Slideshare Helps Conference Organizers and Speakers
2 comments so farNo secret we love Slideshare. From today we love the service even more for a couple of powerful reasons.
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Slideshare, the popular community for presentation junkies, recently introduced few new initiatives and features which got us hooked up heavily, if you’d allow the euphemism.
Let’s see:
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Are You Listening?
1 comment so farFew months ago we were talking about Meetups, user generated events and about getting back networking.
As part of the late venture with amiando, we sparked a series of user generated events across the world, to display the power of our online community.
Obviously clever people were listening, they implemented what we pioneered and are now getting great successes.
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We feel good about it, because we creatively shared that.
Good News
Good news is that we are sharing right now as we speak and we are way forward compared to what’s going on right now. It’s a fact.
Leave us alone
We strongly suggest you unsubscribe from this blog if you are perpetrating practices of a distant past.
On the other hand, if you like challenges we have few suggestions for you:
- We think that Pecha Kucha is the way to go.
- We think that technology should be part of the present event industry as it increases streams of revenue while decreasing intangibility of the event in itself.
Start now
If you read this blog you are well aware of new trends and whatever is going on with Event Planning 2.0, but make sure:
- You read most of it, search categories and get out of your comfort zone.
- Interact, commenting on each post.
- Engage in our communities, specially on Linkedin where we are more than 6500 (yeah you remember when we were 400).
- Get in touch directly with Julius, if you want targeted guidance with your project.
10 Applications your Event Needs
8 comments so farAs anticipated the webinar for Nielsen & co. was great yesterday.
Here are the slides for my presentation. If you attended and had questions, now the time to comment.
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Update: Here’s a transcript of the presentation. Click here for the pdf.
85+ tools to manage projects
27 comments so farEvents are indeed projects or at least they should be managed as such.
Here is yet another free list that will help you to be more productive.
Remember to save it in your del.icio.us for future reference and to let others know through StumbleUpon.
Project Management Software
- Vitalist
- Redmine
- Qtask
- Basecamp
- WhoDoes
- GanttPV
- Faces
iMacworld and your next event
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IDG, who is organizing Macworld 2009, released v1.1 of iMacworld, a dedicated iPhone app for the expo. Do you need to start thinking about mobile apps for your next event?
You should hate technology. If you work with events you should really despise it as the worst of your competitor.
The problem with technology is that it evolves rapidly. With rapid evolution, users’ demands and expectations grow accordingly.
Technology is your fiercest enemy. Or is it?
Not in my opinion. I only see room for better experiences, up-selling opportunities and cross-selling chances. Technology is tangible, your event is not.
Macworld is already a success. Rumours have spread weeks in advance. They set up a community, they are well integrated with major social networking sites.
What really captured my attention was the dedicated free iPhone app that came from organizers, iMacworld (link to iTunes).
I already talked few times about how iPhones are very helpful to be more organized and productive.
IDG did a great job and released an update of the app with interesting features:
As Zdnet explains:
The Exhibitor tab gives you an alphabetical list of exhibitors which you can scroll through or you can jump right to the first letter in the company name via the letters down the right hand side. You can also search by booth number and by hall. One thing that’s missing is an open text search.
The Products tab allows you to scroll through lists by name, exhibitor and by category and the Sessions tab allows you to locate conference sessions by day, track, room and speaker.
The Messaging feature rounds out tabs across the bottom of the UI and provides updates from IDG about the show and the iPhone.
Now this is something I’d like to see at every event I will attend in the future.
I’d like to be informed as a participant, I’d like to get my name out there as an exhibitor.
As time goes by, I would stop appreciating the chance of it and start requiring it. This is what you have to deal with today.
I love technology.
