Virtual Exhibitor Booths

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Virtual Exhibitor Booths

• Virtual Exhibitor Booths provide a year-round,
  virtual booth hosted on VMworld.com for your
  organization to display your virtualization
  offerings, materials and network with the
  community. Along with use of discussion forums,
  shared documents, podcasts, videos, photos,
  blogs, polls and RSS feeds, you can display your
  products, solutions, demos, webinars, success
  stories, events and more.
• Custom HTML and CSS can be used on your pages and
  configured to match your colors, styles and
  brand. Self-service tools and widgets are
  available to update your site with simple
  drag-n-drop editing.
• Instant access and visibility to our VMworld and
  VMware Communities members though cross-links,
  emails and promotions year-round and traffic
  spikes from 2 VMworld conferences per year U.S.
  and Europe.
• You virtual booth will be added to the Virtual
  Pavilion for visitors to explore along with other
  vendors and VMworld.com services. Members can
  move their avatars around the virtual conference
  and use tools such as live chat to network with
  others. We will be introducing a 3-D Virtual
  Pavilion and 3-D Virtual Booths for exhibitors
  very soon.

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3-D Virtual Pavilion Virtual Booths (coming
soon)

• New and existing virtual exhibitors will be part
  of this. These 3-D virtual booths can be
  customized to suit the needs of your company,
  based on your Virtual Exhibitor level.

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Current Virtual Pavilion

• Existing Virtual Exhibitor Booths in our Virtual
  Pavilion

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Inside the VMware Virtual Booth

• Lets go to the VMware Genius Bar

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Inside the VMware Virtual Booth Genius Bar

• Inside an exhibitors customized site, visitors
  can post questions/discussions, share live chat
  and explore videos, documents, blogs, promos,
  events or any community resources made available.

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Inside the VMware Virtual Exhibitor Booth

• Now lets explore VMworld Sessions Labs

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Inside the VMworld Sessions Labs Room

• VMworld Sessions Labs one example of the many
  virtualization content areas and services
  available on VMworld.com for visitors to explore

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Virtual Exhibitor Booth Content

• Virtual Booths allow for immediate Discussions,
  Documents and Blogs

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Customizing page layout and content

• Simply drag-and-drop community widgets into your
  page to fill with content and community services
  for your company.

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Year-Round Traffic Sources
VMworld Conferences (U.S.)
VMworld Conferences (Europe)
VMworld Sessions Labs Over 10k downloads per
week
VMware.com Communities 3/4 million members
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VMworld.com Services to Leverage for Virtual
Booths
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Participate in Live Chat with others
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Next Steps

• Learn about Virtual Exhibitor Levels and pricing
• http//www.vmworld.com/docs/DOC-2754
• Request a Virtual Exhibitor Booth at
• http//www.vmworld.com/community/exhibitors/partn
  er_contact.jspa
• Virtual Booth Example
• http//www.vmworld.com/community/exhibitors/vmwar
  e/
• More information is available at
  http//www.vmworld.com/community/exhibitors/