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72 Bizzabo – Event networking Google play https://play.google.com/store/apps/ details?id=com.bizzabo.client Bizzabo is an all-in-one event management software that helps organizers create successful events by empowering them to build amazing websites, sell tickets, grow communities, go mobile and maximize event experiences - using a beautiful, user friendly platform. For attendees helps discover future events and find out who else will attend, reach out to speakers, exhibitors straight from the app, access event agenda, location. 10times Google play https://play.google.com/store/apps/ details?id=com.tentimes Event discovery platform covering business events, tradeshows, conferences, workshops, seminars, expos. This app helps search for other professionals from the given industry, connect with them and build network. PUBLICATIONS / BOOKS / ARTICLES SOURCE Heding, Tilde, Charlotte F. Knudtzen, and Mogens Bjerre. Brand management: Research, theory and practice. Routledge, 2008 (book). Web Publication https://books.google.com.cy/ books?id=7QR9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=Extroversion+Techniques+branding&source=bl&ots=f1YCa8g9gz&sig=2GrXREUKOnzUHKYlLbJLdcLKBew&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj29uaRxa7NAhXIxRQKHfR2CU4Q6AEINDAD#v=onepage&q=Extroversion%20Techniques%20 branding&f=false For over two decades, it has been argued that the brand is an important value creator and should therefore be a top management priority. However, the definition of what a brand is remains elusive. This book observes in depth importand branding concepts and practices. McAlexander, James H., John W. Schouten, and Harold F. Koenig. “Building brand community.” Journal of marketing 66.1 (2002): 38-54 (book). Web Publication https://www.researchgate.net/ profile/John_Schouten/publication/230873898_Building_Brand_ Community/links/0fcfd505997ef695cc000000.pdf A brand community from a customer-experiential perspective is a fabric of relationships in which the customer is situated. Crucial relationships include those between the customer and the brand, between the customer and the firm, between the customer and the product in use, and among fellow customers. The authors delve ethnographically into a brand community and test key findings through quantitative methods. LINK BRIEF DESCRIPTION 73