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Networking

• Before event
• Lunch
• Raffle time
• During sessions
• After-party
  

• Make sure that name tags have names and twitter handles
• Provide a linked-in group or facebook group for people to sign up before hand to introduce themselves
• Have somewhere for people to print out their contact info (for business cards)
• Educate volunteers/speakers about networking: how to help others and participate in networking
• Create a Twitter account and introduce people who reply or follow or each other
• Promote the event Twitter hashtag (#sqlsat)
• Encourage people before the event to bring business cards/network (maybe using emails)
• Encourage people to use the Networking page on the event site
   
  Day Of
• Twitter/Speaker Bingo: gets people talking to each other
• Birds of a feather/Ask the Expert tables
• During opening ceremony, ask everyone to introduce themselves to person on right and left
• Have greeters that faciliitate introductions
• Contests: whoever gets the most business cards, whoever gets the most signatures, etc
• Have a networking session (could just be a meet & greet, not necessarily facilitated)
• Cha-cha slide (Ask Andy Warren :) )
• Provide a lounge/sitting area and direct attendees here
• Push this to happen at lunch
  

• If after-party can be at same location as event, more attendees will attend
• Have somewhere with a semi-enclosed, semi-quiet atmosphere (some place where you can carry on a conversation)
• Provide nametags
  

• Networking is important for attendees and speakers