The Global Hedge Fund Forum – Now a Permanent Community

August 30, 2010 Rob Arthurs

What started off as the inaugural virtual event hosted on the Leebug platform, has now morphed into a permanent community of over 400 participants.

The Global Hedge Fund Forum is place for hedge fund professionals to network and connect.  Hedge fund investors that meet the legal criteria for accessing the sensitive hedge fund information can join the community for free.  Hedge fund managers wishing to promote their funds to a qualified audience in a secure environment can do so by purchasing access to the community. Sponsorships for online branding within the community are available as well.  Both the managers and the sponsors will be showcased in virtual booths – marketing materials can be uploaded, video shown and profiles attached for an interactive presence.

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Website Refresh

August 27, 2010 Rob Arthurs

We finally got around to giving Leebug.com a much needed refresh – an overhaul actually. All of our efforts had been going into developing the features and the functionality of the event communities, and we let slip the web pages that marketed the platform and gave informational details on all the features and capabilities. I am pleased to now have the website balanced out.

Our new splash page emphasizes the human connection of event networking.  The Leebug platform is here to enhance event networking – to make it easier for delegates to meet the right people in a more efficient manor.  And these people aren’t avatars, they are business people like you and I.  We are also displaying some our more recent clients.

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v-Booth Upgrades: Widgets and Tracking

August 19, 2010 Rob Arthurs

We have made some significant updates to our virtual booth offering. Tracking visitation hits has been a requested much requested feature and we are pleased to now make it available on all v-Booths.  A log of anyone visiting a v-Booth will be kept for the booth Representatives.  This log will have all the sorting and filtering features of the main Participant page.  And, just like the main Participant page, messages can be sent and connections made from within the Tracking page.  For those with v-Booths, the link to the Tracking page can be found on your Home page.

By far the most significant upgrade to the v-Booths are the new widgets. By copy and pasting a tiny amount of html code you can bring your Leebug v-Booth onto your website or blog.  The widget pulls your firm logo, the booth Representatives and info on the event where the v-Booth is posted.  The widget will even reflect your branding if you have custom colored your v-Booth. The widget is the standard banner size 300 x 250. See example below.

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Facebook Integration

July 30, 2010 Rob Arthurs

We have begun tying Leebug into Facebook.  After all they are the largest social network in the world and the purpose of Leebug is to be a central location for event networking – and this means tapping into existing social media resources. We started with the ability to import your profile from LinkedIn.  Then we added The Hub where users can view a dashboard of social streams from Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.

Our new Facebook integration includes posting status updates to your wall from Leebug web or mobile. The ability to Share the event community with your friends and Like a virtual booth.

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Powering the Social Media World Forum Asia

July 22, 2010 Rob Arthurs

On September 22 – 23 in Singapore, Six Degrees Events is hosting the Social Media World Forum Asia – and Leebug is excited to be providing the official social networking community for the event.

The aim of the event is to bring together the Asian Social Media community to debate the hot topics for 2010.  A fully packed agenda looking into how brands can use social media as a marketing tool, the latest tips and tricks, how brands are moderating and measuring their conversations and results, and how the major social networks are positioning themselves within the Asian market. The event will also look at how marketers can use apps and mobile social media to engage on the phone, we also have a day break out covering social TV, and the impact of social media on the TV industry, and the emergence of the TV app store.

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Introducing Virtual Events on Leebug

June 30, 2010 Rob Arthurs

We have launched the latest component to our platform, Leebug Virtual Events. Have a custom, event community for your virtual events – make your webinars social.  We introduced this new component with the successful launch of the Global Hedge Fund Forum.

The powerful networking foundation that is the Leebug platform is being used by more and more conference companies to enhance their events. Features like auto-enrolling registrants, advanced attendee filtering, LinkedIn profile import, Meet Ups, and The Hub social media dashboard, have all been assisting delegates get more from their conference experience.

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Instructions on Using Leebug Mobile

June 4, 2010 Rob Arthurs

Leebug has a mobile web app – and it’s fantastic! It’s like having the event community in your pocket.  It’s a web app so it will work on any smart phone with a browser (iPhone, BlackBerry, Android etc).  The web app is a stripped down version of Leebug website and it’s formatted for the smaller screen on a phone.

On the app you can view profiles, make status updates, view event participants and send messages.

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New and Improved Forum Area

June 3, 2010 Rob Arthurs

We have overhauled how commenting and discussions take place within the event communities. We have taken the fragmented comments that are posted all over the place – on the Overview page, on the virtual booths, on the Meet Ups and in the Concierge and aggregated them in one place under the Forum tab.

For example, if the event has 60 v-Booths and there is comment discussion happening in one of them, this conversation will now be pulled into the Forum page giving it more exposure. Same with Meet Ups, if someone poses a question about the Meet Up, it will now also be displayed on the Forum page.

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Powerful Event Networking Tools Lead to More Partnerships for Leebug

February 17, 2010 Rob Arthurs

Argus Media and Other Event Producers Partner with Leebug to Offer Delegates an Online Networking Solution

Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) February 17, 2010 — Leebug, a social networking website that provides free, custom event communities for conferences and professional events, has attracted a growing number of event producer partners to its platform.

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The Hub – Your Event Social Stream Dashboard

January 28, 2010 Rob Arthurs

You have got to see this! We have just the launched The Hub 2.0 – a dashboard that pulls social streams from Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.  Now, in one place, under one tab, in each event community, attendees can join the Twitter conversation and view photos taken at the event from Flickr and videos uploaded to YouTube.

How It Works

The host of the event community, usually the event producer, selects the keywords and tags to create the feeds from each of the social sites. Leebug will then fetch the tweets, photos and videos and display them on the page. YouTube videos will play directly in The Hub – you will not be redirected out of Leebug – same with with Flickr, the thumbnails will enlarge within a Leebug popup.  Delegates can participate in the Twitter stream by enabling their Twitter account and sending tweets directly from The Hub.

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