; Fordele ved PHP: - & gt; Open Source og gratis at bruge PHP er open source, som enhver kan bruge. PHP webdesignerne giver specialiseret hjælp og opdaterer altid center-funktionaliteterne i centrum. PHP er tilgængelig uden omkostninger under PHP General Public License, og størstedelen af dets tilknyttede nødvendige programmering ligner MySQL, Text Editors og Apache Server er ligeledes åbent tilgængelige, så det viser ekstremt finansielt kyndige til webstedsejerne. - & gt; Let at bruge og nem at kode Planlagt på en let forståelig måde giver PHP mere tilpasningsevne end C, C ++ og ASP og generelle årsager til at udvide bevægelsen til webstedet. Den har en klar og effektivt forsvarlig sproglig struktur. Koden er installeret i HTML-kildekoden, og det afhænger af C / C ++. På denne måde er det yderst almindeligt, og software ingeniører er usædvanligt glade med kodning med det. - & gt; Høj kompatibilitet og platform uafhængig PHP er dybt perfekt med kørsel af arbejdsrammer, webservere og mange andre forskellige stadier. PHP-indhold kan fortsætte med at køre tværgående over arbejdsområder, f.eks. Linux, Windows, Solaris, OpenBSD, Mac OSX osv., Og ydermere tilbyde hjælp til alle rigtige webservere, f.eks. Apache, IIS, iPlanet og understøtter endvidere hver eneste ægte database inklusive MySQL, dBase, IBM DB2, InterBase, FrontBase, ODBC, PostgreSQL, SQLite og så videre. - & gt; Intense og alsidige I øjeblikket bruges dage til at skrive PHP-programmer til en del af forskellige web-baserede grænseflader. Begyndelse fra private virksomhedswebsteder til enorme autoritative webapplikationer. Oplysende diskussioner, besøgsstadier, CRM-arrangementer, online-forretningshandsker, gruppesider, e-business og database-drevne Apps kan nemt oprettes ved hjælp af PHP. PHP-projekter kan udnyttes til at skitsere alle slags websteder og dygtige til at håndtere webapplikationer med stor bevægelse. Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia er et par tilfælde af gigantiske gik gennem lang række interpersonelle kommunikationsdestinationer lavet af PHP-system og med den begrundelse, at det er server-side scripting, kan det gøre alt, hvad andre CGI-projekter kan gøre. - & gt; Hurtigere udvikling og hurtigere behandling PHP er beregnet til at fungere beundringsværdigt med internettet, således at ting som at komme til GET og POST og arbejde med HTML og URL'er er fabricated ins i PHP dialekten. Dette gør det virkelig kompakt og direkte at opbygge et websted. Det bruger sit eget hukommelsesrum og langs disse linjer mindsker stablingstiden og arbejdsbyrden fra serveren. Håndteringshastigheden er hurtig, og webapplikationer som E-handel, CRM, CMS og Forums bliver desuden vokset hurtigere med det. - & gt; Usædvanligt sikkert PHP og dets faser er udstyret med forskellige lag af sikkerhed for at foregribe farer og hævne overfald. - & gt; Væsentlige støttende udviklere Fællesskaber PHP har en massiv gruppe software ingeniører, der ofte opdaterer PHP instruktionsøvelser, dokumentationer, onlinehjælp samlinger og ofte stillede spørgsmål. I tilfælde af at du søger efter et bestemt indhold, er odds en anden klient lige gjort noget komparativt. På samme måde er det muligt for andre online-klienter at udnytte det ved den mulige chance for at du har lavet en kapacitet eller tanken på en kode. - & gt; Mest betroede og dokumenteret siden to årtier PHP programmering er blevet brugt siden de seneste to årtier siden starten i 1995. Det er pålideligt af et stort antal forretningsområder indehavere og designere, og rundown udvikler trin for trin. Det har desuden demonstreret sin evne og fleksibilitet ved at oprette og holde op nok den mest kendte og fremtrædende steder. Som virksomhedsindehaver har du til hensigt at opdatere og håndtere dine webfunktionaliteter kraftigt; Det vigtigste alternativ til dig er PHP Web Development. Det er alt andet end svært at udnytte, fornuftigt estimeret og koordinerer adskillige faser og et omfang af online webapplikationer. - & gt; Ulemper ved PHP: - & gt; Open source kode For det meste kan alt, hvad der umiddelbart er stjålet, og det er det samme for PHP kildekoden, der kan stjålet af dine egne kunder eller andre webudviklere og placere det i forskellige aktiviteter uanset muligheden for at du ledsagede første arrangement eller tanke. - & gt; Manglende fejlfinding apparater I PHP kræver du fejlfindingsapparater for at opdage blunders og notices, men problemet er, at der kun er et par af dem tilgængelige i forbindelse med andre programmeringsdialekter som Python. - & gt; Bundle administration PHP har forfærdelig bundleadministration interessant med Python, der kan komponere, konstruere og tilbyde bundter til forskellige udviklere, så de kan sammensætte forskellige opgaver gennem påståede moduler. - & gt; Altid viser tegn på forandring Nye former for PHP dukker op altid med svar på fejl og med nye højdepunkter, men på samme tid vises de med nye fejl, der ikke har et svar, indtil det tidspunkt, hvor en anden gengivelse er afladet, og det kan virkelig være skuffende.

[crusherthedoctor]

Why is Eggman a better villain than Mephiles?

-Robotnik has had legitimate successes under his belt, such as playing the heroes for fools on multiple occasions via taking advantage of their established traits, creating his ideal Eggmanland, controlling a monster who can mess with time like it’s nothing, and possibly even taking over the world as of Forces, which has been his biggest ambition since Day 1.

-Mephiles’ “successes” were only able to transpire because ‘06′s plot demanded the rest of the cast to be morons, not because he showed off actual cunning.

-No matter the plan, Robotnik has an established motive, to rule the world and be recognised and respected as the greatest genius who ever lived, all to satisfy his own ego.

-Mephiles’ motivation for what he does is hardly explained beyond vague “cause he’s evil” reasoning, which is a tell-tale sign of a villain who has not had much thought put into them.

-Despite being a common man, Robotnik never backs down even in the face of the most intimidating adversary, and is consistently capable of proving to be a match for his superpowered opponents.

-Despite being one half of a god-like entity, Mephiles is mostly all bark and no bite, and he’s often forced to let other people and/or clones do all the heavy work.

-Robotnik is a more complete character, with established traits, tastes and emotions.

-The majority of Mephiles’ entire character can be summed up with “ha ha ha this is the evil thing to do”.

-Robotnik has had his share of blunders, but they’re mostly the typical kind of mistakes that are expected from a villain with a comical side.

-Mephiles’ mistakes are inexcusably huge and numerous for someone who is supposed to be the ultimate chessmaster, and it’s only because of luck-via-bad-writing that he didn’t suffer any consequences for these mistakes (until the very end, when punting the Chaos Emeralds away as Solaris is what allows Sonic’s friends to start the plan that eventually results in his own demise). If he tried his plan in the exact same way in a game that didn’t dumb down the rest of the cast, his plan would have been foiled before it even got off the ground.

-All in all, Robotnik succeeds at being a compelling character due to having genuine intelligence, having a lot of dimension to him, and being very fun to watch.

-All in all, Mephiles fails to be a compelling character due to having his intelligence only informed to us rather than shown to us, being as flat as cardboard, and being unable to live up to the image that the game and his fans have set up for him.

[luxportalonline-blog]

Oprettelse af et websted med PHP

  & gt; Der er forskellige former for PHP, og der er desuden enorme kontraster mellem dem som mellem PHP 4 og PHP 5, hvor et andet OOP-show syntes sammen med forbedret MySQL og SQLite-forstærker og andre mindre højdepunkter. - & gt; PHP-poster har et par udvidelser som .php, .phtml eller .php5, og de kan indeholde PHP-kode, men desuden HTML, JavaScript eller CSS. - & gt; PHP kan gøre en masse hjælpsomme ting, for eksempel at producere dynamisk sideindhold, lave, åbne, gennemgå, komponere, slette og lukke optegnelser på en server, indsamle strukturoplysninger, få og sende behandler, herunder sletning, ændring af oplysninger i database, der bruger til at styre klienten, scrambling information og giver billeder, PDF-dokumenter, Flash-film, XHTML og XML-indholdsdokumenter. - & gt; Uanset muligheden for, at PHP er den mest fremtrædende programmeringsdialekt, der anvendes til oprettelse af websteder, har den nogle svagheder: kompleks opgaveforespørgsler involvering, open source kode, manglende fejlfinding apparater, bundle administration, rentabilitet, det viser altid tegn på forandring , uregelmæssighed og sprogstruktur. - & gt; Fordele ved PHP: - & gt; Open Source og gratis at bruge PHP er open source, som enhver kan bruge. PHP webdesignerne giver specialiseret hjælp og opdaterer altid center-funktionaliteterne i centrum. PHP er tilgængelig uden omkostninger under PHP General Public License, og størstedelen af dets tilknyttede nødvendige programmering ligner MySQL, Text Editors og Apache Server er ligeledes åbent tilgængelige, så det viser ekstremt finansielt kyndige til webstedsejerne. - & gt; Let at bruge og nem at kode Planlagt på en let forståelig måde giver PHP mere tilpasningsevne end C, C ++ og ASP og generelle årsager til at udvide bevægelsen til webstedet. Den har en klar og effektivt forsvarlig sproglig struktur. Koden er installeret i HTML-kildekoden, og det afhænger af C / C ++. På denne måde er det yderst almindeligt, og software ingeniører er usædvanligt glade med kodning med det. - & gt; Høj kompatibilitet og platform uafhængig PHP er dybt perfekt med kørsel af arbejdsrammer, webservere og mange andre forskellige stadier. 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By Julius Solaris – Editor EventMB

42 strategies, ideas, tips and tactics to use social media to promote events. The intelligence you need to make better decisions in one handy guide.

Social media is awesome, right? Yet it can be overwhelming and resource intensive.

Knowing how to use social media at live events correctly is not an innate gift. It can be learned and this is what this guide is for. It is your gateway to have a comprehensive framework to promote events using social media.

This is what you are going to get:

Social media event marketing strategy, backed by research.

How To Convince Your Boss to spend event marketing dollars on social media

Your Essential Social Media Policy

6 Actions to Nail Your Social Media Event Marketing Strategy

A free pdf with a social media template

How to choose the Right Social Media to Successfully Promote Your Events

A Complete Guide to Promoting Your Event Hashtag

19+ Pre Event Hype Ideas For Social Media

A 4 Step Action Plan to Working with Social Media Influencers

Be a Master of FOMO With Pre-event Social Media Contests

After Your Event: 8 Ideas to Continue the Social Media High

4 Steps To Keep Your Cool and Navigate an Event Social Media Crisis

10 Trends redefining social media for events

Social Media Event Marketing Strategy – Backed by Research

Lots of chit chat around social media for events. What about using research to support your decisions?

It so happens we have carried the largest research to date on the topic.

We will share it with you in a second.

But why should you care about promoting your event using social media?

Simple answer.

Social signals are among the most important factors in online marketing. Especially for complex decision-making processes, such as ticket purchasing or registration.

Every action, update, post, presentation, picture or video that you upload to social media will have an impact on your online marketing efforts. When a prospective attendee is evaluating whether to purchase a ticket to your event, they will inevitably stumble on what you presented on social media.

This process has a terrific impact on how event websites rank for specific keywords on Google. If in fact, content is social media’s currency, using it wisely will have substantial search engine optimization implications. The more you concentrate on creating value via relevant and focused content, the better your event website will perform on Google. Likewise, signals from social media, including lots of impressions, sharing and click-throughs can have a direct impact on your search engine rankings.

This is why marketing is by far the most used application of social media according to our research:

Our research tells us that these are the channels event professionals prefer are as follows:

The next question should be how much money should you spend on social media. There is no universal answer, but our research tells us that these are the average brackets of expenditure:

Research also tells us that event planners have dedicated teams. That doesn’t mean you should ignore its dynamics. Many times brands have been in PR blunders because nobody was there to control what was going on:

How often should you use social media to promote your event? This is pretty much similar to asking how often should you post a blog post or send a newsletter. We have some tips for you in the trends section, so keep reading, but this is how the industry stacks up:

How To Convince Your Boss to Spend Event Marketing Dollars on Social Media

There are still a number of myths and shallow skepticism when it comes to social media. This is for several reasons:

Compared to some forms of marketing, social media is a relatively new way of doing marketing, sales, PR and customer service.

In the early days, self-proclaimed social media mavens took advantage of the buzz and brought disastrous campaigns to undiscerning clients.

It can be overwhelming. There is a lot going on on social media, you need to learn a new language, deal directly with criticism and negativity, keep track of messages and updates on several platforms.

While all of the above are valid reasons to think of your social media project as a complex process, it does not justify most of the criticism and skepticism out there. We will address the most recurring criticism, myths, and arguments so that you are ready to respond to the concerns of your boss, even if the boss is yourself.

Social Media is a Fad

This was a common opinion back in 2008/2009 when Facebook and Twitter were booming. Most bosses were very quick to dismiss social media as the fashion of the moment. Something that in a couple of years was going to be dissolved.

It is tough to have such an opinion today. If you look around, you will notice your peers, friends, colleagues, parents, children, relatives, equally involved in using some form of social media. Whether it is Facebook, a blog, Instagram, a LinkedIn profile or Snapchat, it seems that everybody is involved on some level with social media.

This does not translate into an immediate reason why you should engage with social media, but the numbers are unprecedented. What we are witnessing is not comparable to anything we’ve seen before. It is a way of life.

Attendees Will Say Negative Things About Us

This is at the same time the easiest and most difficult concern to tackle. It does not take a clinical psychologist to understand that if you are worried about negativity coming your way, you are either not confident in your event or are trying to hide wrongdoings.

This is not a myth. It is a reality. If your event sucks attendees will say it out loud on social media. At the same time, if your event is great attendees will equally say it on social (maybe in smaller numbers, as we don’t like to compliment as much as complain). But, here is a twist, attendees may be already saying something negative about your event, without you realizing or doing anything about it.

The last bit scares the hell out of most people. If you have any negativity heading your way, it is very desirable to be aware and address it on social networks.

Acknowledgment and action upon criticism via social networks are quickly becoming key performance indicators of customer-oriented businesses and events. The attitude towards negativity should be to investigate further and fix criticism, rather than deny it.

Our Customers are Not on Social Media

While the stats about social networks make it almost impossible for your prospective customers not to be on social, there is a case to determine whether it is right for your audience. While most are on social, they are not necessarily willing to engage on social to buy an event ticket or research their attendance at a particular conference.

The correct approach to this criticism is to respond with numbers. Analysis of competitors, attendee research and an event registration form that asks for social network handles will give you the data you need. If the numbers are strong enough there will be no case against your proposed program.

On the other hand, if you don’t have the numbers and the opportunity is weak, you are chasing something that may be irrelevant to your audience. Or at least not important enough (yet) to dedicate resources to it.

Social Media is for Large Brands, Not for Events

While large brands are obviously very engaged with social media, there is a growing literature of case studies supporting the use of social media by businesses small and large, in B2B environments and for events, regardless of their size. It is usual to have several event-specific social media channels and this is naturally what your attendees will be searching for.

Social Media is Cheap

One of the reasons why bosses actually decide to use social media is the assumption it is cheap. As much as this could seem like a positive feature, it will actually turn out to be a recipe for disaster.

Yes, setting up a Youtube account and posting videos costs nothing in comparison to the cost of advertising on TV or print expenditure 25 years ago. However, the fact is that if you are deciding to use social media, you should be making a commitment that is far greater than just setting up an account and randomly updating it.

The standard is high. In a content marketing world, you are faced with your competition by delivering cool campaigns, made of innovative ideas and powerful content. A lackluster approach will be punished by your audience.

Choosing to engage in a social media project means investing time and resources in it. It also means allocating budget to social media advertising in some instances. If your boss is not prepared to invest in it, you should not champion the project. You will end up with a lot of work to do, expected to deliver great results that won’t be fully understood by your management.

A correct social media program has a budget dedicated to it, tools to monitor and implement it and a team of champions within the organization to support it.

Your Essential Event Social Media Policy

Every event should have a social media policy. This should outline how to use social media to promote an event. Your team should be crystal clear about what is expected of them and the boundaries of their engagement.

A good social media program could easily turn into a depressing disaster if your staff are not clearly briefed about the rules of using social media in your company. There are also concerns with regards to respecting your employees’ rights when it comes to social media.

Some of the questions you should ask yourself are:

Who is involved? Who do I want to be using social media? All or part of my team? Who are those who can use it? Under what circumstances should they be using it?

Disclosure. Should your employees add to their profile that they work for your event? Should they make a note that their words do not represent the employer’s views? Is there a difference between personal and business use? Should your employees have separate accounts?

Key Contacts. Who should your employees contact if they want to engage with social media? Should they seek approval if they want to disclose they work for the event?

Rules. Should your employees respect certain rules if they say they work for you but use social media on a personal level?

Fair Competition. Are there ethical concerns your employees should take into consideration? Can they mention competitors? Suppliers? Can they disclose information about sponsors or general stakeholders? Is there a code of conduct they should adhere to?

Profile Setup. Do employees business profiles have to meet certain criteria? Do you offer assistance in setting them up? Do you have a standard logo they should use? Should they use corporate photos on their profiles?

Assistance. What general tips can you give about engaging correctly on social media? Expertise, attention to detail, knowing the language to use, do not take advantage of the community are just some examples.

As you may have noticed, there is a lot to go through. Depending on how you answer the above question, you could end up with a loose or strict policy.

As the Romans said, “in medio stat virtus” (virtue stands in the middle); meaning that a balance of the two practices is usually a good fit. You should not leave anything uncovered. You should protect your event reputation and brand but also preserve the right of your employees to express their views and in general not kill creativity and inspiration with too many rules.

It is in fact very common to see accounts of very strict companies that are just dull and uninteresting. There is an intrinsic component of social media that screams for personality, interesting content, creative updates, fun, education, and inspiration. Limiting your employees with too many rules may impact the delivery of any of the above.

On the other hand, being too laid back or too open may put you in a delicate position, exposing yourself to criticism and anger, two popular sentiments of social media.

Involving your employees as much as possible in crafting a policy is a great way to avoid friction and to make sure there is some level of agreement on what is and is not expected from them.

6 Actions to Nail Your Social Media Event Marketing Strategy

When we think about social media for events, the first thing that comes to mind is event promotion. While social media is highly valuable for marketing, it’s scope and potential is much greater than that.

Social media can be used to add value to all the main business functions of your event. It can be used to stimulate engagement at the event, improve networking, manage customer service issues, direct attendees to relevant content and gather attendees feedback in real time.

Here we will look at six actions you need to take in order to nail your social media event marketing strategy:

Define Objective Areas Where Social Can Help

Map Your Processes

Ask “What?”

Ask “Why?”

Ask “To Whom?”

Ask “How?”

We’ve also included a handy social media event plan template and checklist for you to download at the end of the section.

Let’s look at each of those actions in more detail:

Action 1: Define Objective Areas Where Social Can Help

When putting your social media strategy together, it’s important that the objectives are in alignment with and help to achieve the overall event objectives. To work out how a social media strategy can help achieve these goals consider where social media can have an impact on your event.

Here are some of the definite objective areas your event can focus on:

Customer service. Events with a well managed social media team can quickly and easily deal with problems like cold meeting rooms, lost property and session questions. They can also proactively provide valuable information such as delayed flights, reminders about when the lunch break ends and the location of an alternative washroom.

Marketing. The viral nature of social media makes it a highly effective tool for connecting customers at all stages of the buying cycle. The focus is to better position the brand of your event into current and prospective attendees minds.

Online Reputation Management. Traditional PR becomes reputation and brand management in a social media context. Social networks and social media are powerful tools to circulate a message, to change perception and influence the wider stakeholder community. The highly agile and responsive nature of social media means it is also ideal for dealing with crisis situations or averting problems before they start.

Research. Social networks and social media are invaluable for researching the content of your event, potential speakers, performers, attendee profiles and so on. This information helps you to develop an appealing program and also provides a business intelligence to inform your sales and marketing. Setting up a good listening center will also allow you to discover what people are saying about your event, what they like about it and what their needs are.

Sales. Social media has the ability to reach a large audience. However, that reach is only useful if you are providing valuable content and you respect the ethics and culture of different social channels. If you do that, then your audience will build in size and will be more open to direct sales campaigns and promotions.

Event Engagement. Social is the perfect tool to foster more engagement during events, by means of gamification, live polls and Q&As, live streaming and more.

Event Feedback. Feedback is no longer asked for, it is presented to the event planner on social networks. People are already talking about your event and your business online. You can tap into the conversation to understand both what went wrong and what was effective in your event.

Action 2: Map Your Processes

Once you are confident with each business area where social media can help, it is time to understand where in your event or event business social media can give its best contribution. This is a procedure we like to call process mapping.

Process mapping consists of laying out all of the core touchpoints, user journeys and contingencies any of the stakeholders involved with your event will be affected by. The procedure involves using a whiteboard, a large sheet of paper or mind mapping software to lay it out.

If you use a template to project manage your event, you could use Work Breakdown Structures or detailed rundown sheets, these are very valid starting points for your process mapping stage.

This is an example of what a process mapping sheet may look like:

By thinking through all of the processes that make up your event you can easily identify areas where social media can help you reach economies of scale, avoid repetitive tasks or flood inboxes with unnecessary emails.

There is no need to be too granular about the process. It is also best to avoid uncertain areas. If the benefit of engaging with social media is not immediate, it means there is little value. Reconciling the process with a benefit should be an ‘aha’ moment, characterized by an effective and clear tangible outcome for the stakeholder involved.

It is also a good idea to prioritize the areas that need more help or present a better opportunity.

Action 3: Ask “What?”

What will you include in the content plan that will help to achieve your wider business objectives and specifically take advantage of untapped opportunities identified in your process mapping?

Be specific about the content you expect your team to create or find. This gathering stage will, in fact, involve identifying those sources of content that can help you to deliver value to your audience.

Different forms of content could include:

Status Update

Blog Post

Infographic

Webinar

Video

Image gallery

Presentation

White Paper/Ebook

FAQs

Your Website Pages

Case Studies

Client Testimonials

Quotes

Check-ins

Contests

Surveys

Polls

Live streaming

Action 4: Ask “Why?”

Why are you choosing to write about a specific topic? Why are you picking that news? Why are you resharing an update?

The why of your selection should be very clear to you and your team. It is very common to see completely out of touch or irrelevant updates being broadcast these days. To help you master content creation and selection correctly here is a handy checklist:

Does the content help us in achieving our objective?

Does the content deliver value to our audience?

Is the content relevant to the context and channel we are using?

Is the content helping our event or is it helping our competitors?

Is the content educating, converting, influencing, serving or positively entertaining our audience?

Is the content shareable? Will our audience recommend it to their peers?

It is very difficult to find universal values to give an indication as to why some content is more valuable, however, this is a good starting point to define why you are choosing to go live with the content you selected.

If you are not sure about one of these items, it is probably better to choose another approach or piece of content.

Action 5: Ask “To Whom?”

Who is the content addressed to? Do you clearly have in mind who your audience is?

The research phase of your social media program should identify key personas. It is a wise practice in marketing but also in PR and customer service to be confident with your audience personas. Choose two or three personas you should be talking to whenever you select, write, curate and publish content.

They should have name, age, occupation, income. This wayfinding and publishing content will be much easier. Will a teenager love a complex white paper? Probably not. Will a 56-year-old head of marketing be amused by a cat video on Youtube or Facebook? Yes (everybody likes cat videos), but will it be relevant for the right reasons?

Action 6: Ask “How?”

Defining audience personas will help you to set a clear tone and manner for your communications over social networks and influence content selected.

You should create specific guidelines in terms of how your team should communicate with your audience. Your brand values need to be reflected in all the communication over social media.

Our downloadable template will help you to further develop your strategy and social media events ideas:

How to Choose the Right Social Media to Successfully Promote Your Events

Selecting the right social media to promote your events makes you successful.

But how?

Social media is a necessity for event promotion but when done incorrectly can be a huge time suck with little return on investment. That’s why you need to be strategic about event planning social media.

Potential guests and attendees will be using some form of social media. But where are they exactly? Selecting the right platform to reach them is one of the most important elements to the success of your social media for events.

We will show you how to choose the social network(s) that best suits your message, brand, an event to reach the widest, yet targeted, the audience you can for event marketing. This includes actionable tips on:

Defining your audience and learning where they can be found.

Making yourself more visible through social profile optimization.

Defining the type of follower relationship that is most effective on each platform.

Considering which content is most suited to each network.

1. Defining Your Audience

How will you know where to find them, if you don’t know who to approach and market to?

The first stage of picking a platform is understanding the primary focus of each one, who is on them, and where your audience frequents. The first and second of this list are easy. Here are the basic focuses of each network and some suggestions for their best event uses:

Facebook – Think of Twitter but long term. Facebook can lead to meaningful, extended relationships with attendees that are more personal because of the amount of data that is held on their profiles. Once you have the loyalty, you are more likely to show up in their newsfeed and if you can get the reach, Facebook is probably one of the most wide-reaching platforms. Plus, it has better ad marketing targeting for different demographics simultaneously.

LinkedIn – For B2B marketing and making personal connections, LinkedIn can be perfect for finding sponsors, collaborations and letting influencers or industry professionals know about your event. Also excellent for finding professionals you want to hire for events or putting requests out.

Instagram – Another image focused platform that heavily relies on hashtags to be noticed. It can be an excellent place to group images of your event for a live wall (much like Twitter) and with Instagram’s new “follow hashtags” feature it makes searching and connecting with your audience easier. Also perfect for those behind-the-scenes images.

Twitter – For short bursts, updates, giveaways and flash ticket sales Twitter is an excellent platform that can also help build relationships with potential attendees. It allows effective and easier interaction compared to Instagram and Pinterest so it is better suited for quirky attendee contact, live streaming or Q&A sessions.

Pinterest – Image and inspiration heavy, if you are an event prof looking to market by showcasing your event’s flair and style this is the choice for you. Many users on Pinterest don’t even look at the description (although that’s how you rank your pins well with SEO) but striking, eye-catching images can entice others to click through.

Now you know what they are for, you can look at finding where your audience is based. This part can be a little trickier but there are a couple of things you can do now to help:

Do This Now:

Check out your direct competition – Where they are, is where you should probably be. Particularly if you are aiming for the same demographic. Check out competitors social media and find which ones are most interacted with, and start with these first.

Evaluate current analytics from your platforms – Download, link or look at the analytics, where are you getting most interaction? Likes, follows and shares equate to reach and engagement, look at where you are at currently.

Ask – If you want to know, ask your attendees during feedback sessions or through questionnaires at your events and build a profile of where they are most likely to be.

2. Optimizing Your Profiles

Have you updated your social media profiles lately? It sounds simple enough, but often social media accounts’ bios and descriptions are outdated. For example, ever come across an annual event that still features information and links to its previous iteration two years before? We all have. In addition to that, most social media description fields are not being used in the most effective way to improve SEO, take advantage of new channel features, or promote other brand channels. Each social media network has its own opportunities for improvement.

Quick Tips to Profile Optimization

Focus on one platform at a time. Choose the most popular or relevant to your content and update all of the information, re-write descriptions and make sure it is completely filled out. When you are done, move onto the next.

Logout of each of your social media networks to see what your profile actually looks like to others. Google only grabs the information available on your public profile. Anything that is not publicly available will not be indexed by Google.

Consistency. Ensure that you are consistent across all of your platforms. Are you using the same logos, colors, branding, and style? If the answer is no, get to it. You want that instant brand recognition across all of your platforms.

3. Defining the Output

What do you want to achieve through your social media activity? Is it ticket sales, recurring event loyalty, relationships with industry professionals, targeted reach to update your audience? Deciding on what you need to achieve can drastically affect the platform that you use and how you use it. Point one touches the surface on what each platform can be used for but you’ll need to think carefully about your specific aims and motivations. You probably want to carve out a different aim and approach for each social media channel too, so give this some consideration.

3 Steps to Master Purpose

Determine your purpose – what is your main goal for each channel?

Highlight current relationships with your audience, can you build or expand on this? How can social media help you to meet your overall marketing goals?

How will this evolve in the future? Look at the long-term prospects of each platform and how you will be able to use this as part of an ongoing strategy rather than just an event-specific one.

4. Create a Content Plan

Content is king so find out which will be most effective to your audience. Videos, live-streams, hashtags, quotes, infographics, ebooks, and images are all types of content that can be effective to boost your event social media so consider what you have to offer and choose the platform that responds to this best. If it’s videos, create a YouTube account and share these links across your other social media, if you have stunning images and ideas then Pinterest or Instagram will help you the most.

Your content plan should be the result of your process mapping exercise, competitor benchmarking, research, listening and your framework for measurement and ROI.

What will you include in the content plan that will help to achieve your wider business objectives and specifically take advantage of untapped opportunities identified in your process mapping?

Types of content that can be very engaging include:

Memes

Memes can really resonate with social media users but there are dangers of jumping on the latest thing. It’s all about context. If you feel you have the full context of a meme and it tells your story, jump on it fast before fatigue sets in. Check KnowYourMeme.com before you use them.

Emoji

The biggest mistakes brands make when deciding to include emoji in their communications are overuse and lack of understanding. To use emojis natively and correctly, you have to make sure the person executing your communications understands the nuances between what they officially mean and how they are popularly used. The other factor to be aware of is fatigue and oversaturation of the use of some emoji. Above all, be authentic. It’s very difficult to maintain inauthentic forms of communication.

Humor

No one wants to share a boring product post or call to action with their friends but they will share something funny. If you can tell your story in a humorous way, you’ll earn more attention. Know the line for the voice of your brand or event and the audience you are going after, but don’t be afraid to experiment a bit.

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You should be very specific with the content you expect your team to create or find. This gathering stage will, in fact, involve identifying those sources of content that can help you to deliver value to your audience. In fact, having a content plan does not mean always creating new content.

Defining Your Content Quickly:

Find out which content commands the most engagement on each of your social media platforms. This is something you want to monitor consistently.

Which content can you easily create that is going to set you apart? Enhance this and focus on ways to improve it.

Experiment with A/B testing on your social media channels and post different multimedia that you haven’t explored to find out if it outperforms your original content.

Think about:

Existing internal content that you can repurpose in new formats.

Existing internal content that you can share on new channels.

External content which can inspire and be the basis for new content creation.

External content that can be curated and shared via social channels.

Strategy Requires (Regular) Posting

Ensure you post regularly and have an active account. It sends out the wrong messages and discourages people from following/liking/connecting with you if your channel is silent or shows irregular activity.

If you work to build a community for your annual event ensure that you continue to post all year round too, don’t commit the ultimate sin and only pay attention to it around your approaching event date to try to stimulate sales.

5. Growing Social Media Engagement

The viral nature of social media makes it a highly effective tool for connecting customers at all stages of the buying cycle. The focus is to better position the brand of your event into current and prospective attendees minds.

Traditional forms of marketing (print, TV, radio) focus on broadcasting, where information flows in just one direction. Social media marketing is distinct because it offers the opportunity to move beyond broadcasting to two-way engagement. When you can engage your audience you get to leverage their networks and your marketing reach can grow exponentially.

Your audience are on a spectrum from:

Not interested: whatever you post is just noise.

Mild interest: they notice your social media posts and have a thought that they might take a look later.

Passive viewing: your posts show up as interesting enough to click on and read.

Active interest: they are clicking on links, liking posts, sharing, retweeting

Fully engaged: posting their own content, uploading pictures, engaging in discussions

Create a social media strategy that speaks to these different audiences and helps them move up the ladder to full engagement. If you have fun using social media at events it will show through and create more authentic engagement.

Grow Relationships with Your Followers:

Set aside time every day to listen and interact with your followers.

Have genuine conversations, not just sales messaging.

Use social media to do things to surprise or showcase your followers.

Post challenges and ask your followers to share their own content and insights.

A Complete Guide to Promoting Your Event Hashtag

Hashtags are nothing new but having a consistent hashtag strategy for your event is important on so many levels, including:

Consistency. Having a hashtag and communicating it clearly makes sure that your attendees can consistently interact at different social touchpoints. Your hashtag is the universal currency that makes social exchange possible, the Rosetta Stone of interaction.

Empowerment. Having a clear and concise hashtag strategy enables your attendees to know exactly how to interact with you. Not knowing how to interact strongly limits the desire for expression during the event that we all experience as attendees.

Awareness. Communicating your hashtag to the audience changes perceptions. It shows you are recognizing the attendees’ need to express themselves socially at your event. They will perceive you as ‘up to standard’ and ready to cater for their social needs.

Analysis. Your hashtag is the most precious tool to collect all the conversation around your event. Any public update with your hashtag will be easy to curate, whether you are using a live social wall aggregating all the conversation at the event or social media monitoring software.

Engagement. Several tools that stimulate discussion and live interaction at events such as Audience Response Systems and Mobile Apps need hashtags as a means of public interaction. You can vote using hashtags, you can ask questions using hashtags.

Crisis Management. Your hashtag is the perfect vehicle to quickly spread the news about the potential crisis that may arise. Your hashtag is a communication channel with an audience waiting to read the latest updates or looking at media generated.

Distribution. The hashtag is also the official backchannel of your event. It is your virtual chatroom where you can make announcements, stimulate discussion, inform about your program and promote aspects of the event.

Feedback. A hashtag is a social vehicle to funnel and collect feedback. It will be very difficult to find complaints and compliments about your event if you don’t have a hashtag in place.

Community. Having a hashtag in place ensures that the life cycle of your event stretches substantially. Attendees will be able to discuss the event before it actually starts, they will feel a connection to the community much earlier. By the time they get to the event, they will experience a feeling of confidence with the event and other attendees. That creates the feeling of continuous communities which events need.

Networking. The event hashtag is the prime medium of networking. Attendees can relate to each other by checking the hashtag on their social network of choice. It will immediately answer the question ‘who is attending?’ which sometimes cannot be answered for privacy concerns. Attendees using the hashtag make a statement that they want to be overt about their attendance and connect with the event or fellow attendees.

How to Choose the Perfect Hashtag

Before deciding on your event hashtag you need to find one that is:

Original. Make sure no one else is using the same hashtag. Research all social networks you will select for current uses of your ideal hashtag.

Short. Some social networks limit the number of characters available. Picking a short hashtag guarantees saving precious real estates where needed.

Understandable. Your hashtag should be easy to understand. It needs to have cues to the name or content of your event. Acronyms are welcome but it needs to be somewhat evident.

Scalable. You need to be able to scale your hashtag for future versions of your event. Attaching the year as a suffix is a widely adopted strategy as in #event18 #event19, reinforcing the need of a short hashtag.

19+ Pre Event Hype Ideas For Social Media

Attendees talking about your event are attendees marketing your event for you. However, coming up with ideas to spark the right conversations isn’t always easy.

No worries, because we’ve pulled together some of the best ways to bring the buzz to your social media and get attendees and followers talking.

Attendees often talk about events on social media before they attend them so it pays to leverage this and boost anticipation.

For effective social media promotion, you need to share valuable content, create buzz and build momentum throughout. Here are some of the best ways of using social media at events:

1. Boost Excitement With Pictures from Last Year

Post last year’s pictures and/or turn these into image memes. If you’re using pictures of people and not just food and location, make sure they are all flattering. You don’t want someone who hates that photo of themselves to get angry with you. You can also ask to use images from attendees themselves, quoting or tagging them once they say yes to showcase real examples of people who enjoyed the event.

Be An Image Master:

Use an app to create these on your phone. You’ll save time since that’s where your images are anyway.

Overlay quotes and testimonials from your event over pictures taken there.

Take your funny shots and ask people to caption them.

2. Bring The Event to Life With Video

Put together a video of last year’s footage or a picture montage set to music. People love to see themselves or check out if they knew anyone who attended last year. Make it fun. Post it to Facebook (don’t forget to feature it on your page) and to YouTube (the #2 search engine in the world). Tag the videos accordingly.

Embrace the Power of Video:

Create a video that explains how to get the most from your event.

Publish a video series entitled “Insider’s Guide to Your Event.”

Give video help on a side topic like networking or navigating the host city.

3. Create Visual Testimonials to Build Trust

Go through last year’s comments, emails, and surveys. Pull out flattering quotes and marry them with an inspirational image. Using photos of the host city as the backdrop for the visual quote is a nice touch, so is using pictures that match what the attendee is referring to. Be creative and use striking visuals in order to get noticed.

Become a Picture Pro:

Ditch stock photos and take your own. Play around with angles, focus, and cropping to create cool backdrops for quotes.

Add a watermark or hashtag on each image quote.

Ask the person quoted if they would be willing to share it with their network. You can do this when you’re asking to use it.

4. Keep It Simple – Use One Hashtag for Your Event

Easy search. End of story. Don’t muddle your social media efforts with multiple hashtags that no one will remember. Choose one and stick with it. Share this hashtag with everyone. You can even place it on table cards and presentation slides at the event.

Make the Most of Hashtags:

If this is the first time using your hashtag, run a quick check to make sure no one else is using it.

If your post scheduler allows it, add your hashtag ahead of time as a template on your posts so that you don’t misspell it in the moment.

Keep your hashtag as short as possible. That leaves room for more messaging.

5. Give Your Ambassadors Special Treatment And They Will Return The Favour

Give your ambassadors and past attendees discount codes they can share and track the code provided so that you can see how far the referrals are reaching. Provide them with visual content to share and ask them to. Some associations and businesses offer a referral contest to increase word-of-mouth marketing. Not only does this appeal to the people receiving the discounts, but their referrers feel special that they are able to offer an exclusive opportunity to their tribe. At TechFest, the Event Organiser announced that the top tweeters at the event should come for free to the next year’s event as they were that valuable to him.

Grow Ambassador Loyalty:

Create a shared space where they can access all the information they’d need to share in one spot.

Put them on a drip marketing campaign or ask them to join a private Facebook Group where you can share things just with them. It will also make them feel special to be included.

Thank them regularly and have some swag waiting for them at check-in.

6. Use Giveaways To Incentivize Engagement

Run a giveaway that involves signage, sign-up pages or notification about your events. It’s an excellent way to not only boost your email list but highlight your event to a wide audience and make sharing posts a prerequisite. Be careful not to let your audience know that your giveaway is not in association with the platform you are promoting on (unless of course, they are sponsoring it for you) otherwise this could break terms and conditions.

Master your Swag-ger:

Use different types of giveaways from swag to discounts.

If you send a piece of swag, ask that they share a selfie (using your hashtag, of course) with it.

Announce the winner via a Livestream video.

Want to know more about contests as a pre-event hype tactic?

We’ll cover it in detail in the next section but keep reading for more awesome non-contest hype ideas.

7. Build Anticipation With Teasers and Countdowns

Tease new tidbits of exciting information about your event in advance to get people excited but make sure it’s details that are going to pique interest. From line-ups, influencers that may be attending as well as celebrity guests or entertainment that you expect to be a hit, it all generates that buzz and gets people talking.

Countdowns are also excellent and can coincide with giveaways to keep your audience coming back to your channels regularly closer to your event to keep it in the forefront of their mind.

Drip Content like a Boss:

Find a post scheduler you like.

Schedule your teasers and countdowns as autoposts.

Check back and answer or respond to comments.

8. Share on Different Platforms For Maximum Reach

Don’t just stick to the same platform, share your content across all of them. You may be focusing most of your efforts on one or two but take a few minutes to appease your fewer audience members. All it takes is one viral post to get decent reach and boosting on different networks can help be seen multiple times and shared.

You may notice that a potential attendee skimmed past it on one platform but then sees your post again and clicks on it. Cross-platform promotion reaffirms your message as well as broadening your reach. The messaging doesn’t have to be the same for each platform it can be shared in a slightly different way for each.

Be a Social Media Explorer:

Use a scheduler that lets you copy posts easily and change them slightly.

Explore the possibilities of IFTTT to populate social media platforms when you post to one profile.

Watch your analytics to see what people are responding to on each platform and then do more of it.

9. Entice Attendees With Exclusive Offers and Discounts

Early bird offers, pre-sales, registration and follower (or subscriber) only discounts makes following more valuable as they get something back. The incentive to stay clued into your channels is higher because they can jump on the exclusivity you provide. Plus, if you do this at random intervals they won’t know what to expect, making it more exciting.

Become a Gatekeeper to Drive Interest:

If you want to drive exclusivity, only announce on the channels you say you will. If others see you advertising it all over town, they won’t see a reason to follow you.

Do something truly exclusive for your social media following.

Use Snapchat or a story on Facebook or Instagram to offer something for 24-hours only. After that, it will disappear.

10. Give Behind-the-Scenes Access To Create a Personal Connection

Offering set-up, backstage or behind the scenes access is another exclusive offering that is cost-effective. Many attendees are interested in what it takes to create an event and allows more of a personal connection to your channels which audiences enjoy. Seeing the face and effort behind an event can also make it more tangible and therefore exciting as it draws closer.

Plus, you could offer sponsorship ideas or discounts with suppliers if you give them a shout-out for using their products and services during set-up.

Be a Behind-the-scenes Ninja:

Live stream your arrival at the host city or venue.

Sneak into the kitchen and interview the chef.

Have a little fun with the keynote or presenter and ask them to share a secret talent with the audience.

11. Make Attendees Feel Important With VIP Packages

Whether this is via giveaways or simply offering limited amounts of packages, you can create a hype surrounding these extra offerings. There are two main types of VIP offerings – access and audience. People will pay extra to do things like gain early access for tickets that sell out or have an audience with someone special, like meeting the keynote speaker in a private cocktail reception.

This is not a new concept. Think about how people pay for front row seats at concerts or pay extra to board airplanes first. Social media has helped drive this interest in being one of the select few, especially because that then means the attendee can broadcast the entire experience.

There’s that word-of-mouth marketing again!

Kick VIP Up a Notch:

Figure out what your audience members will pay extra to be able to do.

Offer additional opportunities and upsells. For instance, if you offer a package to meet the speaker in a cocktail reception, offer a higher package to have a picture taken and sit with them at their table.

Capture these specials on video and camera. You’ll want to use them in marketing next year.

12. Use Speaker Interviews and Supporting Content To Build Interest

Speakers are a major draw for any event. Giving your attendees a little early access to them through an interview, book offers, special webinar (for early-bird registrants), an online community, call-in Q&A session, or another form of special access for those who have registered can be a boost to early registrations and interest.

You can also spark interest through your speakers providing content like guest blog posts, social media posts (from their accounts using your hashtag, of course), an inside look into what they’ll be talking about at your event, or any other content.

This benefits you because it increases event interest and attendee numbers, helps the speaker connect early with the audience, and acts like a content teaser getting your audience excited about what they will soon be a part of.

Embrace your Inner Oprah:

Conduct the interview on Skype or Google.

Use the content in multiple ways by transcribing it, creating an audio, and a video out of it.

If your speaker is well-known, ask them to do a quick clip asking people to register for your event. Think of it as a celebrity endorsement and since it can be done at the same time as the interview, you’re not asking for additional time.

13. Increase Momentum – Ask Your Ambassadors and Early-Birds to Share

As we mentioned above, word-of-mouth marketing is crucial. In addition to encouraging advocates to share your posts and their own, ask if some of your most loyal attendees wouldn’t mind blogging about your event.

Encourage Blogging Around Your Event:

These posts needn’t be testimonials on your awesomeness, they can also be helpful resources on topics. Suggest potential topics and questions your customers are asking, in case your loyal attendees are happy to share content, such as:

What a Newbie Needs to Know About Attending ______

What to Pack to Attend ______

Must Do’s at _____

The Best Thing About ______

Tips for Exploring <the host city>

14. Gamify Your Pre-Marketing To Build Advocacy

If you have an online community, app or group, you can gamify the pre-marketing experience. Give attendees points for things like early registration, referrals, social media shares, and any other activity you want to drive. Post a public leaderboard on social media so others can see your super ambassadors. You can even take a tip from the airline loyalty programs and create memberships based on their points levels. When someone achieves a gold level for their efforts on the activities you deemed important, you could reward them with a credit in the bookstore, a refund or partial discount on their ticket price, or free ground transportation or upgraded room.

Gamification needn’t all be about competition. There’s plenty of room for fun too. Twitter leaderboards, robots that blow bubbles the more Tweets that are sent, unlocking rewards when keywords are mentioned using the hashtag and photo booths that can share pictures to social networks are all ideas we have used and love in our events.

Be a Game Wizard:

Find out if your event app has a gamification feature. Many do.

Think about what activities you want to drive and use those as the basis for your points.

Bolster competition throughout the day by giving reports on how others can join in on the fun.

Use emojis to gamify and gauge different reactions in a fun way to get feedback on a post.

15. Promote The Experience By Talking Up the Venue or the Host City

Get your crowd excited about where they’ll be. If this is a multi-day event, create plenty of content surrounding your host city. Sometimes the location can be enough of a sell on its own but only if you give it top billing. Use video, pictures, live stream from a site visit, and turn to the CVB for help too. They have plenty of resources for you.

If your event is only a few hours, don’t miss the opportunity to showcase the venue. You chose it for a reason. Share your favorite things about it. Their sales department can help you with images and maybe even video footage.

Embrace your Inner Cruise Director:

Ask a local Facebook group based in the host city the best things about the town and share it with your audience.

Find out a fun fact about the town or venue and share it or ask people to guess the answer to a trivia question about your event spot.

Listen for people talking about the host city and share pertinent information.

16. Create a Serial to Build a Loyal Following

It’s a format that’s been used for decades – the serial. You leak a little now and post a little later. People know what to expect because your posts are consistent. This keeps them coming back for more.

Post lists but break them up into daily posts. Instead of posting “7 things we love about <host city>” tease your audience to let them know that next week you’re posting something you love about the host city every day. At the end, you can compile them all into a visual post and share that as well.

Try Your Hand at Dealer Dealing Out Awesomeness:

Schedule these types of posts in advance.

Curate the content. You needn’t create your own. Chances are there are posts like this that you can borrow from (with attribution, of course).

Do something unusual like creating a playlist of music tied to the town and share a new song each day.

17. Advertise on Social Media To Reach A Bigger Targeted Audience

Don’t forget that targeted advertising on social media is one of the best, most cost-effective ways to reach your ideal audience. Plus since many sites show followers and friends what their network is doing, people will see when others like your event or say they plan on attending.

Spend a Little Money to Make Even More:

Always include a link to your event registration page. Ticket purchases are emotional buys. If your marketing is so superb someone feels motivated to give you their credit card number, you want to make it as seamless as possible. If not, they may decide the ticket purchase isn’t worth the hassle.

Use the targeting feature on your social media platform of choice to ensure you narrow down the field so you don’t overpay.

Create an ad with a need in mind. How does your event meet that need?

18. Listen on Social Media to Learn and Grow

Social media is a fantastic listening tool and provides a wealth of information for you. Take advantage of this opportunity to listen to what people are saying about your brand and events and find out what makes them tick. Tap into popular hashtags and chats, communities, etc to keep ahead of trends.

But, remember…

Listening is only as good as its application. Use your newly gained knowledge to create more opportunities to delight your attendees, engage them in conversation, and reach out to others to increase your audience. Listening without (then taking) action or as part of a conversation is a little creepy.

Grow Big Ears:

Use a listening platform to research what other events with similar demographics are doing. Note how their audience is responding on social.

If your event has a broad audience and appeal, look for people talking about being in or visiting the host city at the time of your event and invite them on social media.

Listen for problems and offer solutions without being salesy.

19. Respond Like Your Life Depended on It

Social media is active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and it is important that you can respond swiftly. Event attendees will often expect a response within the hour. This is particularly important if you encounter any negativity – ensure that you can react promptly and resolve the issue and/or take it offline. We’ll address more about this in the handling a social media crisis section below.

It may not seem like the response is a great way to build pre-event hype but it is. Imagine someone’s surprise when they tweet about registering late at night and you respond with how excited you are to meet them or for them to see what you have in store. It makes an impression.

Be on High Alert:

Set up notifications so you are aware of direct mentions and messages and are in the best position to respond quickly.

Ensure you have the relevant apps on your mobile device so you can check and respond to social media channels in any free moment, even when away from the office.

If you entrust someone else to handle social media for you, make sure they understand the chain of command for not only dealing with a crisis but compliments as well. Favorable comments deserve responses too.

Paid Social Media Advertising: Improve Your Targeting To Increase Ticket Sales

Social advertising is available via all of the main social networks. It can be an inexpensive and effective way to reach your ideal attendees and can even give your organic results a little boost. Many social media platforms now feature advanced targeting to make sure the right message gets to the right people. For instance, if you’re hosting an event where you want a group of people from a particular area to attend, you can set geographic limits so that only people in a particular area are notified.

Top Tips for Social Advertising Results:

Use geo-targeting to get higher reach and lower cost per interaction than non-geographic targeting.

Take time to understand the specifics of each different platform to get the most from it.

Set a budget limit and how it is spent.

Drive more ticket sales by employing retargeting in your marketing efforts. Depending on the platform, and the limitations you place on it, it can be inexpensive to do. Reappearing in front of someone who visited your site but didn’t register for the event or buy a ticket can increase sales.

Use automation to create a drip marketing campaign that will help you stay in touch with attendees or fans and keep them aware of upcoming events, drip feeding content in a specific order.

Your 4 Step Action Plan to Working with Social Media Influencers

There is no better marketing than a recommendation from someone people trust. According to Shopify, 84% of people will take action based on the opinion of others, so get influencers on board early (and often).

Influencers have spent time and energy building a huge following and developed rapport and trust with their audience that your event can tap into. These trendsetters can let your audience know about your event and when added to your event marketing strategy, they can help extend your reach and credibility to your existing demographic and new potential attendees.

An influencer merely mentioning an event on social media can spike interest, showing their audience that you are worth it (so you better live up to that expectation.) If you’re hosting an event, you shouldn’t discount an influencer’s growing power so here’s how you can get started, particularly with YouTubers, Instagram influencers, and Snapchatters.

Assess the Environment

First, take a look at what others are doing. This starts with the big events and competitors out there. Check what they’re sharing and what gets the most engagement. Next look for popular people, products, and services that serve your ideal attendee demographic.

Take Note:

Use technology to identify and search a database of influencers who are all interested in working with marketers and event planners.

The number of followers is less important than the amount of engagement. Instead of being wowed by their numbers look at the interaction rates and their rapport with their fans.

Don’t just look at the big names. It may be more realistic, achievable and targeted to work with a number of micro-influencers instead.

Do any of the influencers you have identified have links with other events? If they have an agreement with your competitors it probably rules them out. Find your own star.

Approach the Influencer

If you have your heart set on working with one of the biggest influencers, with millions of followers, you will need to be prepared to pay for that privilege. They’ve been there, done that. Chances are they’ll already have agreements they use, and often they will have an agent that will handle all of the communications and negotiations for them. They are hot property and demand high fees accordingly.

If you’re approaching a micro-influencer, new talent, or someone who hasn’t been involved in working with an event you’ll want to have a conversation about the details of their following and whether that demographic matches the one you’re trying to attract.

If they can’t tell you anything about their audience, move on. Most of these influencers are highly engaged with their community. They know what they like and what they don’t. They should also have an idea about the demographic they are most popular among. If they don’t, that’s a sign they’re either not paying attention or they’re not that engaged.

Get the Approach Right:

Make sure you have done your homework and researched the influencer. Mention some of their recent posts/videos or something they have done that really captured your imagination.

Be able to explain succinctly your event and why you think there could be synergy between the two.

Convey Your Goals

There is no point in approaching an influencer if you don’t know what you want him or her to do. Most likely you want help with attracting a particular demographic to your event but whatever your objective do make sure the influencer knows what you’re looking to achieve. Influencers understand their audience so avoid giving them specific directions on how to affect the outcome. Instead, tell them what your end goal is, how you plan to measure it and educate them on your event as in who attends, what they like, and how you present yourself. You want that to be consistent with what they are presenting to their community.

Top Tips for Getting the Most from Influencer Relationships: If it isn’t a good fit, it is best to walk away now rather than to have unrealistic expectations. For instance, if a YouTuber has millions of followers but they are mostly teenage girls from Asia, they are unlikely to come to a one-day event in the UK, just because their idol will be there.

Ask, and listen to, ideas that the influencer can suggest.

Trust the influencer and be open to taking risks, based on the advice of the influencer.

Offer Materials They Want

Once you’ve figured out how they will help you (i.e. giving their followers a special attendee discount), and negotiated the terms in doing so, you need to give them any materials they need to share with their network. Most often this is a landing page and discount code that is personalized to their efforts but it could also include video, logos, graphics, and other collateral.

Give your influencer some creative leeway as to how they share the materials and information with their tribe but, as mentioned earlier, you also want them to know how you’ll be tracking results (click-throughs on your landing page, sign-ups, etc.). Don’t forget hashtags, and conveying clearly what content output you expect and what you would like to hold rights to.

Suggestions for Maximum Success:

Never force an influencer to share messaging you have created. They need to be authentic and do it/say it/deliver it their way, otherwise, it will appear false and resonate less with their fans.

Agree how you will share progress updates, so they know the results coming through and can adjust their strategy accordingly.

Set timescales for key milestones and to ensure that their efforts fit in with your wider marketing strategy.

Be a Master of FOMO With Pre-event Social Media Contests

With the right timing and pre-planning contests can be high reward ideas for giving social media platforms the extra boost. However, social media contests can seem like a surefire success engine for greater sharing and engagement, but they can also be just as difficult to plan and execute as the event itself. Excellent social media contests require substantial planning and nimble execution. They have many moving parts and potential points of failure.

Follow these guidelines now to create FOMO with your social media contests:

1. Get Meaningful Interaction by Targeting The Right Audience

To make an effective social media contest, you must identify the type of participant you are engaging. This helps you to think about the best kind of contests and incentives and also helps you to think about which channels to use and the level of technical assistance you may need to provide. Ask the following questions:

How tech-savvy is your audience?

What types of social media channels are your intended audience already using?

What are the types of things your participant likes to do? How are they already sharing on social media?

Where is your ideal participant most likely to hear about your social media contest?

What would compel your ideal participant to engage with the contest and/or share it with their friends?

What behaviors or call-to-action do you want to encourage?

2. Know What Good Looks Like: Clarify Goals

If you want to incorporate social media contests into your strategy, you should identify clear objectives for the contest at the outset. Consider how these goals will impact the overall event objectives. Some example goals might be:

To encourage buzz or social media engagement around a brand, event or product.

To grow your email list.

To reward your most engaged fans.

To collect user-generated content.

To highlight features you want more people to notice or talk about, like innovative design, clever brand experiences, or brand partnerships.

3. Increase Competition Entries By Keeping It Simple and Accessible

Think about which type of contest will reach and engage the largest number of your intended audience. Establish a low barrier of entry and make it super simple to participate. The more steps it takes to qualify in a contest, the fewer participants you will have.

Tips for lowering your barrier to entry:

Base competitions on actions the audience are already performing

Map out the contestant journey and remove unnecessary steps

Consider rewarding people at all levels of technical proficiency

4. Drive Entries With Compelling Incentives

The general rule of thumb is that the bigger the prize, the more engagement you will get but whether or not that helps you achieve your contest goals is another matter. Here are some tips for choosing the right incentives for your audience:

If your brand produces products or services, use one of the most popular items as a star prize.

Provide rewards that support participants’ social media efforts or inspires ongoing engagement

Consider a prize that will compel them to keep talking about your brand

5. Know The Rules Before You Start

Each social media channel has different rules and different territories have different laws for hosting contests. Save yourself a headache and heartache by knowing them before creating your contest. Here are some important considerations to make about the terminology you use in your contest rules:

Disclosures on contest sponsors or judges

Eligibility requirements

Contest timelines and voting periods

Selection criteria

How personal information will be used

Disclaimers regarding the social media channel’s involvement with the contest

Regional/state/national/international laws

6. Timing Is Everything

When your competition happens and how long it lasts are important factors that affect overall engagement. When contests are too short, there is a greater likelihood that you won’t get the results you want, since you likely won’t have enough time to promote it and users won’t have enough time to participate. When contests are too long, participants can lose their sense of urgency or simply forget about the contest altogether.

Get your competition timings right with these tips:

Make announcements at the times your audience is most engaged

Give attendees enough time to complete competition tasks

Keep the contest short enough to keep up the urgency

7. Promote Beyond The Website To Maximize Your Audience

There are many ways to reach people beyond your event homepage and although we’re talking about social media, not all promotion has to be online. Here are some ideas for promoting beyond your website:

Depending on the scope of your contest and the audience you are trying to reach, investing in Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter ads is a great and affordable way to increase the reach of your promotion.

If your contest is running during an event, consider promoting it from the stage, in the collateral handed out to attendees, on signage, and in your event app.

8. Continue to Provide Value After The Contest

When a contest is done, it’s tempting to simply move on to the next thing, however, contests can continue to drive value with a little bit of effort. Follow these tips to continue to drive results after the competition has finished:

Reward winners with recognition and give them a chance to share the good news with their network of friends and family.

Provide a call to action for people go to read more about the winner, the prize, or your organization. Give people a place to go and another way to further engage with your brand.

Mine the data collected and evaluate the metrics you established in the development stages of your contest. Assessing the outcomes of your social media contest is essential to know if the value is being provided

8 Tips To Nail Live Event Social Media Today

Social media will reach peak activity levels during your live event and you need to plan ahead to maximize the buzz for those attending your event, and those following along via social media. Using social media at live events is exciting and this is your chance to shine!

You want to encourage your attendees to post frequently to social media during events, as well as hyping up the event content via the official event channels. Here are some ideas to get the most out of your live event social media action.

Be Prepared

To build the excitement around your event and increase attendance at your next one, a bit of forward planning is needed to make the most of it. You might be busy running the event but ensure sure some team members have social media as their number one priority so you can make the most of real-time interaction and documenting opportunities – don’t let the moment pass you by.

Plan Ahead for Better Results:

Allocate staff manages to social media throughout the event, including posting live content, responding to questions, retweeting/sharing/favoriting, customer service, and so forth.

Define roles and responsibilities and lay down some guidelines in terms of style/tone of voice, how to respond to any negative posts, and who will cover different key parts of the event.

Provide power, devices, WiFi/hard-wired internet and ensure they have access to any information which they may need to refer to or get asked.

Create some templates (e.g. draft post content, templates to create quotes from speakers), have some collateral available (e.g. pictures of speakers, copies of presentation slides) and have lists of the social handles of all performers/speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and so forth.

Get familiar with easy-to-use image creating software on your smartphone. That way you can transform speaker and audience quotes into image quotes as they happen.

Photo Booth and Image Snapping Opportunities

There are many app-based photo sharing tools which work on mobile devices and are portable. Some tools can create branded photos, a choice of background and effects and can automatically share to the event Facebook page or other social media networks and email a copy directly to the guest to create immediate content opportunities. Digital photo booths could connect to a large photo wall or straight onto your platforms showcasing snippets in real-time.

Encourage attendees to get involved by sharing their own photos and flood your hashtag with guests enjoying themselves. Think about your event and how to create photo-worthy moments.

Make Extra Impact:

Go Quirky – opt for unique photo booths that stand out at the venue and draw attention. Inflatable or back to back booths, professional photographers, funky backdrops or green screens can create lasting impressions.

Branding – consider organic ways to get your event name or hashtag onto the props, booth floor or walls, backdrop or décor that is in the shot. This way you are getting the maximum marketing benefit from each social share.

Stand-out – oversized props, wow-factor elements, special opportunities to get involved in the event and moments that people want to show off to their peers will go down well.

Walking Props – Lacking space? Use frames, giant cut-outs, lookalikes/walking characters and other props that are mobile which can be interacted with or picked up by attendees at their leisure. This also means you have a diverse social media feed as the photos will generally have different backgrounds.

Photo Feedback – Hang several pictures in your exit area or an area where people congregate, using emojis or characters and personas that fit your event theme. The pictures should be large enough to serve as a backdrop for a selfie and each of them should convey an emotion. For instance, you might have a picture of a smiling, indifferent and sad face. Ask guests to take a selfie with the one that best describes their experience of your event. Give them the hashtag and encourage them to share it on social media. You may not be able to run deep analytics on this but it’s a fun, engaging way to get visitors to participate and give feedback.

Real-time Feedback

By listening closely to feedback during your event you can make changes on the fly. For example, if the event facilitator sees that there are a lot of questions and interest about a specific point a speaker made during their presentation, it could be worthwhile allocating some extra time to go further in depth. This helps to connect with digital attendees and gives your audience and attendees what they are asking for.

Tie Together Online and Offline Attendees:

Personalization – Tag or mention attendees on social media where possible, for example tweeting out points or questions raised by attendees during the event. If you follow everyone who registers for your event and keeps a list of attendee names and their social profiles it is easy to share (at least so long as the facilitator prompts them to give their name before asking their question!).

Q&A – Live stream Q&A’s across your channels and use social media to integrate digital and physical attendees. Collect questions from your social media channels and ask them to the speaker to involve everyone.

Customer Service – If someone tweets that the room is too warm or cold, this can be passed to the event manager right away to rectify it, and to thank the attendee for flagging it.

Behind-the-Scenes

Give attendees a peek behind the curtain and show them the moments, hours or even days leading to your event. On the day you can still venture into the VIP or exclusive access areas, behind the scenes or give interesting perspectives on your social accounts.

Give a Glimpse of the Back Story:

Interviews – Interview influencers, professionals and attendees about how the event is going, what we can expect to hear from them, any breaking news and their opinions on current topics to mix up your feed.

Early Set-Up Videos – Seeing what it takes to create an event can be eye-opening for attendees who will probably appreciate your effort more after seeing the set-up process. Timelapse and progress reports can be powerful.

Exclusive Access – Have a VIP lounge or backstage area? Give tours on your social media channels to create some real FOMO!

Incentives to Share

Incentivize your followers to post more during the event. This generates an additional buzz which can transfer to the event itself while also blowing up your event social media.

Encourage Activity:

Hashtag Competition – Followers can show love for images and media included in the event hashtag by liking or commenting. At the end of the event, award a prize to the account with the most interaction.

Top Contributors – Create a top contributor list or leaderboard every day creating a competition among attendees to share the most.

Deadline Rewards – During the event, offer rewards such as discount codes, tickets, and prizes for interactions. For example, the first 10 attendees to share a post will receive an exclusive freebie, to claim attendees visit the registration booth with their event ticket and social account details.

Make Social Central to Your Event

Make sure that social media activity is always front of mind to encourage maximum attendee social sharing at all of your events.

Give Regular Reminders to Be Social:

Provide free WiFi and an easy to access log in process. Provide information around the venue and from the stage at key parts of the day.

Create placards in public spaces reminding guests of the hashtag and how they can connect with you socially.

Offer a networking or bloggers’ lounge that includes places to recharge and a quiet spot to write

Use software that aggregates and shares live posts on a screen for all to see.

Walk the Walk

You can’t expect guests to be social if you aren’t. Every staff member in attendance should do their best to share content and share attendees’ posts. When you share their content, attendees feel special.

Lead by Example:

Schedule content that isn’t time sensitive to publish automatically so that even if you are busy you can still be active.

Focus on capturing and sharing the real-time happenings whenever you can. Your vantage point as an event planner is often exciting and different to what the public get to see.

If you selectively share posts from attendees it helps them feel appreciated and encouraged to share more.

Share Quotes from Speakers

It’s a rare conference where attendees can be part of every session they want. Many overlaps and they end up needing to choose one so instead, allow attendees to get value from more than one session at a time.

Make Extra Impact:

Turn memorable moments from the event into graphics, images, gifs or memes to make your feed more interesting.

Encourage speakers to pre-schedule and live share content to their social media channels.

Links to presentation slides, free resources, and extra content can be shared via social media.

Make sure the event hashtag and speaker social media handles are on the slides.

After Your Event: 8 Ideas to Continue the Social Media High

Your event is finished, so you’re finished, right?

Wrong.

You will undoubtedly be relieved when you wrap up a successful event or conference but remember to keep the conversation going. If you suddenly stop using social media as soon as your event has finished, it will fizzle out and you’ll lose all the buzz you worked so hard to achieve.

Your event ending doesn’t mean the end of your relationship with attendees and it is crucial to stay active to foster loyalty and ongoing recognition. Utilizing social media by creating a consistently active and engaging channel is open to other opportunities such as your next ticket sales or marketing effort. If you stop or slow down it will be harder to gain the same momentum when you try to pick it back up again in the future.

Obviously, you won’t need to push as hard as before the event but it is important to find the balance, so here are some ways you can spice up your social content post-event for a varied and engaging feed.

Polls

Quick polls on social media are a valuable and fun way to capture interest, even if they are not scientific. Everyone loves to give their opinion (it is the internet after all!) so frame questions in an opinion-worthy and fun way. This can not only help you determine ideas and popularity of your audience for the future but gets them engaging and therefore more likely to see your content going forward.

Find Out the Truth:

Don’t be afraid to ask feedback or promote discussion whilst your event attendees are still on a high.

Facebook and Twitter offer polls and Instagram allows you to add yes or no polls in the stories section.

Stay Present and Active

You have a whole wealth of information from your event, so make the most of it. Share the highlights and keep the conversations going long after the event while attendees are still hungry for more.

Stay Front of Mind (or Feeds):

Ask open-ended questions or run a weekly Q&A so that you remain valuable on your channels.

Create content around the conference, sharing everything from interesting facts about consumption to daily pictures.

Keep the buzz going right into your announcements about next year’s event, which you will want to share quickly to get the date in people’s diaries.

Highlight Reel

If you have been live streaming or have video content from your event (if not, why not?) then you can create a short highlight reel of “best bits” to showcase. This gets attendees reminiscing and back to talking about the event.

Capitalize on Video:

If you have a lot of videos, create a YouTube playlist or segments that follow the same themes to make searching easier.

You could even request content from attendees on social media to submit their own videos and get a mention on your channels.

VIP, Influencer and Speaker Mentions

How can you encourage VIPs, speakers, and influencers that attended your event to keep sharing? Tag them in the photo or post to encourage them to mention or share some of your content from the day. It expands your reach to two audiences while also introducing you to others who may have missed you the first time.

Share Irresistible Content Influencers Will Want to Share:

Professional event pictures, snippets, quotes, highlights, and praise can all be useful to capture attention and encourage interaction.

Content such as this can also be appealing to their superfans to reshare.

#TBT

The ultimate post-event tag on social media (Throwback Thursday) which means you can post or showcase previous content from your event. If you can, tag and thank the included attendees, staff, suppliers etc. in your picture to recollect and bring you back to the forefront of their minds.

Use the Power of Nostalgia:

Choose the pictures that best communicate the key aspects and appeal of your event.

Instagram Stories now allows content older than 24 hours to be included.

Check out other hashtags you should be engaging with on social media, relevant to your audience.

Virtual Sessions

You can capitalize on those who have missed your conference or keynote by offering virtual access to sessions after the event is over. You may decide to make this freely available or charge a fee for access.

Enable On-demand Catch-up:

Check with your speakers and write it into their contract if you want to broadcast their presentation in any way, shape or form.

Whether you decide to charge or give recordings away as a benefit of membership, you should release sound bites to whet your audience’s appetite and get them interested in the sessions.

Attendee-only Rewards

Extend the event excitement by offering rewards just for those who were there, to make them feel special and to let them know their loyalty is valued and you want it to continue.

Reward Past Attendees:

If new products were launched at your event, offer exclusive discount codes to attendees only, available for a set period after the event.

Offer a loyalty ticket rate available for attendees to sign up for next year’s event right away at a lower cost. Although the full line up details hasn’t been released some attendees will be keen to snap up a ticket at a bargain rate and it means you have some revenue from early ticket sales.

Be Grateful

Spend some time going through your event hashtag, commenting and interacting with those who attended or got involved to make sure you didn’t miss anyone and to reshare the best content. Ultimately, you’ve had a great event and built excitement around attendance and activities. Your attendees are returning home happy and inspired. Jump on that euphoria through social media and use it to your advantage.

Say thank you, even to attendees who are late posting. Make sure your audience know that it is worth keeping sharing and you will notice and engage.

Recognize and search for blog posts about the event and share on your channels as a thank you to the blogger for spending the time to write about your event.

Keep browsing on a daily basis for a good few weeks after the event and ask permission to share, retweet or use their images on your blog, website or as testimonials.

4 Steps To Keep Your Cool and Navigate an Event Social Media Crisis

Welcome to every event professional’s worst nightmare.

You focus on all the right stuff. The music, lighting, content, and all the logistics that must be handled expertly in order to make an event come together. But what happens when your keynote speaker gets busted for drugs and it’s splashed all over the media the day before your event? Or someone tweets to your conference hashtag about an incident of Zika being reported two blocks from your event site? Whether you are dealing with a natural disaster, industry shakeup, pornographic tweetstorm, or human tragedy you need to be ready to respond quickly.

To be prepared for negativity and crisis, there are a few things you should be doing in advance of your event. Consider potential scenarios. Ask your team questions and identify the best solutions. Having a clear idea in advance of a challenge will lead to a better outcome.

Some questions that you should consider, include:

Who is responsible for making the communications decisions on site?

Who will implement the updates?

Which communication channels will you use?

What is your Plan B? What do you do if key players are away?

Things escalate very quickly on social media. When a crisis hits how can you best navigate the tone and direction of your social media communications for your audience? Here are four key steps that will get you through the digital hard times.

Validate the Problem

First, you will need to make sure that the situation at hand is truly a crisis and to rate the severity. If serious, it is time to gather your Crisis Response Team, an outside crisis expert, and your legal team to discuss next steps and a potential response.

Collect All The Facts

Be sure that everyone handling the emergency is present and fully understands what’s happening because you don’t want miscommunication on your channels.

Ask:

What happened?

Why?

Who was involved?

What happens next?

What will we say?

Once the problem is validated and the facts collected, it’s important to consider the options available to your team.

Empower Your Team

Attendees aren’t the only ones who have social media accounts. Once you have a plan in place, it does no good unless all members of your team understand it and know what’s expected of them. Your staff needs to be prepared before a crisis strikes so that just like you, they understand what to do and will be empowered to help your cause.

Communicate Quickly (and Accurately) With Your Audience

The most important thing you can do is to respond calmly and quickly with the facts. The first hours are crucial because people are waiting for a response from your organization. The longer you wait, the worse it is and the higher the likelihood of your audience making inaccurate guesses based on hearsay.

Tell your audience how you are addressing the problem as the crisis is happening. Without this, there will be rumor and speculation, which can make a small crisis turn into a major one.

Social media has changed the timeline of when followers expect a response. It has given them a lot of power to speak directly to the media and each other so a swift response should always be the objective.

While the dangers in managing a social media crisis are clear, every problem brings with it an opportunity and some organizations may find a chance to take a negative experience and spin it into something more inspirational.

10 Trends in Social Media for Events

Should trends affect your social media strategy? Absolutely. When it comes to social media, there is no time to discount tools or tactics as hype. Things are evolving so quickly that regardless of whether a trend catches on or not, all social networks will quickly adapt and roll out changes. Your learning curve should be constant.

Yet, there is so much going on!

This is why we will focus your attention on 10 trends that really matter. We are narrowing down the recent changes of major social networks to the most relevant to sell events using social media.

1. Maximizing Offline Opportunities

Times are mature enough to truly combine the power of online and offline. Experiential marketing when combined with a strong social media campaign offers maximum marketing reach. It isn’t enough just to run a powerful event or a great social media campaign, for maximum results the two need to work hand in hand. This doesn’t just relate to big budget events either, although of course, it helps!

Do This Now:

Make sure your event offers clear social media opportunities. Don’t expect attendees to share, interact and create content without any prompts. So let yourself go with offline props, photobooth areas, unexpected and serendipitous picture moments.

Can you identify moments of your event that will be popular with social media? Then make sure your social media team is ready with specific hashtags or creates pre-buzz online before the actual moment.

Give access to specific areas of your event to those more active on social. It will draw more people to use social media and engage with your hashtag.

2. Power to Powerful Brands

Don’t think that just because your event happens over one day, two days or a week, you are discounted from creating a proper brand on your social channels. Too often events have had an amateurish, sluggish and not up to a standard representation of their brand on social channels. Having a strong brand on social media reflects the image of the event and the level of attention to details that attendees will face at the actual event.

Master Your Brand on Social Media:

Make sure you have a basic level of identity on social media. Use the same color palettes, filters, logo, and pictures. While it is tempting to be taken by the moment, you are always representing a brand, not yourself. Spontaneity needs to happen within the image of your event.

Set up a clear tone of voice for your team handling social media. What is acceptable? How should they talk to attendees or prospective attendees?

Invest in social networks that can really add value to your brand and truly reflect your audience. Don’t chase buzzworthy social platforms that are not in line with your brand proposition.

3. True Influencers Powers

As in 2009 for ‘social media experts’, there is a bunch of unemployed individuals who don’t have a voice or a channel calling themselves influencers. Having influencers for your event is probably the strongest social media tactics you will have in 2018. Influencer social media marketing is key but you have to be careful. Having an influencer strategy is key for events in 2018. Mastering how to use them in performance (speaking) slots is one example of how events have the power to truly take advantage of the influencer wave.

How To Master Influence:

Look in depth at numbers, type of content, channel presence and depth of engagement of your selected influencer.

Analyze if they have participated in any other event and in what capacity. Do their updates gain traction? Are they able to drive ticket interest? Can you see proof?

Use platforms that allow influencer marketing tracking. Have tools in place to measure what the impact of your chosen influencers is to your event.

4. Slow Selling

The public is immune to advertising and will tune out or bypass sales information that doesn’t immediately interest them. This is even more true on social media. Selling switches people off, blasting out sales and marketing messages is not, therefore, an effective marketing strategy, we need to be more savvy for 2018. Gradual introductions and relationship building, without the hard sell, will yield higher overall conversions. There is no quick-win situation.

Be a Social Selling Ninja:

Set up a system of analytics to clearly identify how content on social media converts into sales. Sometimes it will take 20 touch points before you actually sell a ticket. Do you have the stamina? But, most of all, do you have the tools to analyze the path to conversion?

A good strategy is to draw people in and get them invested first before any sales call to actions are revealed.

Build value with content, create FOMO with content, ignite excitement, exclusivity, scarcity. This is what social media is awesome for. Use videos from previous events, get your performers involved with updates and short intro videos. Talk about what your programme will cover.

5. Stories Dominate

The Snapchat and Instagram battle continues, continuing to push a quick succession of big developments in features on both platforms which is exciting for users. This pace of innovation doesn’t look like it will subside in 2018, so event planners need to keep an eye in terms of the most recent updates that may be of interest in terms of event marketing. The clear winner here is stories. A new format both social networks master well. This is what you need to tell your team to look into for 2018 – provided you have an audience match of course!

Truly Grasp the Power of Stories:

Instagram users can search for a location or hashtag, and see a Story compiled from posts from other users that include that location sticker, hashtag sticker, or hashtag in the caption. Location Stories from nearby places will also appear featured in the Explore tab.

Stories now allow photos and videos more than 24-hours old to be added as a flashback, automatically adding a timestamp. This could be handy for throwbacks to past event highlights and marketing reminders.

Instagram Stories’ polling feature collects votes in real time and allows users to view the results. Instagram comment controls have just been improved for better moderation. Quirky tricks such as superzoom can be used in interesting ways at events.

Snapchat Custom Stories make it easier for groups of people to share their experience together and up to three custom Stories can be created at a time and shared with only relevant people. For your event, you could create a Custom Story and allow everyone in attendance to add their content to your timeline.

The controversial Snap Map can show Snapchat users locations and display it for their friends. What is worth event marketers taking note of though is the potential to browse posts from strangers who are sharing publicly around the globe. On the Snap Map snaps from that area can be viewed. The red on the heat map shows areas of high activity and Snapchat are keen to highlight events, celebrations, and breaking news. Stories show up at special locations and events and can be viewed by tapping the circular thumbnails.

6. Newsjacking

Newsjacking refers to the ability to interject breaking news to capture the interest of social media users to the topic. It is a very delicate matter. It has lead in the past to the biggest social media blunders to memory, especially if left in the hands of inexperienced social media users.

How to Become a Newsjacker:

Comment only if there is a line of connection between the news and the content of your event. Being gratuitous won’t help you, it will make you look silly.

Provide a perspective on the news, create some valuable content around it, make it valuable for readers and refrain to pitch yourself. Just make sure to have a clear call to action on the content platform you use to discuss the news, don’t use content to sell.

Use your speakers to comment on the news. Get a few quotes, quickly, use blogging to news jack and social networks to amplify.

7. Invest in Video

Video is taking over the internet. Mostly because major social networks want users to create a video. This means your videos and your live video, will inevitably be favored on most social networks offering more tangible organic opportunities.

A solid event has a solid video strategy at the event. This will become some of the most important marketing material you have for the next year. Think about how you can use video and live video at your event to sell tickets next year.

How to Make the Most of Video:

Invest in Facebook Live. Facebook has cut all the ties with your fans on the platform. There is very little chance to get organic engagement with your fans unless you pay for Facebook Ads. This is not true for video and Facebook Live. Definitively worth the investment.

Sync multiple live-streaming platforms at the same time. Invest in tools that allow you to stream on Periscope, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Maximize your live presence by having one stream for all of them.

Step up your testimonials game. It’s a crime to not capture testimonials from attendees and stakeholders while they are at the height of excitement around your event.

8. Social Media Takeovers

Can you give up the control of your brand to someone else? If there is an audience fit, the answer is you should! The immediate benefits are to have a relevant audience of followers, ready to engage with your brand and potentially attend your event. The same rules of influencer selection apply to social media takeovers.

How to Craft the Perfect Social Media Takeover:

Choose well. Consider whether there is an audience fit with the followers of the selected influencer. Also, consider their tone of voice and how it aligns to your brand.

Leverage speakers and partners. Speakers and performers are the immediate choices for takeovers but what about sponsors? As content marketing is evolving, brands are developing strong voices you want to listen to. Get them involved if they have a strong social presence and enjoy the benefit of a large audience.

Combine takeovers with giveaways. This is a great reason to move over social followers. Many venues are doing takeovers successfully with influential bloggers and giving away prizes (event tickets being the most obvious ones for you) to those that engage with the takeover.

9. Understand the Power of FOMO

Let’s be honest, social media has been just a great customer service tool until a few years ago. Very few were able to sell through it. Too much time needed, too many resources, poor ROI. Until Fear Of Missing Out materialized. Many years ago event planners dreaded social media for the risk of losing attendance at events and people choosing to follow via the social networks instead. The opposite is actually happening. The use of social media before, during, and after events is creating a sense of desperation in audiences watching online but unable to attend. We finally found a direct cause that can convert to ticket sales on social media

How to Create FOMO on Social:

Get attendees to share the fact they are attending on social media. Not just by having a share link on registration. Do more! Give them incentives, offer rewards for sharing, prepopulate tweets, Facebook updates. Creatively get them to share their excitement, this is the first element to create FOMO.

Most of the FOMO opportunities will be created during the event, you need to get attendees to sell tickets for next year. Do you have registration for next year open during this year event? Capitalize on the frustration not to attend. Get online lurkers to commit to buy for next year and resolve their frustration.

Video is your ally. Use video wisely to show what really happened when everybody was adding a story to Instagram. Combine public updates with your event video and show how your event creates that need to be there.

10. The Death of Real Time

Don’t get us wrong, real-time updates are still relevant especially in terms of Stories. Yet major social networks that traditionally have a marketing element, such as Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, are discouraging users from constantly updating their streams. They are doing so by highlighting only those updates that got most engagement to the top of the streams. Therefore instead of quantity, you should consider quality in terms of social media. Pulling out 100 tweets or blog posts are not going to serve much. And yes, if you are asking if the same concept applies to SEO, it is most definitely the case.

How to Master Algorithms:

Prefer one daily update that has value over a constant flow of updates in the lead up to your event.

Repurpose the content that is known to perform best on social networks. It is most likely that a wide base of your audience has missed it. Get them to see it.

Variate messaging and see what works. Run some A/B tests on different social networks. Occasionally use social advertising to give initial speed to your update.

In Conclusion

Social media is an essential part of modern events today and offers lots of benefits and opportunities to develop long-term-relationships and grow the communities and buzz surrounding your event. From customer service, updates and feedback, through to selling more tickets and ensuring greater FOMO, this guide is aimed at helping you nail your social media strategy.

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These ventures are altogether facilitated on GitHub, and by most records I've heard, Microsoft is doing open source in a compelling, network connected way. Distributing source code isn't the same as creating in the open; there are corporate open-source ventures where all improvement is done secretly, in-house, with few-to-no outside commitments acknowledged. The code is distributed intermittently (frequently without the full submit history, so giving no real way to perceive how the code was incrementally created) with an open-source permit joined. Generally, Microsoft hasn't utilized this model; rather, it utilizes the GitHub for definitive storehouses, with all improvement distributed to GitHub as it's finished. Microsoft invites outside commitments, utilizes GitHub's issue following to freely record bugs and highlight demands, and the activities draw in with their client and designer networks to organize new improvement. This is an organization doing open source the correct way.

Saying this doesn't imply that that Microsoft has dependably been this way, and the organization has communicated antagonistic vibe to open source—in 2001, at that point CEO Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a malignancy" as a result of the viral idea of its GPL permit—and is regularly blamed for endeavoring to "Grasp, Extend, and Extinguish" stages and measures that it doesn't control, after the term was utilized as a part of a 1995 organization reminder to portray its HTML procedure. I'm not mindful of any cases in which Microsoft has really connected with this procedure effectively—albeit both Microsoft and Netscape built up all way of exclusive expansions to HTML, it was eventually Netscape's inability to react to Internet Explorer 4, 5, and 6's speed, relative strength, and prevalent (however still poor) measures consistence that won the program war, not Microsoft's augmentations—but rather the term is still broadly utilized by pundits of the organization as though it offered some illustrative power. It doesn't.

The Microsoft of today is an organization that comprehends and grasps open-source improvement, both in the strict specialized feeling of distributing source code and in the more extensive feeling of network driven, community oriented advancement. The development has all the earmarks of being honest to goodness, and in all honesty, that is not something that we should discover through and through astonishing: there's one serious part of developers working at the organization, and a large number of them are clients or donors of open-source programming themselves. They get it; it wouldn't have been long until the organization did, as well.

GitHub in all likelihood required purchasing

As a privately owned business, we don't know precisely what GitHub's financial balance resembles, yet we can make some sensible deductions. The organization has had two rounds of investment subsidizing, one for $100 million, a second for $250 million. Spilled financials from 2016 illustrated an organization consuming money at a massive rate, with pay and advantages alone equaling income. Indeed, even a more positive examination of the numbers proposes that GitHub was on track to have consumed that $250 million by around the center of this current year.

GitHub is likewise said to have been searching for another CEO for about multi year. Taking so long to locate another CEO doesn't really imply that there was an issue: maybe a solid hopeful fell through ultimately making the hunt be restarted or something. GitHub's CEO look doesn't really imply that the organization's concern is completely budgetary—for instance, there might wait aftermath from the sexism and provocation claims from 2014—however the pursuit recommends that the organization is attempting to discover somebody willing, capable, and certain who can handle these issues, and cash issues need to rank among the worries of the CEO of an unbeneficial organization.

In the event that cash issues were in reality approaching, GitHub had just a couple of strong alternatives. Its supporters could, obviously, have chosen to cut their misfortunes and let the organization overlay. The impact of this on the open-source world would annihilate, and it's difficult to envision that any forthcoming purchaser would ever accomplish more damage than this would cause. In the event that the longing was to stay with the as a going concern, that implied collecting more cash. That presents three choices: another round of VC financing, an IPO, and a deal.

Both an IPO and another round of funding money would share a comparative issue: any putative financial specialists will take a gander at the books, and if the books are a perpetual ocean of red ink with not a single productivity to be seen, those speculators may be frightened away. Existing benefactors with questions about the business may have needed out, pushing things toward an IPO or deal instead of another subsidizing round. Initial public offerings require significant investment, and that may have been an extravagance GitHub didn't have.

GitHub profits from big business clients, with both an administration for private cloud-facilitated stores and an on-premises adaptation of the GitHub programming stack. To turn a benefit, the organization needs more undertaking clients, and it needs to get them at bring down cost.

Rather than a subsidizing round or an IPO, a deal to another organization changes the parameters to some degree: it can influence the way to gainfulness to that substantially shorter. A money imbuement doesn't offer any immediate access to these venture clients that GitHub needs. Pitching to, say, Microsoft, or Amazon, or Google, would open up access to those organizations' current venture into big business markets. GitHub would never again be exclusively in charge of building its business channels: it could exploit ones that its new proprietor as of now has. This more noteworthy reach can support income considerably quicker than a minor piece of money ever could.

Being purchased likewise opens the way to specific collaborations, which is to state, work misfortunes; while we wouldn't expect any quick changes, it wouldn't be hugely astonishing to see HR, deals, and showcasing get the hatchet sometime as they get subsumed into Microsoft. Similarly as with big business deals channels, this is something that only taking money can't do.

What's more, if not Microsoft, at that point who?

There's a bunch of sensible hopefuls with pockets sufficiently profound to purchase GitHub. Beside Microsoft, organizations, for example, Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Oracle all conceivable offer the correct mix of "innovation" and "cash" to deal with such a buy.

It's difficult to envision anybody cheering for an IBM or Oracle buy. Prophet's claim with Google over the utilization of Java in Android—alongside the evaluating of its database and the way it successfully slaughtered off open-source Solaris advancement—make it maybe a standout amongst the most generally detested, minimum confided in organizations in innovation, particularly with regards to open source. IBM's commitment with open source has all the earmarks of being immaterial, and the organization is for the most part seen to be in decrease. It'll blunder on for a long time yet, pitching new centralized servers to existing centralized computer clients, and its exploration into AI and quantum registering may multi day pay off. Be that as it may, at the present time, GitHub would be exceptionally strange.

Facebook doesn't offer the endeavor achieve that would help GitHub's productivity, and it utilizes Git contender Mercurial inside. While Facebook invests in engineer tooling (for instance, there are open-source C++ libraries created in Facebook, and Facebook has added to improvement of the Clang/LLVM compiler), it isn't in the matter of pitching devices and administrations to designers. There are likewise exceptional trust issues.

Apple offers more grounded venture reach, however it is as yet deficient. In any case, as an organization, Apple has demonstrated vanishingly little enthusiasm for building up the sort of stage impartial, dialect nonpartisan administration that GitHub offers, and it has truly put little in engineer tooling. Apple's open-source commitment is blended; a portion of its open-source endeavors, (for example, the WebKit rendering motor) are kept running in an open way, yet others are conveyed just as intermittent code dumps, with all advancement took care of in house.

Three suitors

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, interestingly, all have solid undertaking span, and they all pitch stages and administrations to the engineer network. This separates them as conceivable homes for GitHub. Every one of the three organizations have cover with GitHub. Amazon and Google both officially offer facilitated Git archives (AWS CodeCommit and Google Cloud Source Repositories, separately). Microsoft has Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) which, in addition to other things, offers facilitated Git vaults. Microsoft's cover is maybe the most extensive, in light of the fact that VST

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1998's most charming OS, after 15 years: Hands-on with Haiku alpha 4 Wistfulness runs high, however is the BeOS reboot more than a fascinating diversion?.

Haiku is not just a Japanese short sonnet with a characterized structure—it's additionally the name of an open-source entertainment of BeOS, an option working framework initially created in the mid-1990s. It was the brainchild of Jean-Louis Gassée, an ostentatious, eager administrator and head of Apple France. He climbed his way up the official step to end up plainly the head of "cutting edge item advancement and overall promoting" before being constrained out of the organization by then-CEO John Sculley in 1990.

Unflinching, Gassée chose he would make a fresh out of the plastic new PC stage without any preparation, including both custom equipment and another working framework. Gassée was following in the strides of Steve Jobs, who had endeavored a similar thing in with NeXT in 1985 when he was removed from Apple.

The BeBox was discharged in October 1995. It was an inquisitive mammoth, brandishing double 66MHz PowerPC 603e processors, a "GeekPort" for appending custom electronic gadgets, and vertical "Blinkenlights," LED strips that indicated CPU utilization. Just 1,800 BeBoxes were sold altogether before Be, Inc. ended all equipment fabricating and focused on offering the working framework without anyone else, at first for PowerPC Macintoshes.

In 1996, Apple was hunting down another working framework to supplant its fizzled "Copland" extend, and for some time BeOS was at the highest priority on the rundown (this rundown included both Windows NT and Solaris, neither of which would have been particularly appealing for Apple fans). While arranging a deal value, Gassée, radiating his run of the mill blustering certainty, told a journalist that "we have Apple by the balls and will press until it harms." Someone at Apple got twist of this and called a person, who called another person... who called up Steve Jobs at NeXT. The rest is history. "What a life," said Gassée, and exchanged the concentration of BeOS to x86-based PCs.

BeOS achieved its zenith of accomplishment in 2000 when the R5 variant was discharged as a free download. In any case, few individuals moved up to the $99 "Expert" variant, and a last-discard endeavor to spare the organization by packaging BeOS with the Sony eVilla Internet Appliance neglected to get the vital money. Be, Inc. sold every one of its advantages for Palm, Inc. in November 2001 for $11 million.

From that point forward, a German organization, yellowTAB, discharged "another" form of BeOS called Zeta in 2005 (which I explored). In any case, the organization never affirmed regardless of whether it approached the BeOS source code. The organization suspended Zeta in 2007, expressing that business neglected to satisfy desires.

With the legitimate status of the BeOS source code in limbo, it was up to an open-source gathering of programmers to attempt to as of late keep the BeOS dream alive. Their venture was initially named OpenBeOS, yet trademark issues constrained a name change. Haiku was picked as a callback to the old blunder messages in BeOS's inherent Web program, which were conveyed (fittingly) in haiku shape. Today, the Haiku assemble points to modify that working framework, as well as run application doubles initially intended for BeOS. With the group as of late discharging variant R1/Alpha 4.1, Ars chosen to take the OS for a test drive

Establishment

Haiku is accessible for download in a source code package: an .iso record that can be utilized to copy a live-booting and establishment DVD, and a double .picture document that can be composed specifically to a USB thumb drive. The last is the favored technique to look at Haiku. It can be run straightforwardly off the blaze drive without expecting to introduce it on the PC's hard drive.

Duplicating the .picture record to a thumb drive should be possible with the Unix order "dd" on Linux and OS X, or utilizing the free ImageWriter program on Windows frameworks. Once the picture has been replicated to the USB drive, the PC quickly gripes it can't read the drive. For Windows' situation, it even offers to configuration it. The reason it can't read the drive is that it is organized with BeOS's local BFS record framework. That is something just BeOS (and now, Haiku) knows how to peruse.

To fire up the working framework, one just embeds the thumb crash into a USB port and reboots. Most current PCs can be set to boot from the USB key by squeezing the "Del" key amid the boot procedure then choosing the thumb drive physically in the boot need menu.

The .picture record makes an around 600MB segment for Haiku, leaving whatever remains of the USB drive unpartitioned and discharge (mine had a 2GB limit). For future discharges, the Haiku group ought to truly consider expanding the segment measure, as the default dispersion tops off that 600MB almost totally with just a couple of megabytes free. The inherent segment director application in Haiku gives you a chance to parcel, configuration, and mount whatever remains of the space as another virtual drive, yet it can't progressively resize segments. This turned into an issue when testing.

Tried Hardware

I initially tried the Haiku thumb drive on a more established PC, a Core 2 Duo @ 1.8 GHz with 2GB RAM. Shockingly, for reasons unknown, the PC went into an interminable reboot circle when it began getting to the thumb drive.

Next, I had a go at booting from my trusty MacBook (a late 2008 model, the first to accompany the aluminum unibody, brandishing 4GB of RAM). Unfortunately, the USB key declined to boot at all on this equipment. I took a stab at booting from the Live DVD. I got the extent that the boot screen, however then the PC hung and declined to continue any further.

The last PC I attempted was an ASUS P5K-VM motherboard with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU running at 2.4GHz and 8GB of RAM. This is my Media Center PC, snared specifically to my TV. Luckily, Haiku booted on this equipment with no issue. Startup was quick and took under 15 seconds to get to a completely practical desktop. As a matter of course, the framework booted into a determination of 1024x768. Tragically, there was no choice to change to a widescreen determination. Looking the discussions, I found the framework was utilizing a default VESA driver and didn't know about my representation card. I had a go at introducing an (exceptionally) old BeOS NVIDIA bound together driver. It seemed to introduce effectively, yet the driver was not instated on a reboot. As indicated by the Haiku gatherings, the working framework will consequently bolster any NVIDIA design card up to a GeForce 7950, however cards more up to date than that (my illustrations card is one of them) default to the VESA driver. Haiku does each of the 3D rendering in programming mode and does not bolster 3D increasing speed, so the absence of a driver didn't change the general usefulness of the working framework that much.

My other equipment was upheld fine and dandy: my system card, sound framework, and different remote USB mice and consoles all worked consequently.

Getting around the OS

The Haiku working framework is quick and responsive, similarly as BeOS was some time ago. The portion depends on the open-source NewOS, which is a 32-bit preemptive multitasking, secluded piece composed by previous BeOS build Travis Geiselbrecht. The UI is an immediate clone of BeOS. Truth be told, it utilizes the OpenTracker document director and application launcher that Be, Inc. discharged as open source preceding the organization dissolving. With both the heart and the substance of the working framework running code with beginnings in BeOS, Haiku can genuinely be known as a successor to that working framework.

The Tracker document supervisor hasn't been refreshed much since the times of BeOS. It opens up another window for every organizer, and every window can be seen in either symbol or rundown groups. Dissimilar to Zeta, this capacity still exists to slide the yellow title tab forward and backward on the highest point of the window utilizing the Shift key, permitting a kind of specially appointed selected perusing of various indexes. Similarly as with the exemplary MacOS, Haiku recollects the size, position, and condition of every window even after a reboot.The record framework, as said prior, is BFS, which remains for the Be File System. It is a cutting edge, 64-bit able, journaling record framework with support for extensible metadata incorporated appropriate with the Tracker UI. This enables clients to, for instance, include information about music documents, for example, craftsman and collection and sort by these terms without utilizing an outsider application, for example, iTunes.

Applications

Applications and Preferences are gotten to by tapping the huge blue plume symbol at the highest point of the Tracker, which likewise fills in as a vertical assignment bar. Tapping on any application's tab raises a rundown of windows related with that application.

Haiku accompanies various applications and demos pre-introduced. There are the typical work area embellishments like adding machines, a symbol editorial manager, content managers, a sound recorder, a contact supervisor called People, an email program called Mail, different media players, and a PDF watcher called BePDF. There is likewise an application called "television" that should be a watcher for simple TV, a style of TV that doesn't generally exist any longer. It just shows a test pattern.Most of these applications are on an indistinguishable level from Notepad and Calculator found in Windows—little utilities that are useful to begin, yet not what you would need to use for everyday work. Haiku should bolster local x86-ordered BeOS applications specifically, so I went to BeBits.com, where most BeOS creators recorded their applications some time ago.

Lamentably, the vast majority of the download interfaces on BeBits indicate back the creators' close to home website pages, and the majority of those at no time in the future exist. I figured out how to discover one application that still existed, a spreadsheet program called Sum-It. I could download, introduce, and run it without any issues.

Be that as it may, regardless of the possibility that you can download them, not all BeOS applications work without issue. I found a port of AbiWord that wouldn't stack by any means. Also, the sparkling star of BeOS applications, an office.

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Fujitsu

Highlighting Fujitsu's new SPARC64 XII processor, Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers accomplish the world's most astounding per CPU center performance(1) in math handling, offering emotional changes for an extensive variety of database workloads, from mission-basic frameworks on premises to enormous information preparing in the cloud.

The new Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers join the dynamic SPARC innovation biological system, and together with Oracle's SPARC frameworks they use the remarkable security and adaptability components of the Oracle Solaris working framework, and additionally the productivity and flexibility of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC virtualization programming.

Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers are offered in two models: the two-processor Fujitsu SPARC M12-2 server, and the Fujitsu SPARC M12-2S server, which can be extended incrementally to a greatest of 32 processors.

The new servers can help clients improve interests in ICT framework and make new esteem in view of front line advanced innovation.

The trailblazer of the Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers, the Fujitsu M10 server line, has been embraced by numerous clients as the center of their ICT framework. Fujitsu M10 servers have added to streamlined ICT ventures by giving stable handling energy to mission-basic databases at the establishment of corporate business, and diminished scan time for data databases utilized as a part of corporate showcasing to 1/300th that of past innovation.

As of late, as the Internet of Things (IoT), enormous information and computerized reasoning (AI) have turned out to be more pervasive in organizations and society, there has been a regularly expanding volume of information to be handled, prompting requests for considerably more prominent execution, consolidated with a diminishment in operational and administration costs.

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Fujitsu SPARC M12-2S

Components of the Fujitsu SPARC M12

1. Supporting clients' computerized change by giving fast preparing

Execution per CPU center is a huge measure to consider while expanding information preparing proficiency, and Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers present to 2.5 times better center execution contrasted with the past Fujitsu M10 models. The Fujitsu-created SPARC64 XII processor, with the world's most astounding per center execution, boosts preparing capacity in mission-basic frameworks and databases without expanding server multifaceted nature, adding to the advancement of client IT ventures.

Programming on Chip(2), an element carried on from the Fujitsu M10, quickens database preparing by utilizing the way that utilization of in-memory databases for handling extensive volumes of information has been extremely successful in the cloud, extending the quantity of synchronous hunts to twice that of the Fujitsu M10 when handling with Oracle Database In-Memory. The Fujitsu SPARC M12, which can drastically quicken an extensive variety of information preparing, underpins the advanced changes of clients by enhancing the productivity of mission-basic frameworks, accelerating basic leadership utilizing huge information, and enhancing client benefits through multilateral data examinations.

2. Stable operations with industry-to begin with, new cooling innovation

Fujitsu front line IT aptitude has been utilized to create Vapor and Liquid Loop Cooling (VLLC) technology(3). This industry-first cooling innovation dependably cools the inside of the server through the stage change of fluid to vapor, generally multiplying cooling efficiency(4), and empowering protected and stable operations when fabricating a private cloud condition with various Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers introduced in a server farm.

3. Enhanced operations and administration costs suited for business development

Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers give CPU Core Activation usefulness, for arranging CPU assets one center at any given moment from at least only two centers for each server. CPU Core Activation permits servers to be designed to address business issues, with the dynamic adaptability to develop as required.

The top of the line Fujitsu SPARC M12-2S display offers extra adaptability through building piece design to associate extra Fujitsu SPARC M12-2S server undercarriage to shape adaptable scale-up and scale-out servers. By interfacing a greatest of 16 building obstructs, a solitary framework with more than 3,000 CPU strings can be made. Fujitsu SPARC M12-2S servers give a perfect establishment to private cloud usage by moderating starting venture dangers while taking into consideration slow development.

4. Supporting business coherence with stable framework operation

Expanding on the Fujitsu centralized computer legacy and the trusted RAS features(5) found in Fujitsu M10 servers, Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers give mistake discovery and recuperation instruments for blunder assurance over all processor circuits, supporting stable operation of mission-basic preparing.

Remark from Toshiyuki Awai, Managing Executive Officer, COO, IT Services Group, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation

ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) welcome the declaration of another item to the SPARC stage. Utilizing our expansive execution experience and SPARC server know-how, CTC have been putting forth wellbeing and certainty to clients by giving different administrations, for example, POC, framework reconciliations and operations or upkeep bolster administrations. I am sure that the blend of SPARC servers, furnished with the world's most astounding execution processor, the SPARC64 XII, and CTC's answers and administrations will add to improving clients' IT speculations.

Remark from Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect, Oracle Corporation

Prophet and Fujitsu have cooperated for over three decades to deliver SPARC frameworks fulfilling the requesting necessities of mission basic foundation. Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers highlighting the new SPARC64 XII processor for outrageous center execution is an energizing expansion to the SPARC family, permitting clients to address their most troublesome registering challenges with frameworks that offer both superior and undertaking unwavering quality.

Remark from Akira Kabemoto, SEVP, Fujitsu

The progressive innovation of the Fujitsu SPARC M12 empowers ongoing associations between individuals, organizations and an assortment of things, and speaks to a stage toward accomplishing Fujitsu's point of a Human Centric Intelligent Society. Notwithstanding the Fujitsu SPARC M12, which is an aftereffect of close joint effort amongst Fujitsu and Oracle, Fujitsu will keep on developing front line innovation that adds to the formation of new esteem and backings clients in growing their organizations.

(1) World's most noteworthy per CPU center execution

Examination in light of enlisted results per center in the SPECint_rate2006 and SPECfp_rate2006 benchmark tests.

SPECint_rate2006 execution results and estimation condition: Fujitsu SPARC M12-2S Performance result (top): 102 for every CPU center Measurement condition: SPARC64 XII (4.25GHz) x1 center, Oracle Solaris 11.3, Version 12.6 of Oracle Developer Studio

SPECfp_rate2006 execution results and estimation condition: Fujitsu SPARC M12-2S Performance result (crest): 102 for each CPU center Measurement condition: SPARC64 XII (4.25GHz) x1 center, Oracle Solaris 11.3, Version 12.6 of Oracle Developer Studio

These execution results were submitted to SPEC (The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) on April 3, 2017.

(2) Software on Chip

Usefulness of Fujitsu SPARC M12 and Fujitsu M10 in which equipment (a processor) is utilized to process a portion of the undertakings that are generally performed with programming, for example, decimal math handling, cryptographic preparing, and duplicating.

(3) Developed Vapor and Liquid Loop Cooling (VLLC)

A depressurization vaporization cooling technique that flows cooling liquid with a pump. Patent pending in Japan and the US.

(4) Roughly multiplying cooling proficiency

It can restrain temperature increments to a large portion of that of the cooling framework on the past items (Fujitsu M10-4, Fujitsu M10-4S), when cooling a CPU with a similar warmth yield.

(5) RAS highlights

Acronym for Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability. Capacities that bolster the steady operation of the framework.

About Fujitsu Ltd

Fujitsu is the main Japanese data and correspondence innovation (ICT) organization, offering a full scope of innovation items, arrangements, and administrations. Around 159,000 Fujitsu individuals bolster clients in more than 100 nations. We utilize our experience and the energy of ICT to shape the eventual fate of society with our clients. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702; ADR:FJTSY) revealed combined incomes of 4.7 trillion yen (US$41 billion) for the financial year finished March 31, 2016. For more data, please observe http://www.fujitsu.com.