ZoomPool Teams Up with Eventbrite

 This post is by Julius Solaris, your Editor in Chief. He is @tojulius on twitter . Meet the rest of the team!

RSVP management tools and carpooling was a match made in heaven. Interesting developments in the RSVP market!

News is that Eventbrite (which is a great RSVP management tool) and Zoompool (a ridesharing platform) have teamed up.

I guess it was a quite obvious integration path as introducing a ‘Mark Read’ button in Gmail, which, in the same fashion, took way too long.

This is a strong move by Eventbrite in the overcrowded Online RSVP market. I am very curious to see what amiando the European counterpart and my personal favourite will do. In the meanwhile here is the press release.

“Events are a great candidate for ridesharing because attendees generally aim to arrive and leave at roughly the same time,” said Donna Horne, ZoomPool’s co-founder.

“If you’re an event organizer who uses Eventbrite for your conference, business seminar, arts, entertainment or charity event, it makes perfect sense to offer ridesharing to your attendees. It boosts attendance and they’ll love you for it.

As an event attendee, ridesharing with a perfectly matched partner is a great opportunity to make a new social or business acquaintance — who knows where that might lead?”

Can You Bring Your Event to My Mobile?

 This post is by Julius Solaris, your Editor in Chief. He is @tojulius on twitter . Meet the rest of the team!

If you can’t, you should think about it. It’s free after all…

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Mobiles are not like Desktops or Notebooks. Of course it’s all technology. What differs is the degree of emotional involvement we have with them, as well as the extreme mobility.

Perception

Mobiles are indeed more personal. We store our family, friends and important business contacts there. It’s the people we want to talk to, it’s our real contacts. It’s not the hundred people we follow on twitter or the junior high classmate on Facebook.

The personal connotation we have with mobile phones sets apart every activity we do with them. Your family is more important than your acquaintances. Think of your mobile as a member of your family and of your Notebook/Desktop as a random acquaintance or a colleague. Who would you trust more?

The Rush to Mobile Applications

We are experiencing an unprecedented rush to mobile technology. The 1 Billion iPhone Apps downloads in 9 months mark and the move from Nokia and Vodafone to open their own application stores are the most prominent examples.
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Will Telepresence Change the Meetings Industry?

   This post is by Kena – She is @KenaSiu on twitter. Meet the rest of the team!

Telepresence is reshaping the world of telecoferencing, with a real time rendering hard to match.

What is Telepresence?

Telepresence is a group of technologies aimed at connecting people far apart instantly with a superbly real time rendering. It consists on a combination of multiple high-definition monitors, cameras, microphones, speakers and custom-made studios. It brings the concept of a video conference forward, revolutionizing interaction.

What’s the trend?

According to Frost & Sullivan Telepresence will grow immensely through 2013 due to the use of new technologies and the need to be connected with colleagues, partners and customers in an instant offering a great human interaction.

Who offers it?

There are several corporations inn the market such a Cisco, Hewlett-Packard (Halo), Telanetix (Video Telepresence), Polycom or Sony (3D Telepresence). Since the need of connectivity keeps growing constantly several organizations like Marriott and Starwood hotels have already made partnership with vendors to improve their business offering.

Benefits

Besides giving the illusion of being in the same room, capturing the body language and giving less exhaustion to users, Telepresence offers much more benefits such as:

- Real time connectivity
- Instant connection
- Sharp sound
- Quality, size and clarity of images
- Doesn’t bother and stress with unwanted latency
- Increases productivity
- Enhances communication

Tell us about your experience

Have you used Telepresence in your meetings? How do you think it will affect the industry?

10 Stress Free Tools to Broadcast Your Event

Did you check until page 15 of your Google Search results to find the best tools to stream events online with no luck? Here is a list of the easy to use, solution oriented tools. Most of them require few steps to get you up and running.

No excuses then, start broadcasting your event now!

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Oovoo is a video calling service. No difference from Skype there. Although a great, recently introduced functionality is the Video Chat Room.

You can create a room for your event, grab the code and embed it in your event blog/website. Access can be manged by password and you can promote the streaming by simply sharing a link.

Flixwagon is a great mobile streaming alternative. With a twist. It gives you the direct upload to Youtube functionality you were dying for.

Now that you told your attendees about your customized Youtube Channel, you will get a lot of user generated content to increase awareness of your event.

Yaika stands out for its simplicity of use. It serves the same purpose of the most popular broadcasting clients, but with easiness embedded. We loved the chance of hosting an audio only channel.
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twitter Enters Presentations

Keynotetweet is a major step toward online/offline integration, with a touch of twitter coolness.

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The much discussed role of twitter during presentations, led us to believe that some piece of software was soon to be released.

And there we go, keynotetweet has appeared. It is an open source Applescript that syncs with Keynote and sends a tweet of the notes associated with a slide when that particular slide comes up on the screen.
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