Be In The Room is a directory for digital events.

Be In The Room curates the leading online services that are changing they way we experience events - Twitter, Foursquare and live streamed video. 

We provide a platform for those running or attending events to pull all event related content to one place.  

By using Be In The Room you can enhance the virtual experience for those that are at an event and those who can't be there.   

We will encourage event organizers to add their events to Be In The Room, but if you want to see an event here and it isn’t, please do go ahead and list it.  

Be In The Room will be more useful for everyone if the community jumps on and list events when they see them happening, and share them with their network.  

What can I do with Be In The Room?

Track the conversation

All events should have their own unique hashtag. A hashtag is a way to identify and follow a topic of conversation on social networks like Twitter and Flickr. By creating a hashtag for your event you enable people to track the conversation and connect with each other. Twitter hashtags are a great way for event organizers' to monitor community sentiment before, during and after their event.

Our Be In The Room event page will have an embedded Twitter stream that pulls only the tweets that are tagged with the #hashtags allocated to your event. You can add up to three event hashtags on Be In The Room.

Learn more about Twitter hashtags here

Livestream presentations

If you or any attendees are live streaming the presentations at your event with services such as UStream, Justin.tv, Livestream and Collecta, you can add these to a tab on your Be In The Room event page.

Monitor Foursquare check-ins

Users of the social network Foursquare "check-in" to venues when they arrive. At your event you will be able to track check-ins and attendees will be able to see who they can connect with. All you need to do is add the "Foursquare venue link" of where your event is being held to your Be In The Room event listing.

To get your Foursquare venue link, simply go to Foursquare and search for the venue where your event is being held. If it's not there, sign up for a Foursquare account if you don't already have one and add the venue.

Once you locate or add you venue on Foursquare you will see the URL has venue and a number after that (e.g http://foursquare.com/venue/372688). All you need to do is copy the number and add it to the "Foursquare URL" field on your Be In The Room events page.

The Noticeboard

This is the place where your attendees can go to get brief updates of important need to knows before, during or after your event. Things like where to park, where is the closest train station, where are drinks tonight, all the essentials. Make sure attendees know if there is new information, it will be here and that they can subscribe via RSS to get the update straight away.

The Presentations

Upload the speaker presentations to Slideshare and share the links here.

The Videos

Share any videos taken at the event including speaker presentations, interviews or even the after party here.

The Ticket Sales

You can embed your ticket sales registration page on your Be In The Room event page by using a ticket sales widget. Read more about Eventbrite's Ticket Widget or contact your ticket sales provider to see if they offer this functionality. This is another simple step to bring all of your event related content together and make the experience seamless for your attendees.

What If….

My event is recurring

If your event is recurring you have a couple options with Be In The Room. You can list the event multiple times or mark the event as recurring by putting in all the dates that it is happening.

My event has already been listed

As Be In The Room depends on events being listed by the community, there is a possibility that someone else may have listed your event before you were able to do so. If this is the case contact us, we will verify you are the event organizer and transfer the account over to you, after introducing you to the helpful "roomer" that added it first.

Want to see something else or need help?

We are currently in beta after launching in June 2010. If there are features that you would like to see from Be In The Room, we would love to hear from you.

If you need advice on how to get started with any of the online tools listed above for your event, we would be happy to help. Contact us via Twitter, Facebook or email.