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How ilink.me Helped Me Plan An Event
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on Friday, December 4, 2009 
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in On November 21st, I celebrated my 21st birthday (if you forgot to send Congratulations, don’t worry, I still love you). Most of my friends are scattered througout different states, schools, or they just work odd hours – thus, it’s hard for me to stay in contact with everyone easily through traditional methods. However, social media tools such as Facebook and ilink.me (an interlinkONE product) help make the communication possible.
The first step was creating an event in Facebook:
Initially, I had three Google Maps links – however, they were all very long URLs. This caused them to break incorrectly online, and they were too big to send out as a text message.
I utilized ilink.me to generate shortened URLs that were also customized. I gave each URL an alias – this helped people to know which map the link would bring up. (for example, directions to the restaurant, or to the parking lot, or the (ahem) establishment.
In ilink.me, I turned on email notifications on so that I was aware when people clicked the links from Facebook.
I later checked on the reports in ilink.me to see which links were being clicked – as well as when they were clicking them.
In the end, social media tools enabled me to plan and organize an event that went off quite smoothly. Yes, I had a lot of fun.
If you are planning an event that utilizes social media sites, please feel free to give ilink.me a try… It’s free and easy to use! http://ilink.me
How ilink.me Helped me plan Event
On November 21st, I celebrated my 21st birthday (if you forgot to send Congratulations, don’t worry, I still love you). Most of my friends are scattered througout different states, schools, or they just work odd hours – thus, it’s hard for me to stay in contact with everyone easily through traditional methods. However, social media tools such as Facebook and ilink.me (an interlinkONE product) help make the communication possible.
The first step was creating an event in Facebook:
Initially, I had three Google Maps links – however, they were all very long URLs. This caused them to break incorrectly online, and they were too big to send out as a text message.
I utilized ilink.me to generate shortened URLs that were also customized. I gave each URL an alias – this helped people to know which map the link would bring up. (for example, directions to the restaurant, or to the parking lot, or the (ahem) establishment.
In ilink.me, I turned on email notifications on so that I was aware when people clicked the links from Facebook.
I later checked on the reports in ilink.me to see which links were being clicked – as well as when they were clicking them.
In the end, social media tools enabled me to plan and organize an event that went off quite smoothly. Yes, I had a lot of fun.
If you are planning an event that utilizes social media sites, please feel free to give ilink.me a try… It’s free and easy to use! http://ilink.me
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