The social media wall for your virtual events
Engage and Connect With Your Audience on a Social Wall During Your Virtual Events
Use a real-time social media wall to make your hybrid and virtual events truly memorable.
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Social Media For Hybrid and Virtual Events
Learn how to engage your attendees using social media
Planning your side of a virtual event is important, but you shouldn’t forget about your audience either. Many online events severely lack engagement and interaction because the role the audience plays has not been translated well from offline to online.
This eBook will give you an overview of ways to incorporate social media before, during and after your events. When used right, these strategies can make your event more lively more interactive and, ultimately, more interesting for attendees, speakers and organisers alike.
Collect content from multiple social media platforms
A social wall for your virtual event will open up a whole new world of interaction and help you reach a new level of engagement. It allows your event attendees to step out of the shadows, to connect with each other and take part in the conversation. Aggregate content from hashtags, profiles and pages. Curate your content and display it on a social wall on your event website, embed it underneath the live-stream or show it before and after each session. You can also choose which social media channels you want to include on your social wall. Walls.io offers integrations with the most popular social platforms.
MAKE YOUR virtual EVENT MORE INTERACTIVE AND ENGAGING
Create a social wall to display powerful social content in real-time
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The benefits of using social walls for virtual events
Social media is one of the biggest engagement drivers for virtual events. Displaying social media posts shared by your attendees, speakers and sponsors on a social wall has multiple benefits.
Enhance your promotional reach
Use a social wall to promote your virtual event and create buzz. Social media helps you gain reach and connects you to your target audience. Speakers start preparing long before an event and share their progress on social media. Capture that free promotion on a social wall and use it to get people interested in your event.
Create a sense of community
On a social wall, attendees can talk to each other without disturbing the live-stream in any way. They get a chance to step out of the shadows and become active participants instead of passive consumers. They can post photos and comments, which speakers get to see, making them feel less like they’re talking into a vacuum.
Engage your audience
Interacting with a physically not present audience becomes much easier with a social wall. Take audience questions using hashtags which will then show up on the wall for everyone to see. Or use the wall to play ice-breaker games to help people start a conversation with the speakers and network with other attendees.
Boost revenue with Sponsored Posts
Monetise your social wall by giving your sponsors the option to buy ad space on your wall. Show their ads as Sponsored Posts to give them some extra exposure. Display the social wall next to your live-stream to make sure it gets seen by lots of viewers.
Enhance your virtual events setup
By combining a live-streaming tool with a social wall, you open up a way for attendees to interact with each other and with the speakers without having to install any software. A social wall is easily embedded into your virtual event set-up, doesn’t require any downloads and is completely user-friendly, no matter the tech level of your audience.
Increase ticket sales for the next event
A social wall and hashtags allow you (and your speakers and attendees) to keep the conversation going after the event. A social wall is a great way to promote any future events you’re organising because it gives an insight into how interesting the last event was. Seeing the conversation can create demand, making it easier for you to sell tickets early on.
Social media is a great addition to virtual events
Social media is a powerful channel for virtual events. 81% of virtual event organisers use social media to drive registrations. But the impact of social media is also utilised for post-event promotion. 54% of companies use social media to relive highlights after an event. The benefits of virtual events became particularly clear during the 2020 global pandemic. But, overall, 92% of respondents plan to incorporate virtual events into their event strategy even after COVID-19. (Source: Markletic, Bizzabo and Freeman XP & EMI)
How companies use social walls for virtual events
FIRST® and Star Wars: Force for Change use a social wall for engagement
FIRST® and Star Wars: Force for Change implemented a social media wall to interact with participants around the world during the COVID-19 lockdown when they were forced to hold tournaments online. They used the social wall to feature attendees’ work, serve as inspiration and share learnings.
A special place for the social wall within the virtual world of the first digital Tomorrowland festival
The annual electronic dance festival Tomorrowland held its first-ever virtual festival in 2020. It created an engaging and imaginative virtual 3D environment for attendees. They could navigate a virtual island freely to “visit” various music stages, as well as a social wall set up for the event.
Universities turned commencement ceremonies into interactive virtual experiences
Colleges and universities had to move their graduation ceremonies online during the lockdown in 2020. Many used social walls to add an interactive element to the commencement live-streams for students, their families and friends.
What people say about us
Walls.io really cares about customer needs and has been a great partner for us. When we brought up the idea of a social commerce button with the team, they were happy to implement it for us. Now we can not just focus our social wall on customer-generated content but also make sure it links back to our product pages.
Social walls are an excellent tool for non-profit organisations like ours. They’re a great way to draw attention at events and let the organisation shine. Walls.io has loads of features and covered everything we needed and more. Changes in the settings can even be made in real-time, which is helpful for live events. And, of course, our members loved the social wall.
Walls.io helps us to really bring our social media and event-specific hashtags to life at our live events. It is the perfect tool for curating and amplifying the best posts from our attendees, and a great way to encourage attendees to post more when they see their content appearing on the big screen. It might seem like a small thing, to post someone’s photo or tweet up for your whole event to see, but attendees consistently give us very positive feedback on the experience, coming up to our social team to ask for more information on this magical tool that saw their post leap out of their phone and into reality.
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Make your virtual event more interactive and engaging by displaying social media posts.
virtual event platform partners
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6Connex is a cloud-based virtual event solution. Their secure platform expands audience reach and drives in-depth content engagement for marketing, sales, recruitment, training, and HR communities. The 6Connex product portfolio includes virtual environments, learning management, and webinars. Walls.io partners with 6Connex to help increase virtual event engagement with a live social media feed.
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Slayte is a virtual conference solution lets you run beautiful virtual, hybrid or in-person conferences. You can set up live, pre-recorded or on-demand sessions, customize tickets and facilitate networking. Setting up your next virtual conference, including a live social media feed, using Slayte & Walls.io works smoothly. The integration is implemented using our iframe/Javascript embed code. All you need to do is copy/paste it in your Slayte account and it just works.
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vFairs is a global leader in virtual events, offering best-in-class virtual event solutions for audiences across industries and geographies. With a user-friendly platform that delivers an immersive online experience, a range of powerful features, and an acclaimed team of experts, vFairs provides a value-driven alternative to traditional in-person events.
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Pathable is a leading virtual event platform with a relationship-focused, live stream experience. It powers virtual, hybrid, and in-person events, specializing in corporate conferences, trade shows, educational events, networking and more. The integration with Walls.io allows you to engage your audience with a social wall.
