10 cheap and easy ways to amplify your event

In 2007 Lorcan Dempsey coined the phrase 'the amplified conference'. He used the term to refer to how event outputs (such as talks and presentations) were being amplified 'through a variety of network tools and collateral communications'. The term 'amplified event' is now fairly well recognised within the academic and cultural heritage sectors and is used as an umbrella expression for many practices and technologies that allow not only those external to an event to participate but also those who are actually there to get more out of the event. Brian Kelly's blog post Escaping the Constraints of Space and Time] explores the idea that such approaches can save "talks from the walled garden of the place and time at which they were given".