RootsTech starts today at 7:00pm eastern time when the Expo Hall opens but the website is live now for you to start exploring. What will you be doing for the next 72 hours? RootsTech is more than just viewing classes. RootsTech is also an opportunity to talk to the experts in the field and find friends and relatives. The number of registered attendees is now over 501,000 people from 226 countries and territories. So, how do you converse with all these people at RootsTech? If you are registered for RootsTech and have a FamilySearch account you can use all of the various the chat functions.
The Expo Hall has virtual booths for nearly one hundred vendors from large companies like Ancestry to smaller groups such as Birth Parent Finder. Each exhibitor in the Expo Hall will have a "Chat with an expert" button that you can click to chat with the people who are working in the virtual booth. Once you click on that button, you will get a pop-up of all the staff that are present. From there you can click on one of the experts and ask them questions. Those questions will go into their direct message box and you should hear back from them soon. There is also the opportunity to join a chat room for that exhibitor so you can see what everyone else is talking about and ask additional questions. These chat rooms will also be monitored by the exhibitor but it may take a little longer to get a response due to the potentially large amount of traffic there.
Are you missing the opportunity to talk to the presenters? Well, each speaker will have their own chat room where participants can ask questions and discuss their topics. Some of the presenters will also participate in a 1-hour
RootsTech Connect Desktop Diner event where participants can join them in themed Zoom rooms and join in with live conversations. This event is scheduled for 4:00pm EST and is sponsored by the
Connections Experiment. This is your opportunity to meet with the presenters in a more personal setting compared to text messaging. You will need to
register in advance for this event. When you register you will receive an email with the calendar information and Zoom link.
If you want to chat with me for any of my topics you can use the links below. The chat rooms will be open throughout the conference and I will pop in frequently. Click on the titles below to visit the pages and click on the chat room link to join the chat for that topic. You will have to be logged into the RootsTech Conference site for these links to work.
You can also start your own chat room or direct message friends and associates who are registered for the conference. These are not private chats so others could find them in the search feature and join you but you can name the chat and invite your friends to join. Another way to find people is through the
Relatives at RootsTech site. You can select a relative or search for one and then send a message through your FamilySearch account discussions.
I hope to see you all there and be sure to pop in and visit me in one of my chat rooms.
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