Auditorium
The area of a Virtual Event where the conference takes place, pre recorded or live video streams are set up showing the various presentations that are to take place during the event.
Avatar
An Avatar, usually a picture, is a person's online representation of themself.
Business Card
An online profile of information that a user can post to exhibitors within the event if they are interested to find out more
E-Newsletters
An electronic newsletter, published on-line, often distributed through e-mail to a list of subscribers.
Exhibition Hall
This is the are of a Virtual Event where exhibitors create their virtual booths. Generally they show various pieces of information and allow downloads of documents, video and audio. Additionally they usually allow interested visitors to leave their business card for later contact by the company.
Lounge
The area of a Virtual Event where visitors/exhibitors can have group or private conversations. This is the main networking area of the virtual event and usually has a live chat function
Personalisation
A design attribute that creates various user groups, these user groups define which area(s) of a site a user can view
SEM
The practice of getting your website visible on the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Essentially, SEM is about delivering traffic to your website. Two of the most successful SEM strategies are search engine optimisation, and pay-per-click advertising campaigns.
SEO
Search engine optimization, the use of various techniques to improve a web site's ranking in the search engines and thus attract more visitors
Social Media Marketing
Social media marketing is a term that describes use of social networks, online communities, blogs, wikis or any other online collaborative media for marketing, sales, public relations and customer service.
Social Network
This is the area of the Virtual Event that allows users to create a list of contacts through the use of profiles.
Template
A template is a pre-defined design for a specific area of a virtual event which allows exhibitioners to easily set up and edit the various elements of their show.
Virtual Event
A trade show or exhibiton that is held in an online enviroment, the style of these may vary, but generally they allow exhibitons and social networking tools and capture data using webmetrics.
Virtual Presence Manager(VPM)
A program that runs on the website that allows a presence to be on the site when no staff are available.
VOIP
Voice of internet protocol converts the users voice into digitial information in order to make audio discussion possbile over the internet.
Webcast
A webcast is a media file distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand. Essentially, webcasting is “broadcasting” over the Internet.
Webmetrics
The capture of data about online traffic, the amount of data captured varies, but can range from the number of visitors, to how the visitors entered the site and what pages of the site they viewed