How Event Organizers Can Take Advantage of Twitter’s New Photo Tagging

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Originally posted on Eventbrite Blog by Mark.

There's exciting news from the Twitter camp this week, as they announced a Facebook-style photo-tagging feature is being rolled out.

The feature will allow you to tag up to 10 people in any photos that you share on Twitter, who will then be notified that they've been tagged. Users can alter their notification and tag settings, so they can untag themselves or not allow their profile to be tagged at all.  For more info on how it works, check out their dedicated help page here. As part of the same announcement you can now upload up to four photos at the same time to any one tweet, making it easy to create a nice montage of photos. Best of all, tagging photos doesn't affect your character count so there's still the same amount of space for your witty captions!

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Agencies Back in Planning Mode

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Originally posted on FCW by Adam Mazmanian

Agency CIOs are back at the drawing board, confidently planning long-term modernization and improvements with a two-year budget deal in place.

While the IT spending portion of President Barack Obama's 2015 budget request was the ostensible topic at the annual Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Agency breakfast on March 26, it was the deal in Congress for an end to the sequestration regime that introduced new predictability to feds and contractors.

"Last year I was joking about COBOL as a service," said Cheryl Cook, CIO of the Department of Agriculture. "We're doing better this year than last year. I don't think anyone is feeling smug."

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(Not) Strictly Ballroom: Unique Meeting Spaces in DC Metro Area

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To get people to your event of course you need a great speaker and great content, but a new and different environment can help as well. Everyone tires of the same old hotel ballrooms (not that there is anything wrong with them). While hotel facilities are great for many types of events, if you are not hosting a major exhibition or tradeshow-type event, your options for venues in the DC-area can really open up to some unique and (dare we say) fun spaces. Below is a quick list of locations we've discovered.

Washington, DC

Powerhouse - Located in Georgetown, the location was once home to the DC Paper Manufacturing Company. The open, soaring space is best suited to networking and cocktail functions. We could see it being a great venue for a product launch event.

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Using Google+ to Brand an Event

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Originally posted on Expo by Marie Griffin

Grace Hulse is a social media and digital marketing consultant in the Washington, D.C., area. Tomorrow, she will be on a panel, Social Media Metrics That Matter, at Expo's Social Media Summit at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. In this interview, she drills down specifically into a program she produced using Google+ while she was social media manager for the Water Environment Federation.

Expo: For what program did you use Google+?

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GSA Makes Smart Move in Shifting SmartPay Conference to Virtual Event

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Originally posted on GovLoop by Andrew Krzmarzick.

A couple months ago, an article on the Federal Times caught my attention as it declared, "GSA cancels 2014 Expo, SmartPay goes virtual." Curious, I reached out to the GSA SmartPay team to learn more about their move from in-person to online for this event. Below is a summary of my interview with them.

Q1: How did you make the decision to move the GSA SmartPay training forum from in-person to online?

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