Thanks to all the speakers, bureaus, event planners, and end-users who have graciously given us their feedback on the online tools that will be helpful to support the professional speaker industry.  From your ideas (and some of our own), we have developed plans for two new products.

The first, which is now in development, is called “Dialog”.  It will be a tool that speakers or event organizers can use to start or maintain an online conversation with their audiences before or after an event.

Some of the features include:

• integration with Twitter so that you are also giving fans the opportunity to “follow” you and increase the reach of your message
• a short URL that links directly to your page so you can give it out at an event
• rating and feedback so that you can learn what is working and not working for continuous improvement

We hope to launch the Dialog product in alpha this summer.  If you are interested in being part of the initial launch, please comment on this post with your contact info.  We will very likely be providing free accounts to our first users.

Stay tuned for more info here and on Twitter through @spkrinteractive