Keep your guests collaborating and attentive throughout your entire event. Also: LinkedIn’s latest addition aims to boost volunteerism.

Meeting planners are always challenged to find ways to keep their audience engaged with one another at events. But clever ideas abound, and we found some to share.

A few ideas on that front in today’s Social Media Roundup:

Embrace The Event Space

Four tactics for engaging and memorable corporate events in 2014 http://t.co/ZJkh4ZdLJo #eventprofs #meetingprofs

— OFFSITE (@goOFFSITE) January 15, 2014

The meetings industry is likely to expand even further in 2014 after event planners saw a 4 percent jump in attendance from 2012 to 2013. That means there’s plenty of room to coordinate innovative events to impress attendees. OFFSITE NYC features four ways to ensure corporate events offer something a little extra—and the tips fit the association space, too. One involves putting together an event that shows gratitude to existing clients; another highlights team-building activities that get your employees out of the office as they learn to collaborate better. Regardless of the event, your goal should be to keep your guests actively involved. (ht @goOFFSITE)

Looking for Volunteers

LinkedIn Adds Search for Volunteer Opportunities http://t.co/AAyjNXKKvg

— Mashable SocialMedia (@mashsocialmedia) January 15, 2014

Interested in giving back? LinkedIn can help. The professional network recently added a hub for its members seeking volunteer opportunities. Since August 2013, more than 600,000 people have shown interest in volunteering on their profiles, while more than 3 million have included volunteer experience in their profiles since 2011. Those numbers led to the creation of LinkedIn’s new Volunteer Marketplace, which includes more than 500 charitable opportunities for members to peruse. “Volunteering is not just good for the community, it’s good for your career,” Meg Garlinghouse, the head of LinkedIn Good, told Mashable’s Kurt Wagner. “That’s just another [reason] why we feel so bullish about making this a part of the LinkedIn experience.” For nonprofits on the lookout for new volunteers, this may be worth checking out: Posting volunteer opportunity listings on LinkedIn costs just 10 percent of the price of a standard job listing on the site. (ht @mashable)

How have you used networks like LinkedIn to boost your volunteer rolls? Let us know in the comments.

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